Very excited to welcome back King Ayisoba for his first shows at OTO in nearly eight years! Often called “King of Kologo” and “a living legend”, King Ayisoba has a unique sound and significant range of voices, creating a music like no other.

Coming from a rural area in the far north of Ghana, descending from a Frafra hunting tribe, his performances are full of tribal power, his grandfather’s voices which materializes through his incredible range of deep and loud nasal cries as well as soft high singing accompanied by his kologo. Supported by his band of Frafra musicians, with their mesmerizing infectious beats, high energy dances and singing, King Ayisoba provides captivating stage performances with rhythms going straight to the heart and inner pulse with a touch of repetitive trance.

Already as a very small child King Ayisoba started to play the kologo, since then it’s been like an extended part of his body, not a single day goes by where he is not playing. King Ayisoba brings the traditional and modern together while addressing personal, social and political issues that he thinks needs attention and change. He wishes to inspire people to be more conscious and to act upon injustice, corruption, greed or how a father treats his family.

King Ayisoba’s music keeps evolving into new areas of hiplife, punk rock, dancehall, reggae, folkmusic and even techno. He has worked for more than a decade with Zea, front figure Arnold de Boer from the Ex (NL) and has additionally made collaborations with international artists like Lee “Scratch” Perry (JM), Orlando Julius (NG), African Head Charge (UK), Adrian Sherwood (UK), Djuma Soundsystem (NO), MoBlack (IT), Pharfar (DK), New Age Doom (CA), and many others.