{"id":82941,"date":"2021-06-23T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/guy-one-so-la-ma-la\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:28:10","slug":"guy-one-so-la-ma-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/guy-one-so-la-ma-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy One blends funk and kologo on So La Ma La"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ghanaian artist is a lover of the traditional rhythms of his native country and here unveils a cut from his latest album, <em>So La Ma La,<\/em> on which he is accompanied by his new group as well as Florence Adooni and Tenni Akagam.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Guy One, the master of kologo from northern Ghana, is back on the scene with his new band, made up of young talents from Kumasi, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/florence-adooni-2\/\">Florence Adooni<\/a> and Tenni Akagam providing backing vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1038642127\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guyone.bandcamp.com\/album\/so-la-ma-la\">So La Ma La by Guy One<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So La Ma La<\/em> explores funky highlife while drawing inspiration from Afrobeat, best exemplified on &#8220;To Kale Na&#8217;nabala,&#8221; which is out now. The track draws on traditional Kete music, embellished by Guy One&#8217;s kologo playing and soulful vocals, in a manner typical Northern Ghanaian songcraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find our <a href=\"\/?p=82917\">review<\/a> on his last record released in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Guy One in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order <em>So La Ma La<\/em> before July 9, via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philophon.com\/index.php\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philophon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Guy-One-So-La-Ma-La-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghanaian artist is a lover of the traditional rhythms of his native country and here unveils a cut from his latest album, So La Ma La, on which he is accompanied by his new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":82936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[31329,40608,40610,24873,40609],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,31241,8995,31240,8407,11044,8933,8402,8435,8400],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941"}],"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=82941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=82941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}