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For Bossaphonik's first event at our new venue, we welcome Jally Kebba Susso and his band. He is griot (oral historian and entertainer through music and storytelling) originally from Gambia and based in the UK since 2002. He brings his 21-string West African harp, the kora, into new dimensions of funk based sound.

Born into 74 generations of Gambian musicians, by age 13 he was a well respected kora player and had toured Europe. He spent many years honing his sound with experimentation in styles since living in the UK and soaking London's underground music scene. Jally Kebba skilfully places the traditional repertoire of his heritage into a larger dancefloor oriented soundscape of jazz funk fusion.

Jally Kebba will be joined onstage with drums, bass, percussion and sax. The band members connect with precision, speed and confidence resulting in an electric vibrant performance which has made them crowd pullers at festivals such as Wilderness, Shambala and Secret Garden Party.

Jally Kebba considers himself an Afro-futurist, expanding the boundaries of the Gambian tradition whilst keeping its heart and soul intact. Seemlessly combining West African sounds with hard funk, jazz and rock into a new psychedelic roots sound. Jally says that musically he wants to shake things up!

London's favourite griot. Songlines magazine

The kora resides at the heart of his playing but with lashings of more funky rhythms Jazz FM

Not your usual kora player and not your usual griot Rhythm Passport

Check out a short documentary on Jally Kebba Susso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAoJgVgwqEQ

Following the gig will be a Bossaphonik club session with DJ Dan Ofer til 2am!
Afrobeat * Latin Rhythms * Global Beats * Future Soul * Nu Jazz Bizniz!

9pm - 2am. Live band start at 10pm sharp

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Between Towns Road,

Oxford,

Oxfordshire,

England,

OX4 3LZ.