King Ayisoba | Good Thing God Knows

Описание: 'Good Thing God Knows'
Written & Performed by King Ayisoba
Live Session at De Kerk, Amsterdam - The Netherlands 2019.
https://kingayisoba.net

King Ayisoba
Ghana’s ancient empire and the 21st century global express. The rhythms
that created the past alongside the beats forging the present. In King
Ayisoba, they all converge. Everything morphing into one. And on his new
album, 1000 Can Die, they stand together, history and today, side by
side. The tradition hewn from the future.

King Ayisoba was born in 1974 in Bongo Soe, Bongo area, Upper East
Region, Ghana, near Bolgatanga. He grew up in a small village and as a
boy he always had his kologo with him whenever he took the family sheep
and cattle out to graze. He played at markets, local bars and funerals
until he was old enough to leave the region and try his songs on the
people in big cities like Kumasi and Accra.

A useful musical collaboration started between him and the late Terry
Bonchaka, a hip life artist from Accra. Bonchaka’s early death was a big
setback to King Ayisoba but linking up with recording engineer and music
producer Panji Anoff turned his fortunes around. The work of the two
resulted in a first cassette and cd in 2006 called “Modern Ghanaians”.
It contains songs with the flavor and spice of the modern hip life mixed
with Ayisoba’s traditional style. The single “I want to see you my
father” became a huge hit and in 2007 King Ayisoba was crowned the king
in the Ghana Music Awards Festival held at the national theatre as part
of Ghana’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

In 2008 “Africa”, King Ayisoba’s second album was released on Pidgen
Music. Again a mix of electronic beat driven tracks and traditional
style songs like the hit “The Whole World”. In 2005 King Ayisoba was
invited for a project in Chicago, USA and since 2009 King Ayisoba has
been a regular seen artist in Europe. He was invited by the Sababas
project from Denmark and played on the Womex festival caravan. The
following years he returned to Denmark and also played in Germany and
Switzerland.

In 2012 King Ayisoba joined Dutch artist Zea on a tour through the
Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany and at the end of
that tour the plan was made to release an LP with Ayisoba’s best songs,
called “Modern Ghanaians”. In December 2012 King Ayisoba was nominated
in the category best traditional song at the Okura African Music Awards
in Abudjan, Cote d’Ivoire. In March 2013 King Ayisoba made his entrance
in Russia and in May 2013 King Ayisoba returned to Europe with his own
band from Ghana to promote the release of the LP on Zea’s own Makkum
Records (MR 8) and to let as many people as possible hear the kologo
music from Northern Ghana. The compilation received raving reviews all
over Europe. What followed was a large tour of more than forty concerts
along festivals and venues in Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium,
France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Czech Republic. And King Ayisoba
left the people wanting more.
So in March 2014 King Ayisoba returned with a full band of musicians and
dancers and toured together with Zea all over Europe including the UK.
In June 2014 the full band returned for the summer festivals including
Roskilde Festival in Denmark and the Fusion Festival in Germany. Just
before that tour his new album called “Wicked Leaders” was released on
Makkum Records (MR 11). In October 2014 King Ayisoba did a full tour all
over the UK and played the London Africa Festival. IN March 2015 the
Wicked Leaders album was released in France by Mansa Live Productions
and followed by a three weeks tour. On April six King Ayisoba won for
the second time in his career the Ghana Music Award for best traditional
song for the song “Mbhee” from the Wicked Leaders album. March 2016 King
Ayisoba came back on tour promoting a new compilation he put together
called “This is Kologo Power!”, and in the summer more festivals in
Europe have seen and heard the hypnotic kologo grooves. In the meantime
the band recorded new songs in a studio in The Netherlands with Zea. The
new album, called “1000 Can Die” was be released by Glitterbeat Records
in 2017. Up to 2020 King Ayisoba has toured the world, including China,
Zouth Korea, Canada and Australia.

https://kingayisoba.net


Video by
Alek Riquelme
Rob Gradisen
Susy Vilchez
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Audio by Polyganger
Daan Duurland
Moreno Hogervorst
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filmed at De Kerk
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thanks to Katzwijm Studios
https://katzwijm.com