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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 Agbeko are an Afrobeat-inspired juggernaut born out of reverence for music of West Africa in the 1970s and mixed in a cauldron of psychedelic rock, funk, Ethio-jazz, avant-garde and contemporary UK jazz. Channelled through an onslaught of horns, irresistible grooves and powerful lyrics, Agbeko's songs strive to call out corruption and embolden the collective pull towards societal change and healing in present times. Their music soundtracks a congregation revelling upon a world teetering on the edge of collapse.
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). For WOMEX 2024, they are selected representatives of their hometown Manchester at the showcase’s opening concert at The Bridgewater Hall. "I got so lost in the sound I actually fell over... It was completely out of hand"
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