{"id":41442,"date":"2019-09-23T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/acholitronix-pioneer-otim-alpha-delivers-new-banger-tong-gweno\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:19:33","slug":"otim-alpha-tong-gweno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/otim-alpha-tong-gweno\/","title":{"rendered":"Acholitronix pioneer Otim Alpha delivers new banger &#8216;Tong Gweno&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29574 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41.jpg\" alt=\"OTIM ALPHA TONG GWEN CLIP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41-759x400.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41-661x348.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41-465x245.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Webp.net-compress-image-41-375x198.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Tong Gweno&#8221; is another hyper-frenetic electronic Acholi cut from Otim Alpha.<\/h4>\n<p>Over a decade ago,&nbsp;Otim Alpha&nbsp;started reinterpreting&nbsp;traditional Acholi wedding songs with&nbsp;music software on computers.&nbsp;The result gave birth to fast-paced poly-rhythmic music ready for dancefloor madness known as Acholitronix. Nowadays, Otim is still making&nbsp;one of the most furious electronic music from East Africa, and &#8220;Tong Gweno&#8221; is the&nbsp;latest example of that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwS9-hP3LZo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Otim Alpha teams up with producer Leo Palayeng and Umojah for this mad&nbsp;Acholitronix banger. The music video&nbsp;was shot&nbsp;in Gulu&#8217;s streets, highlighting&nbsp;traditional customs as Alpha, in ancestral outfits, invites passersby to join his dance.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Otim Alpha in our&nbsp;Afro Club Exp.&nbsp;playlist on&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/38btMIbD4lYEsPbMrN9Bjz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/3244743002?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen <em>Tong Gweno<\/em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/hakunakulala.bandcamp.com\/album\/tong-gweno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dj-kampire-on-the-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Kampire, on the rise<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29572\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno.jpg\" alt=\"Tong Gweno\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tong-Gweno-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tong Gweno&#8221; is another hyper-frenetic electronic Acholi cut from Otim Alpha. Over a decade ago,&nbsp;Otim Alpha&nbsp;started reinterpreting&nbsp;traditional Acholi wedding songs with&nbsp;music software on computers.&nbsp;The result gave birth to fast-paced poly-rhythmic music ready for dancefloor madness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096,6622],"location":[8184],"yst_prominent_words":[9707,8403,16707,8995,8414,8933,8542,8400,8543,14321,8449],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41442"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41442"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}