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Space Diaspora presents its new album on Crammed Discs

28th of September 2016, 15:09

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Lleluja-Ha (pseudoniem van Marcel Blatti) is een multi-instrumentalist, componist en producer, die zich on stage steevast van top tot teen in een tribal kostuum (inclusief masker) van de Duitse ontwerpster Victoria Behr hult. Alles wat OY doet past binnen het alienation thema. Hun liveshows worden ook beschouwd als een visueel utopisch spektakel. Vergelijkingen met Grace Jones, MIA en Laurie Anderson zijn dan ook snel gemaakt.

After wowing audiences at major festivals across many countries for the last couple of years, the original and creative duet consisting of Ghanaian-Swiss vocalist & musician Joy Frempong and producer & musician Lleluja-Ha are back with new songs from another world.

OY’s new album is a space opera - highly danceable avant-garde, based on a core of vocal loops, electronica and drumming. It tells the story of mankind’s prosperous future on a planet called 'Space Diaspora’ on which humans finally developed the ability to learn from their mistakes.

Life on Space Diaspora is a reflection and a distortion of our own struggling world, conveying sentiments of modern alienation and transnational identity. OY’s thoughtful and humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach looks back at current times from the vantage point of a chaos-driven but blooming society in our own future. A vision which elicits tears as well as smiles, and praises the huge potential of the in-between.

The Space Diaspora fable is a framework which enables OY to make use of their multiple talents and create a playful and imaginative opus, bursting with melodies carried by Joy Frempong’s formidable voice. As voices have remained the strongest form of communication throughout history, the album’s electronic core is built out of transformed vocal samples. They reappear in synthesized form - as melodies, chords or patterns - backing the band’s reflections on transhumanism, diaspora or transculturation. The resulting sound could be described as a futuristic blend of rebellious tribal jazz and electronica, which the band call “Oyxploitation”…

Initial pre-release concerts in Paris, Fes and London have generated great media reactions, with comparisons to Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and MIA, and a show described as ‘a visual and utopian universe’, ‘a spectacle that cheers up listeners’, ‘a captivating performance pitched somewhere between preaching and performance art’, and ‘a set that confirms to us that music is a power, a force’.

The broad musical background of the co-writers ranges from underground experiments to composing for contemporary theatre and reflects that, for them, there is just one love: music as an entity. OY face the absurdity of life with humour, they share with generosity and invite listeners to participate in their musical journey.


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De Zwitsers-Ghanese zangeres Joy Frempong maakte furore met haar solodebuut vol jazz, elektronica, Afrikaanse vibes en improvisatie. Hierna ging ze van solo naar een duo. Onder de naam OY brengt Frempong samen met multi-instrumentalist Lleluja-Ha deze week alweer hun derde album, genaamd 'Space Diaspora', uit.

De muziek van OY heeft pop-appeal, maar blijft een wilde mix van stijlen en invloeden; tunes om op te dansen en te dromen. 'Space Diaspora' is een soort space opera, waarin OY het verhaal vertelt over een toekomst op een andere planeet. In de teksten speelt Frempong met de realiteit van een andere wereld, terwijl ze stiekem onze eigen maatschappij onder de loep neemt. "Als je naar de absurditeit van het leven kijkt is humor je grote vriend; ook op ons nieuwe album."

OY - "Space Diaspora": a presentation from Crammed Discs on Vimeo.



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