King Ayisoba & EKE at Café de Ceuvel

Friday July 18th: 19:00 @ Café de Ceuvel: EKE, Harald Austbø, King Ayisoba and band.

A few weeks ago The Job played at the opening of a wonderful new place in Amsterdam Noord: De ceuvel.
Friday the 18th we are organizing another event there with EKE playing. Cellist Harald Austbø will play a solo set. The headliner will be King Ayisoba and band. Zea largely responsible for bringing this band all the way from Ghana will perform a DJ set bringing more music from all the world.
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King Ayisoba and band
This is the traditional kologo music from the Upper East Region of
Ghana brought with the energy and flavor of the twenty first century.
King Ayisoba sings in Frafra, Twi and in English and is a big star in
Ghana. There is a whole new scene now starting after King Ayisoba
introduced the super catchy kologo beats to the bigger audiences in
Ghana and abroad. The kologo is a two string guitar with a calabash
gourd resonator, it is rhythmic and melodic at the same time. The King
is bringing other musicians and dancers on this tour, dancing the
traditional Frafra dia and kologo dances from the area of Bongo in
Northern Ghana. The dance consists of very high jumbs and originates
from hunting rituals. Aboku Adortanga (dancer and dorgo player) is
King Ayisoba’s brother and is a master in playing the “Dorgo”, a
special horn from Northern Ghana used in the traditional Frafra
tradition of music. The sound resembles a lamb calling out loud and
was original used by the Frafra people in the forest to gather the
village people to come and hunt. Gemeka is an absolute master in
playing the guluku, a local drum from Bolgatanga Soko in Northern
Ghana. Since a few years the young Dagaati has been part of King
Ayisoba?s band. At first he came to the concerts and kept coming and
telling Ayisoba he could play Ayisoba?s songs on his xylophone. This
is not normal since Dagaati comes from the Dagaati region which is
upper west in Ghana. But the addition of the xylophone to the kologo,
drums and voice works fantastic and Dagaati became a core musician of
King Ayisoba?s band and it is already hard to imagine how the band
sounded without this very talented young man.

Traditionaly kologo performances occur at local pito bars, weddings,
funerals, festivals or spontaneous jams on the street. Today we will
see the force and spirit here, around the corner, learn wise lessons
and dig up the future.