Minimally equipped with a guitar, recording console and a tiny toy keyboard, longtime friends Benjamin Lazar Davis and Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney trekked to West Africa and struck up a collaboration with Stevo Atambire, legendary Ghanaian musician/master of the kologo. The duo’s full-length debut, Still Flying, features 11insightfully crafted songs, reimagining traditional gyil parts and drum patterns in the context of their own graceful collision of folk and pop and indie-rock.

Tracklist:

1:Endings/Beginnings
2:Dog Teeth
3:Still Flying
4:Wowo Nmaa
5:The Weatherman
6:Say Something
7:Earthly Joys
8:I Can Hear You
9:Debozir
10:Beethoven’s Ninth
11:Don’t Bring Me Down