Jeano Elong & Not OK Jazz
Drums and djembé, fuzzy electric piano sounds, psychedelic synthesizers and bitchy guitars in the style of Kid Creole or Talking Heads: Jeano Elong & Not OK Jazz play alternative Afro, Makossa with a twang, High Life with a twist, trippy and tropical, funky and political. Jeano Elong, singer and bassist, comes from Cameroon. He sings in Bakaka, a Bantu language from his village, Eboné. In 2013, he came to Hamburg as one of the so-called "Lampedusa refugees" who had to flee the civil war in Libya. There he became part of the agitprop collective Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati led by producer and musician Ted Gaier (Goldene Zitronen). In November, Jeano Elong released his debut album Jâbeâ. His songs have their roots in Cameroonian or African genres such as Makossa, Bikutsi or Hilife, but you can tell that they were played in Altona and St. Pauli. His band Not OK Jazz includes musicians from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Germany.
Support: Ben Diggin (Outernational Tunes)
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