Name Ayad Adhamy Role Instrumentalist | ||
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Website Black Bell RecordsPassion Pit Similar People Ian Hultquist, Jeff Apruzzese, Team Spirit, Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit | ||
Ayad Al Adhamy of Passion Pit drinking Tequila
Ayad Al Adhamy (Arabic: إياد الأعظمي) is an American multi-instrumentalist, producer and record label owner based in Brooklyn New York. He is the former synthesizer, sample, and percussion player of Passion Pit, and shared remix duties with Nate Donmoyer and Ian Hultquist.
He currently fronts the Brooklyn garage rock outfit Team Spirit, signed to Vice Records/Warner Bros. Records. They released their Self Titled Debut EP on April 4, 2013, and it was received positively. (Rolling Stone) Coupled with the EP, is an ongoing extreme-animated series of music videos, created by Swedish Animation Duo HannesJohannes about "...the idea of Damnation and Salvation."
In 2010, Ayad Al Adhamy, started Black Bell Records, an independent record label that released the debut EP of The Joy Formidable and singles by Dom, Girlfriends, Pretty & Nice and Reptar. Full Length releases include Secret Music, Stepdad and Guards.
Ayad Al Adhamy is an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music (2009). He is an official endorsed artist of Moog, Dave Smith and Korg instruments.