Jo Kunnuji Experiment

Joseph Kunnuji, the leader of the Jo Kunnuji Experiment, is a musician, (ethno)musicologist, composer and trumpeter. Hence, the band’s music fuses traditional African and contemporary trans-continental musical elements. The Jo Kunnuji Experiment features members from diverse musical backgrounds in different ensemble sizes. The band re-interprets West African Ogu music with jazz, gospel, pop and soul elements while drawing extensively from modern South African harmonic sensibilities. In a newly released album, Avale, Jo Kunnuji Experiment joined forces with Gogoke (an indigenous Ogu band from Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria) to create a transcendental style with international accessibility. This project, brimming with African pride, has since informed Kunnuji’s recent sound tempered with deep cultural heritage and informed by a trained appreciation. This music is best experienced live with a depth only palpable through shared spaces.