This is out today! King Ayisoba - Pure Confusion, recorded at On U Sound.

Ayisoba is one of Ghana’s most distinctive musical voices. The world’s foremost player of the kologo - a homemade two-string lute fashioned from a calabash and covered in goatskin - he delivers fiercely political and socially observant songs using three different voices, including the voice of his grandfather that possessed him as a child. Sherwood meanwhile is the pioneering British producer and founder of On-U Sound whose hugely influential career has connected dub, post-punk, industrial, hip hop and experimental music.

Featuring

Ayuun Sule - percussion, backing vocals
Ivan Hussey - cello and bass
Doug Wimbish - bass
Alex White - sax
Mark Bandola - synths
Alan Glenn - harmonica
Adrian Sherwood - production
Me - engineer, programming, mastering

https://ayisoba.bandcamp.com/album/pure-confusion

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Pure Confusion, by King Ayisoba

9 track album

King Ayisoba

The Wolf That House Built is the debut album of Little Axe, released in 1994 by Wired Recordings.

Review by Rick Anderson

...Skip McDonald's background is in the blues, and what he has put together here is a tribute to Howling Wolf. This is a roiling pastiche of samples taken from Wolf's singing and speaking, all of them thrown into a stew of funk and reggae beats and interspersed with McDonald's own multi-tracked vocals (which will sound very familiar to fans of Tackhead and Strange Parcels, both of which were founded by him). It's hard to identify highlights here, but some of the album's especially strong moments come during "Ride On," which samples Howling Wolf's discussions of life on the road, and the primarily instrumental "Out in the Rain and Cold." Exquisite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe8dILu0tus&list=OLAK5uy_lF6aOJ-YjUXnNqekWsGkFMkxrU4dHgqlg

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