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- Summary: The debut full-length release for London-based eight-member Afrobeat collective Kokoroko includes influences from funk, jazz, soul and West African music.
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- Record Label: Brownswood
- Genre(s): Jazz, Afrobeat
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Aug 5, 2022It expertly combines these global roots traditions with hip urban sounds in a distinctive mix that's at once contemporary and timeless. Well worth the long wait, this is the kind of creative, far-reaching, accessible album that comes along once in a generation.
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Aug 5, 2022In all it’s a fascinating mix, which should attract new recruits to Kokoroko’s ever-growing legion of fans.
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Aug 5, 2022The results are rewarding. Could We Be More is a finely crafted unit that takes KOKOROKO’s span of influences (highlife and afrobeat in the vein of Fela Kuti and Ebo Taylor; a solid education in jazz; the entire city of London) and spins them through a dream machine of sorts.
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MojoAug 5, 2022Mixture of West Africa and Caribbean influences. Oscar Jerome's glowing highlife guitar opens Dide O, a midway tryptic with Soul Searching (Afrobeat) and We Give Thanks. (soul). [Sep 2022, p.96]
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Aug 8, 2022There’s an easy-going beauty to this music that is more redolent of succour than anger. Some might find this record a little too pretty.