{"id":61719,"date":"2020-10-05T17:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/le-systeme-d-selon-alostmen\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:05:27","slug":"alostmen-kologo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/alostmen-kologo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alostmen show resourcefulness in “Kologo” music video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the video for their first single “Kologo,” extracted from a forthcoming eponymous album, Alostmen apply resourcefulness and virtuosity to the traditional Ghanaian lute.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by rap, reggae and traditional Malian instruments, the Ghanaian group revisits the sounds of the kologo, a two-stringed instrument from the traditional music of the Frafra people in northern Ghana. Formed by Stevo Atambire, Alostmen features Jo Ajusiwine on goje fiddle\/vocals, Aminu Amadu on talking drum, and Sowah on gome box\/djembe\/conga. The band call themselves Alostmen \u201cbecause we were lost in the street, the forgotten people<\/em>,\u201d explains Stevo. \u201cMy people listen closely to my lyrics so I never just sing anything. People at home see music as a teaching so I always try to send a good message. I talk of this region, how they used to live and what they experience today. I try to bring development, peace and unity to the community, to give them<\/em> hope to achieve<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stevo Atambire brings a new approach to purely traditional instrumentation, in the style of Jimi Hendrix, for instance: tone slides, bends, dead notes, syncopated playing, etc. He sometimes even plays the kologo with a pedal, thus revolutionizing its playing style. It is this ingenious art of resourcefulness that shows the abundant contemporary creativity of Ghanaian artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kologo<\/em> will be released on January 19, 2021 via Strut Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Alostmen in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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