Kokoroko - ABUSEY JUNCTION // WE OUT HERE

Kokoroko’s new single Age of Ascent is out now 🕊🦅 Listen here ➡️ Their long-awaited debut album Could We Be More, is due for release on August 5th 2022 via Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings. Pre-order the debut album here: A primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene, this new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where genre markers matter less than raw, focused energy. Surveying the album’s running order, it could easily serve as a name-checking exercise for some of London’s most-tipped and hardworking bands of the past couple of years. Recorded across three long, fruitful days in a North West London studio, the results speak for themselves: they’re a window into the wide-eyed future of London’s musical underground. Kokoroko (meaning ’be strong’ in Urhobo), are a collective of young musicians brought together by a love for Afrobeat led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey. They specialise in a soul shaking, horn fuelled sound with West African roots and inner London hues. ’Abusey Junction’ is a ballad written by guitarist Oscar Jerome (fast making a name as an artist in his own right). It was written on the roof of a compound in Gambia where the band spent time last year immersing themselves in the soundscapes of the region. Sheila Maurice-Grey - Trumpet Cassie Kinoshi - Alto Sax Richie Seivwright - Trombone Oscar Jerome (Laurence) - Guitar Yohan Kebede - Keyboard Onome Edgeworth - Percussion Mutale Chashi - Bass We Out Here compilation released 9th Feb 2018 Follow - Kokoroko - Buy - We Out Here -