Femi Koleoso

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Für Frontman und Drummer Femi Koleoso steckt darin eine Frage: Warum klingt so viel schwarze Musik, die aus Schmerz entstanden ist, trotzdem so voller Freude? Seine Antwort lautet: Hoffnung.

Sie wollen nicht so tun, als wäre immer alles gut, sondern anerkennen, dass zwischen Schmerz und Freude etwas liegt, das einen weitermachen lässt.

[musik]

And Black Arsenal is kind of like an umbrella term for how so many Black people from London and way beyond feel about that club.

[upbeat music] My name is Femi Koleoso, and I am a musician from North London.

I'm in the band Ezra Collective, and yeah, I DJ, I do radio, and everything in between.

Joyful jazz fused-

So today, we were joined by Femi from Ezra Collective.

Um, Femi, Femi Koleoso, lovely man.

Mm.

Lovely, joyful, warm, funny, beautiful voice, great drummer.

[upbeat music]

The band leader is Femi Koleoso.

Um, he has a radio show on BBC 6 that I'm a, a big fan of.

Listening to him talk about music is really infectious and- His love of music shows in a big way on this record especially because there are, yeah, there's salsa tracks, there's reggae tracks, there's calypso tracks.