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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Alostmen - Kologo ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Alostmen ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Kologo ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Ethnic CAT#....[ STRUT234 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Strut ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 56:59 REL.DATE[ 01.29.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 14 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 130,64 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Kologo 04:28 ████ ████ 02 Teach Me 03:57 ████ ████ 03 Fauziah 03:19 ████ ████ 04 Minus Me 04:26 ████ ████ 05 Do Good 03:47 ████ ████ 06 Bayiti 05:25 ████ ████ 07 Carry Me Go 04:00 ████ ████ 08 Tanga 04:59 ████ ████ 09 Killer Fear Die 04:10 ████ ████ 10 Lorogo 03:26 ████ ████ 11 Atubga 03:33 ████ ████ 12 Baba 03:13 ████ ████ 13 Teach Me (Original Ghana Mix) 03:52 ████ ████ 14 Minus Me (Original Ghana Mix) 04:24 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 56:59 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://bleep.com/release/206260-alostmen- ████ ████ kologo ████ ████ ████ ████ ôKologo there before my mother, kologo music be ████ ████ the rootàö ████ ████ ████ ████ Strut present the brand new album from ████ ████ Alostmen, led by Stevo Atambire, a band at the ████ ████ forefront of kologo music in Ghana. ████ ████ ████ ████ Formed by Stevo and Wanlov The Kubolor (FokÆn ████ ████ Bois) at the suggestion of co-producer Percy ████ ████ Yip Tong, AlostmenÆs music is based around the ████ ████ Frafra traditions of the kologo, a stringed ████ ████ lute and uses purely traditional ████ ████ instrumentation in entirely new ways. ôI always ████ ████ like to do something ôoutö with my instrument, ████ ████ I like to force it to work,ö explains Stevo. ████ ████ ôIÆm a youtÆman and into different kinds of ████ ████ music: commercial, rap music, reggae, Malian ████ ████ sounds. I add all of it to the bandÆs sound in ████ ████ different ways.ö Wanlov continues, ôThe kologo ████ ████ is traditionally played a certain way but Stevo ████ ████ will play it at the shortest end of bridge and ████ ████ accentuate, almost Hendrix-style! He plays with ████ ████ a pedal sometimes and can keep it an octave ████ ████ down with a bass sound. He has evolved the ████ ████ instrument in his own way.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ôI had been touring with Stevo in my band Afro ████ ████ Gypsy in 2017,ö Wanlov continues, ôand we began ████ ████ recording the tracks for this album on the road ████ ████ during one of our last tours to Uganda and the ████ ████ upper North West region of Ghana. I had a ████ ████ mobile studio unit and recorded him in his ████ ████ hotel rooms, in closets, wherever we could find ████ ████ that sounded good.ö The band comprises Jo ████ ████ Ajusiwine, a brilliant goje (two-string fiddle) ████ ████ player and singer, talking drummer Aminu Amadu ████ ████ who has played in AmbolleyÆs highlife band and ████ ████ Sowah who plays heavy Ga rhythms on the gome ████ ████ box, djembe and conga. I play the kologo and ████ ████ give people the message. We donÆt need anything ████ ████ else!ö Stevo and Wanlov also invited selected ████ ████ guests to join the album sessions. Ambolley ████ ████ himself features on the driving æMinus MeÆ ████ ████ while one of StevoÆs childhood friends and a ████ ████ national star, Yaa Pono, appears on the ████ ████ yearning æFauziahÆ. ôWe just chose the right ████ ████ tracks for different guests and it all fit ████ ████ naturally,ö continues Stevo. Medikal was a ████ ████ really nice guy with good vibes, now also a ████ ████ major artist, Villy is a great Nigerian singer ████ ████ based in Ghana and Eli Muzik has an unusual ████ ████ operatic vocal style. We play with him a lot. ████ ████ We didnÆt just use ænamesÆ, just people that ████ ████ were great at their craft.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ The band call themselves Alostmen ôbecause we ████ ████ were lost in the street, the forgotten people,ö ████ ████ explains Stevo. ôMy people listen closely to my ████ ████ lyrics so I never just sing anything. People at ████ ████ home see music as a teaching so I always try to ████ ████ send a good message. I talk of this region, how ████ ████ they used to live and what they experience ████ ████ today. I try to bring development, peace and ████ ████ unity to the community, to give them hope to ████ ████ achieve.ö Wanlov continues: ôThe language of ████ ████ the music is Frafra, a Guruna language. The ████ ████ Frafra people are semi-nomadic, they deal with ████ ████ herds of cattle, they practice goje, kologo and ████ ████ a type of flute. The kologo players are similar ████ ████ to griots. Having already played dates across ████ ████ West Africa and Europe, Alostmen continue their ████ ████ journey with their superb debut album, ████ ████ æKologoÆ, out on 29th January 2021, The album ████ ████ was mixed by DrumTalk and mastered at The ████ ████ Carvery. Cover artwork is courtesy of Lewis ████ ████ Heriz. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. 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