OY

OY certainly are a Berlin-based duo comprising Swiss-Ghanaian vocalist/musician Pleasure Frempong and drummer/manufacturer Lleluja-Ha. Frempong represents her music as experimental soul-glitch-jazz-avant-hip-pop. It’s a good categorization provided her audio. She got her initial major exposure in conjunction with the Swiss electronica collective Filewile, offering guest vocals on the 2007 Nassau Therapeutic massage release. Functioning her method up to complete member by 2009’s Blueskywell, Frempong started branching out right into a single career beneath the OY moniker. OY’s debut record, First Box, After that Walk, premiered for the Creaked Information label this year 2010. Four years in the producing, the ambitious full-length included sort of dark jazz into light electronica while offering her deeper vocal skills. The record met with important success because of her compositional skills aswell as the mixture of years as a child tales and dark tinges in her vocals. In 2011, Berlin-based composer and drummer Lleluja-Ha (Marcel Blatti) became a member of OY, offering the project a far more danceable (but still avant-garde) audio. A remix EP entitled Take a look at Me made an appearance in 2012, accompanied by the full-length Kokokyinaka in 2013. The duo after that agreed upon to Belgian label Crammed Discs, which released an up to date edition of Kokokyinaka, retitled NO ISSUE Saloon, in 2014. OY’s third record, Space Diaspora, made an appearance in 2016.