AGEGE ZONE 6 (2 vinyls)

Description

K.O.G.’s FIRST SOLO ALBUM After his first album ‘Wahala Wahala’ with Zongo Brigade, his Onipa project and his many features (Nubiyan Twist, Screamshire, Mawimbi, Afriquoi...), K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) returns with a new solo album produced by Guts and Tom Excell. Zongo Brigade, Onipa, All Star Revolution, RiddimtionSound, several groups but one and the same guiding thread: K.O.G. Kweku Of Ghana. While he varies the contours of his music, and at the same time his own, the real Kweku reveals himself little. Or not at all. Comfortable behind his multiple identities that protect him, he who rarely tells his story has, this time, decided to lower the energy gauge in favor of real sincerity, even if it means appearing more fragile. Zone 6, Agege. Accra suburb. The neighborhood of his childhood. Instantly, that is where his past takes him when he closes his eyes. In each of the musical styles he has explored and set ablaze, Kweku has made Africa circulate. Rock, jazz, funk, hip hop, soul, all have become African under his assaults. Today, it is in Africa that he brings them all back. Here where he makes them meet the traditional music he has reconnected with. Chaloupe under the highlife guitars and their electronic programming, finds nature again, returns to the church of his childhood for a soul-gospel alongside Anthony Joseph. The electricity that continuously powered his body now only feeds the keyboards, the basses and the six strings. The brass comes to caress the syncopations and the percussion that Kweku sometimes settles for, for the duration of a ‘call and response’ with a choir of voices. He now converses with the elders as much as with departed souls in a thick reggae-dub fog. Meditates, absorbs spirituality, lifts his mind to make it travel very far. "AN EXPLOSIVE AFRO-FUSION COCKTAIL WITH CONTAGIOUS GROOVE!" " --- NOVA ---" K.O.G distills afrobeat, reggae and funk with crazy energy for the sole and unique purpose of making you dance. " --- PAM - PAN AFRICAN MUSIC ---