O Yinne! by Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy
Deliriously fun and funky Afro-Electronic-Gospel-Jazz-Roots music
With Max Weissenfeldt (Poets of Rhythm and Whitefield Brothers) on production duties, the Frafra gospel artist Alogte Oho is joined by a team of studio and live players, including the gospel choir Sounds of Joy (Lizzy Amaliyenga, Patricia Adongo and Florence Adooni) for a seriously good second album comprising their distinctive take on West African Gospel music.
The gospel choir singing, which is reminiscent of the trombones of Jericho in intensity, is the brand core of the group alongside the melodic brass interjections, the flashing synthesizer accents and the heavily grooving rhythm section. However, anyone who thinks of what is commonly referred to as Gospel when hearing the word will be surprised, because gospel here only refers to the textual content. Musically, it's an Afro-futuristic firework of pentatonic vocal explosions, carried by rolling West African rhythms. It’s Frafra-Gospel, not Gospel.