{"id":40850,"date":"2020-03-09T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/back-to-the-roots-for-kokoroko-with-their-single-carry-me-home\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:08:41","slug":"kokoroko-carry-me-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kokoroko-carry-me-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the roots for Kokoroko with their single ‘Carry Me Home’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The London band Kokoroko is inspired by Dele Sosimi, an English musician of Nigerian origin for their song “Carry Me Home”.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Photo <\/em><\/span>\u00a9 Nina Manandhar<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Led by trumpet player and bandleader Sheila Maurice-Grey, the band is constantly climbing the ladder on the London and international music scene. After the track “Abusey junction” which launched them, Kokoroko<\/a> are back<\/span> in force with “Carry Me Home” which is inspired by conversations with Dele Sosimi, a renowned keyboard player and former member of Fela Kuti<\/a>‘s Eg<\/span>ypt 80, who mixes groove and funk on an afrobeat basis with solos that are sometimes vocal and sometimes instrumental.<\/p>\n

With brass breaks accompanied by a constant percussive rhythm, this track – a tribute to Sheila Maurice-Grey’s cousin and percussionist Onome Edgeworth’s grandfather – is full of similarities with Sosimi’s music and shows the cultural mix that the eight musicians of Kokoroko make of London jazz and the afrobeat sound of West Africa.<\/p>\n

\u00ab Carry Me Home \u00bb, out now via Brownswood Recordings.<\/p>\n