Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy (GH) at ALICE på Stairway // Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023

Thu Jul 06 2023 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

ALICE cph | Lyngby

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Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy (GH) at ALICE p\u00e5 Stairway \/\/ Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023
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Kom til rødglødende dansefest med mesteren af groovy ghanesisk gospel!
Frafra-regionen i det nordlige Ghana er centrum for et boblende gospelmiljø, og Alogte Oho er den suveræne mester inden for sin genre. Karismatisk lovsynger han Herren på en bund af vuggende reggaerytmer og sprudlende kvindekor, iblandet lokale fortolkninger af funk og soul samt traditionel ghanesisk musik. Alogte Oho skabte en gigantisk dansefest på Roskilde Festival sidste sommer, og vi gør kunsten efter, når vi præsenterer ham og hans groovende band som en del af Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023.
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Kvindekor, varme blæsere, boblende keyboards og en uforlignelig musikalitet er opskriften på en stensikker dansefest. Alogte Oho er den fremmeste musiker inden for Frara-gospel, som nyder en eksplosiv opblomstring i Bolgatanga i det nordlige Ghana. Han karismatiske sangforedrag ledsages af et usædvanligt kraftfuldt kvindekor, som kalder sig the Sounds of Joy og består af Lizzy Amaliyenga, Patricia Adongo og Florence Adooni, der alle også er stærke gospel-solister i deres egen ret. Hør eksempelvis ørehængeren “Doose Mam”, som med sjælfuldt repetitive rytmer og en jublende vokal-linje byder alle kroppens celler op til dans.
Alogte Ohos karriere var længe et kendt navn i lokale miljøer. Den tyske musiker, producer og musik-kender Max Weissenfeldt opdagede Alogte Ohos lyd, da han rejste i Ghana, hvilket hurtigt resulterede i en pladekontrakt på Weissenfeldts label Philophon. Første single herfra var den solbeskinnede reggae-hjerteknuser “Zota Yinne” fra 2014, og i 2019 kom den første internationalt udsendte plade, “Mam Yinne Wa”.
Alogte Oho gør sig i musik med et kirkeligt ophav. På sin personlige musikalske rejse opdagede Alogte Oho selv musikken via sang og musik i den lokale landsbykirke, hvor han trådte sine barnesko som korsanger. Alogte Oho åbner dørene på vid gab for gospelgenren og lader en masse forskellige påvirkninger strømme ind i sin stærkt medrivende musik: Lige fra traditionelle ghanesisk musiktraditioner til vestafrikanske funk- og soulfortolkninger, vuggende reggae og en musikalitet, der kan forvandle enhver situation til en fest. Glæd dig til at opleve gospel-mesteren og hans gruppe live.
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A charismatic figure of the local gospel scene in the Frafra region of Northern Ghana, Alogte Oho invites you to praise the Lord through highly infectious grooves, laid-back reggae rhythms, traditional Ghanese music, and ecstatically joyous women’s choir. Alogte Oho set the crowd on fire with his intoxicating performance at last year’s Roskilde Festival, and we are looking forward to dancing to the grooves again at ALICE at Stairway. The concert is a part of Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023.
At first, Alogte Oho’s career was moving along in relatively small steps. Neither his first locally released cassette, put out in 2007 when he had just turned twentyone, or his 2010 follow up album, had yielded the successes he yearned for. As a consequence he became desperate to make a living through music and was close to giving up when his life took a dramatic turn. One day, Oho was riding his motorbike through the chaotic traffic of Ghana’s capital Accra and daydreaming about the possibilities better future. While distracted, he was suddenly hit by a car and suffered serious injuries, almost losing his life. The accident left him confined to hospital for about two months. After the shock was gone, he was lieing in his hospital bed when he became aware of a divine protection that had kept him alive. His first clear thought was ‘Mam Yinne Wa’ (God, You Love Me So). He suddenly started to hum a melody and the song ‘Mam Yinne Wa’ was born. The first thing he did once he had fully recovered with a new motivation to continue with music, was to run to the studio to record his new song. It instantly became a big hit among his people, the Frafra, and suddenly Alogte was the top Frafra-Gospel artist.
‘Mam Yinne Wa’ is also the title of Alogte’s first debut internationally released album on Philophon. As always, Alogte is accompanied his cheerful choir, The Sounds of Joy. The album opens up with a newly recorded version of ‘Mam Yinne Wa’, which saw a 7“ release on Philophon back in 2016 and helped Alogte become an internationally recognised artist. Over the course of nine tracks, Oho takes the listener on a journey to the very unique world of Frafra-Gospel. The songs demonstrates just how he came to be such a universally loved artist in his hometown of Bolgatanga in northern Ghana. Lilting from low slung reggae based numbers like ‘Alema Timba’ and ‘La Ta’aba’ to more upbeat songs like ‘Sandana Fom’ and the album’s title track, which are played in traditional local rhythms. Throughout the album Oho and his Sounds of Joy deliver the Lord’s gospel in soothing Frafra tones.
Berlin-based Philophon founder Max Weissenfeldt handles the arrangement and production duties on the album. An extensive cast of mainly German musicians delicately compliment Oho and his Sounds of Joy’s life affirming vocal performances. Weissenfeldt’s production and arrangement, while musically intricate and complex, leaves the vocalists with plenty of room to clearly deliver Oho’s Frafra gospel. The album stays well and truly grounded in the Ghanaian (more specifically, Frafra) musical heritage while sounding remarkably contemporary, managing to make delicate flute lines sound right at home next to wildly bleeping synthesizers.
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