MUSIC

Ata Kak/Lollise

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
7:30 PM

Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$26
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Ata Kak’s story is a familiar one: he made a cassette tape in Ghana in the mid-’90s that sank like a stone even there — but was “discovered” by a Western Alt-Popmeister years later, who sought Ata Kak out, distributed the cassette worldwide, and made Kak A Thing. In most of these cases, though, you wonder what, beyond a good backstory, these lost artists bring to the table. Ata Kak’s off-kilter Highlife-Hip Hop isn’t only absolutely unique, though: it’s a stone gas. That local Art-Afropop sensation Lollise is opening only makes this even more of a Big Night.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this fabulous is worth a stroll from Persian gem Eyval.