Swiss-Ghanian vocalist Joy Frempong and drummer/producer Lleluja-Ha make up the kaleidoscopic outfit Oy based out of Berlin. Having released their debut album earlier this year in Europe, No Problem Saloon is now also being released in North America on June 24th via Crammed Discs.
The album is inspired and influenced by Joy´s travels to Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana and South Africa where “she met scores of people, listened to proverbs, heard stories, and collected bits of field recordings”, before returning to the studio in Berlin, as the press release explains.
The effervescent ‘Market Place’ was the first single to be extracted form the album and it comes with a video directed by King Luu and shot in Accra, Ghana. Here it is.