Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy

In the organizer's words:

Polyrhythm Frafra Gospel concert at KESSELHAUS

When drummer, ethno-funk pioneer and founder of the Philophon label Max Weissenfeldt moved from Berlin to Ghana in 2010, he had no idea that a single song would catapult him into a completely new musical world. At the dusty bus station in Bolgatanga, he heard a mystical, hypnotic melody - and had to know who was behind it. The trail led to Alogte Oho, a singer who sang Frafra gospel with an intensity that went deep into the heart. Weissenfeld, obsessed with this sound, met Oho and recorded the song "Zota Yinne" with him - a magical moment that achieved cult status in reggae and Afrobeat circles worldwide. An album followed with "Mam Yinne Wa", and soon Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy were touring the world. Weissenfeldt has added thick reggae basses, Korg sounds, gyrating rhythms and dub effects to Oho's pentatonic chants, an unheard-of fusion built from set pieces that the drummer picked up somewhere between New Orleans, Kingston and Addis Ababa.
Cultural appropriation? Not when you realize that music from Africa has always made use of all kinds of sources, borrowing from Cuban rumba, jazz, soul and even country and playing a great hybrid import-export game across the Black Atlantic. As a producer, Weissenfeld, like Jimi Tenor, does not stand here as a usurper who appropriates a sound, but as an enabler and trickster.
Most recently, the Alogte Oho album "O Yinne!", which he also produced, was released. - a powerful mix of frafra gospel, vintage highlife, pulsating rhythms, proto-reggae and other great global sounds. A celebration of life, music - and an unlikely encounter that changed everything.

Price information:

B.O. € 25,00 / VVK € 23,85