January 29, 8PM | Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Amayo Album Release at Brooklyn Bowl
Amayo's Lion Awakes Album Release Show at Brooklyn Bowl
Date: January 29
Tickets and more information here.
Amayo, best known as frontman for America's premier Afrobeat band Antibalas, debuts his new album, Lion Awakes. Amayo recently discussed the album with Afropop's Banning Eyre.
"It comes from the myth story of the traditional Chinese lion dance. The Chinese lion gets tossed out of the heavens. He lands. Obviously, I made up my own story where I had to you know, embellish it more with like something that would be more in fitting with where we are, where I think we're heading with revelations in our world. I placed him in an ancient Africa, before the land was split up.
