K.O.G. is short for Kweku of Ghana. However, his real name is Kweku Sackey: A singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist who came to Sheffield just over ten years ago to pursue an academic career but instead became a central figure in British Afro-futuristic music scene. Through his work with the projects Onipa and The Zongo Brigade, K.O.G. also managed to make waves far beyond the white cliffs of Dover. Among other things, he has shared the stage with artists such as Thundercat, Femi Kuti and Tony Allen, and performed at the celebration of Nelson Mandela’s hundreth birthday. When he finally releases an album under his own name, it’s in the form of a hyper-heavy hodgepodge of a record: From Afrobeat Fela Kuti style to Highlife à la Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Ebo Taylor. Bob Marley is another important inspiration, as is Tupac Shakur. Choirs, balafon and distorted rap. Africa and Yorkshire swaying in harmony, the soil and the trees and the cosmos all grooving to the backbeat.