Saturday, December 27, 2025

Age of ascent (Kokoroko) (LP 4100)

Kokoroko  Could We Be More (Vinyl, Brownswood Records, 2022) ****  

Genre: Jazz fusion

Places I remember: JB Hi Fi

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Something's Going On

Gear costume: Tojo

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6

Active compensatory factors: Kokoroko is a jazz fusion band led by 
Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet), Cassie Kinoshi (sax), Oscar Jerome (guitar), Onome Edgeworth (percussion), plus others, playing a fusion of jazz, funk and Ghanaian music. That brew equals jazz fusion in my world.

Could We Be More is their debut album. It's rather wonderful on a hot day in the summer holidays while you sit in the right spot to catch potential cool breezes.

Where do they all belong? This was a punt - it was in the under 30 dollar rack at JB Hi Fi. Now I'll be on the lookout for their second and latest album - Tuff Times Never Last, released a few months ago.

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