Yao Bobby & Simon Grab – Live at Nyege Nyege Festival 2022

Yao Bobby x Simon Grab Live at Nyege Nyege Festival September 2022 Mad vibes and full energy at the Darkstar stage of the Nyege Nyege Festival in September 2022 with the togolese-swiss duo Yao Bobby x Simon Grab. Placed in the middle of the crowd their intense experimental rap and noise show turns into a magic moment, like a ugandan answer to an industrial warehouse rave, but in a beautiful scenery in the middle of the woods within a wicked installation of hanging mushrooms. That’s as raw as it can get!On the day Yao Bobby x Simon Grab played at Nyege Nyege, their double LP WUM dropped on their Bristol label LavaLava, an album that showcases the unique soundworld of Togolese rapper Yao Bobby and Swiss noisemaker Simon Grab, who each bring a totally singular style & attitude to create a kind of next generation free form rap, noise & synthetic rhythm concoction coaxed out of improvised feedback signals and dynamic microphone control. Yao’s lyrics (in his mother tongue Ewe, french and als