Reconstructing Song: ODD OKODDO & Ogoya Nengo

20:00 I Concert I JAKI

This music does not begin in the studio, but in relationships: on journeys, in neighborhoods, a rapprochement that spans years. Between Nairobi and Siaya in Kenya, the duo ODD OKODDO - Sven Kacirek and Olith Ratego - weave an idiosyncratic dialog with the great 83-year-old Dodo singer Ogoya Nengo. Dodo, the singing tradition of the Luo, with which news is transported, commented on and remembered, meets modular electronics, percussive precision and Ratego's self-made five-string Okodo lute - music that knows its origins, transcends them and illuminates them anew.
On Palagoma (2026), this constellation becomes a trio for the first time: in nine pieces that move between village narrative and electro-acoustic condensation. The voices stand close and undisguised in the room, while clicking rhythms, wooden sounds or sharply contoured synthesizer lines shift underneath. Call-and-response vocals tip over into mechanical pulses, intimate storytelling rubs up against gyrating grooves.

// Sven Kacirek (percussion, electronics), Olith Ratego (vocals, lute), Ogoya Nengo (vocals)