{"id":93725,"date":"2021-12-06T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/jembaa-groove-amale\/"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:46:36","slug":"jembaa-groove-amale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/jembaa-groove-amale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jembaa Groove tells no lie on \u201cAmale\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ghanaian-German duo is all about honesty on this new highlife-fused single, announcing an upcoming LP.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded in Berlin and following the single \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jembaagroove.bandcamp.com\/album\/bassa-bassa\" target=\"_blank\">Bassa Bassa<\/a>\u201d, \u201cAmale\u201d is the pair\u2019s latest offering, announcing their upcoming LP <em>Susuma <\/em>which will be released via <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/agogo-records\/\">Agogo Records<\/a>. Drawing inspiration from Afrobeat, highlife and soul, the track enhances the group\u2019s positive message, about being open to yourself and those around you, bringing truth to you and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Amale means lies. It&#8217;s about honesty. Being open to the people and to yourself. To don&#8217;t lie to them neither to yourself. Be close and true to yourself. Same time a general call for people to tell the truth because truth is what you need to navigate through life.<\/em>\u201d<\/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\/track=1115463609\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jembaagroove.bandcamp.com\/track\/amale\">Amale by Jembaa Groove<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jembaa Groove is composed of Yannick Nolting (bass, composer, producer) and Eric Owusu (percussion, vocals, songwriter). Meeting in Berlin late 2020 whilst collecting their young sons from school, they quickly realised they shared the same tastes and nomadic musical backgrounds. Eric, from Ghana, has been a core member of Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas\u2019 recording and touring set up for years while Yannick, from Germany, spent his formative years creating and performing with different Lusophone musicians in Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Susuma <\/em>by Jembaa Groove, out on March 18, 2022 via Agogo Records.<\/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=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jemba-groove-amale.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghanaian-German duo is all about honesty on this new highlife-fused single, announcing an upcoming LP.&nbsp; Recorded in Berlin and following the single \u201cBassa Bassa\u201d, \u201cAmale\u201d is the pair\u2019s latest offering, announcing their upcoming LP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4117,5431,41043],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[8544,8995,8414,16804,8933,39599,8545,27199],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93725"}],"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=93725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93725"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=93725"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=93725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}