{"id":16983,"date":"2020-11-27T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:11:52","slug":"listen-to-alostmens-single-minus-me-debut-album-kologo-out-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16983","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Alostmen&#8217;s single &#8216;Minus Me&#8217;, debut album <em>Kologo<\/em> out in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16985\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alostmen-kologo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alostmen-kologo.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alostmen-kologo-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a new album on the way from Ghana&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/alostmen.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alostmen<\/a>, the band formed by Stevo Atambire when touring together with Wanlov The Kubolor (Fok\u2019n Bois) in different outfits in 2017. Entitled <em>Kologo<\/em>, the album is set for release on January 29th through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strut-records.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strut Records<\/a>. \u201cI had toured with Stevo in my band Afro Gypsy in 2017,\u201d Wanlov explained, \u201cand we recorded the tracks for this album on the road in Uganda and North West Ghana in hotel rooms\u201d. Alostmen&#8217;s music is inspired by the Frafra traditions of the kologo, a kind of stringed lute instrument, and they also bring to the mix other influences like rap and reggae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the album release, Alostmen have shared &#8216;Minus Me&#8217;, featuring highlife legend Gyedu-Blay Ambolley. &#8220;He is one of our all-time greats,&#8221; said Atambire. &#8220;I love to watch him play. His deep vocal was perfect for this track.&#8221; Listen to the single below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3456124364\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1924347740\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alostmen.bandcamp.com\/album\/kologo\">Kologo by Alostmen feat. Ambolley<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new album on the way from Ghana&#8217;s Alostmen, the band formed by Stevo Atambire when touring together with Wanlov The Kubolor (Fok\u2019n Bois) in different outfits in 2017. Entitled Kologo, the album is set for release on January 29th through Strut Records. \u201cI had toured with Stevo in my band Afro Gypsy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2436],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alostmen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16988,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions\/16988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}