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There Must Be Another Way | OUT NOWAgbeko’s latest album, 'There Must Be Another Way', was released in late-2023 with an accompanying headline tour. The album has been featured on international radio including Groove Africa (Ghana), Headline.CZ, BBC Radio 6 (Tom Robinson), Worldwide FM, Radio Capital (Italy) and Radio 3 (Spain).
Songlines Magazine have printed (January 2024) that ‘the spectacular chemistry shared by this large band is electric and emotive, and the talents of each member/instrument are well-balanced in the mix’. This album builds upon Agbeko’s three previous self-releases since 2017: including debut album, 'D.O.D' (2020), which was featured on Bandcamp Daily. Agbeko recorded their next studio album in May 2024. . |
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"Go and see them if you can for one of the best gigs of your life"
NOW THEN MAGAZINE 12-piece powerhouse Agbeko have been erupting dancefloors across Europe since first taking the stage in 2016. Inspired by the lineage of Afrobeat from Fela Kuti through to Antibalas via modern-day psychedelia of The Heliocentrics and The Shaolin Afronauts, Agbeko seek to write their own chapter with their unique combination of Ethio-jazz and British Protest Song-meets-avant-rock. Channelled through an onslaught of horns, driven grooves, moving lyrics and cathartic soloing, Agbeko's songs call out corruption and embolden the collective pull towards societal change and healing in our times. Penned by Jamie Stockbridge and borne by a virtuosic collective featuring dual front-women Amber Kuti & Mali Hayes, their music soundtracks a congregation revelling upon a world on the brink. They performed as musical hometown ambassadors at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
Drawing as equally from Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke as they do from Led Zeppelin and Woody Guthrie, ‘Agbeko are their own force of nature, with a message, an understanding and a consitent ability to erupt a dance floor’ (Groovement). "I got so lost in the sound I actually fell over... It was completely out of hand"
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