Aziz Ibrahim

Aziz Ibrahim on the cover of his debut album, Lahore to Longsight.

Aziz Ibrahim is a British musician. He was born in Longsight, Manchester to Pakistani parents. He is best known for his work as guitarist with Simply Red, The Stone Roses (post-John Squire)^[1] and their former vocalist Ian Brown in whose support band he regularly performs – both in the studio and live. He is also a member of the H Band with Marillion's Steve Hogarth and is involved in the writing of the second H Band album. He has also worked with Asia and contributed to The Players' debut album Clear the Decks. At the moment he currently plays guitar for Our Fold.

Our Fold are an indie rock band from Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.^[2] They are signed to Glasgow label Dset Records and are due to release their debut album Sick of Normal Life in the first quarter of 2011.^[2] They are a four piece band which consists of Damien Riley who is the frontman and also plays guitar, bass player Dan McLaren, drummer Ryan Ambler and Aziz.^[3]

Ibrahim's first release was the CD EP 'Middle Road' featuring guest vocals and guitar from Paul Weller. Ibrahim also provided the vocals for Weller's spoken word song entitled God, on his 2008 album, 22 Dreams along with guitars for previous Paul Weller releases, e.g. Illumination. He followed that with his début album entitled Lahore to Longsight, which he describes as being 'Asian Blues', the album title describes his family journey from Lahore to Longsight, Lahore being the second city of Pakistan and Longsight Aziz's birth place in inner city Manchester, where he still lives.

Most notably, Ibrahim was the guitarist for the last Stone Roses performance before they split, at the 1996 Reading Festival. After their split Ibrahim continued to tour and write with former Stone Roses front man Ian Brown, co-writing songs such as My Star, Corpses in Their Mouths, Longsight M13, One Way Ticket to Paradise and numerous other songs from Unfinished Monkey Business, Golden Greats, Solarized and The Greatest.

Ibrahim also scored the music for the Psygnosis PlayStation game Eliminator. The music in the game features electric guitars with wah effects, acoustic and electronic drum kits and percussion, and techno sounds.

Ibrahim co-founded "No Label" – the name initially came from Ibrahim in a rant about major record labels, how he didn't need them and would start his own label and call it 'No Label Records'. The label was initially formed with co-directors John Sherrington, Nova Rehman and employing Ahsan Naeem as A&R scout. After No Label was established in Bolton, Ibrahim later took a back seat to the set up concentrating on his music. the labels' first release was the début single 'Middle Road" from Aziz Ibrahim followed by the signing of Mark Coyle group 'Tailgunner'. No Label was liquidated in 2000. After the demise of No Label, Ibrahim founded a Longsight Manchester based label Indus Records Ltd.^[4]

References

1. ^ Warshaw, Aaron. "Biography: Aziz Ibrahim". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p248669. Retrieved 16 April 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Our Fold draw closer to album release (From The Bolton News)". Theboltonnews.co.uk. 17 June 2010. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/leisure/boltonmusic/8220052.Our_Fold_draw_closer_to_album_release/. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 
3. ^ . http://www.kendalcalling.co.uk/artists/view/our-fold. 
4. ^ Poole, Lawrence (2003) "Aziz, Denise Johnson, Leon Maya @ The Lateroom", City Life, 13 September 2003, retrieved 24 June 2010

External links

• Aziz – official website
• Aziz on Myspace

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