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Kologbo - Wearplay EP#33 - O.C.B. (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2019)
19 January 2019, 10:00
We gathered at Paris DJs and thought "we haven't released a new Kologbo single in a while and his wedding is coming soon now, so let's just release a new one right on his wedding day, that'll make him happy for sure". So here it is. "O.C.B.", for "Oghene Come Back"! Former Afrobeat students and collaborators from the Monkuti, World Squad and Newen Afrobeat bands are...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#32 - Watch Out feat. Joseph Cotton (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 October 2018, 11:00
Well, Kologbo singing about this ongoing crisis time we live in, Tony Allen on drums, the Afrobeat Academy horn section, Loik Dury & Grant Phabao producing… you should know the deal by now and think there's no surprise here. You couldn't be more wrong because this new song "Watch Out" features Jamaican deejay Joseph Cotton on guest vocals… for what is a fat slice of dancehall...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#31 - Disorganized (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 August 2018, 11:00
Summer is upon us hard these days, many tend to get slow & disorganized with this heat. But we didn't want to miss Kologbo day, which we're celebrating every 6th of the month with a new single, in the relentless series of monthly one from the former tenor guitar player in...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#30 - Gbo Gbo Eniyan feat. PapaGee (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 July 2018, 11:00
Every 6th of the month is Kologbo day at Paris DJs. Last month no new tune was released, but it was a Kologbo day anyway, since it was the day the former Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 tenor guitarist arrived in Nigeria, and the celebration happened secretely there… He's now back in France and hard working, which mostly means touring and recording new music. So we're back on track too, with a brand new...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#28 - Cool Down feat. Monkuti (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
07 May 2018, 13:51
We nearly missed KOLOGBO DAY. Every 6th of the month is Kologbo day at Paris DJs, which means we're celebrating our friend Oghene Kologbo, who was Fela Kuti's tenor guitarist in Afrika 70, who played with nearly everyone from the worldwide afrobeat scene ever since it emerged in the late 1990s (thanks to Antibalas a a few others), who released an album a few months ago on our Paris DJs label… So...
Franck Biyong - Wearplay EP#27 - Afro Bikutsi Live! (T-shirt/Digital album bundle, Afrolectric Music/Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
15 April 2018, 11:10
"We were booked to perform at this outdoor festival in Orleans and as we were about to depart from Paris, our percussionist still was nowhere to be found. We eventually had to travel without him, as we couldn’t afford to miss either our soundcheck or our performance. Playing African Music without ANY percussion is considered to be sacrilegious by many, even a complete blasphemy to some...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#26 - Dog Eat Dog (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 April 2018, 10:35
Not a month goes by without a sixth in it, so here's this April's one… Yes it's the 6th of the month, it's KOLOGBO DAY! So is there something special happening on Kologbo day? Indeed there is. Today we're proud to present 'Dog Eat Dog', another fantastic afrobeat banger, ready to devastate the most discerning global dancefloors! Kologbo, the former Afrika 70 tenor guitarist with Fela Kuti, hot on...
Kologbo & Afrobeat Academy - Wearplay EP#25 - Change The System (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 March 2018, 09:30
Every 6th of the month at Paris DJs is KOLOGBO DAY and this one is a special one — those in the know will understand — and this is why we're fulfilling Kologbo's request to reissue his 'Change The System' tune. It was released 10 years ago on his first album, 'Remember Fela Anikulapo Kuti', with German band Afrobeat Academy. Kologbo had heard it played in a mix from Paris DJs' podcast, and wanted...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#24 - Get Rich Quick (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 February 2018, 14:31
February 6th, it's Kologbo day at Paris DJs - just like every other 6th of the month we're releasing a brand new song from Fela Kuti Afrika 70's tenor guitar player! This one is called 'Get Rich Quick' and features the horn section and percussion player from French band Les Frères Smith, along with backing vocals from Chilean band Newen Afrobeat's quatuor of singers. No Tony Allen here, Kologbo...
Kologbo - Wearplay EP#23 - Music No Get Enemy (T-shirt/Digital single bundle, Paris DJs/Le T-shirt Français, 2018)
06 January 2018, 13:56
Fela Kuti had this song called 'Water No Get Enemy', on his 1975 album 'Expensive Shit' with the Afrika 70 band. Its title meant something like "Nobody hates something as useful as water". 43 years later, Fela's guitarist Kologbo, who played on nearly all of Fela's 1970s records (including this 1975 one), is paying a kind of tribute to that song and his former bandleader, with 'Music No...
