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king ayisoba - wicked leaders - makkum records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: African - Ghana

1. Bayeti Boi
2. Wicked Leaders
3. Sunsua
4. Yele Mengire Nbo Se'ena (Election Song)
5. Akolbire feat. Zea
6. Mbhee feat. Mbo, Banasko & Isaac
7. Asa'ala Daandera
8. Weene Ma'le Wane
9. Abeleywine
10. Song For Peace

King Ayisoba is a star in Ghana. He comes from the upper East Region of Ghana and went to Accra to play his kologo and sing his songs.

The kologo is a two string guitar-like instrument with a calabash gourd resonator that sounds melodic and percussive at the same time. Right away he changed the Accra music scene by using traditional instruments together with the hip life (a style that emerged in Ghana in the mid-?90s and contains hip hop and dance hall elements) beats and bass. King Ayisoba sings about daily life, about fathers who should take care of their children and about politicians who should stop doing the bad thing. The blues of the future seems to come from the North, the north of Ghana, so it seems.

Ghana Gazette, 2007:
King Ayisoba's, ?Modern Ghanaians? is the fastest selling cassette by an artist from the Northern part of Ghana. The albums popularity started in Bolgatanga where the artist is from, but has spread through the other regions like harmattann bushfire. Singing in English, Twi, Frafra, King Ayisoba's struck a chord with the Ghanaian audience and has embraced his 2-string traditional guitar (Kologo) with great passion.