Blog October 29, 2021

Kirani Ayat and Re.decay's "These Days" Brings Berlin to Accra

<p> The sunny west coast of Ghana shows up in a late-night basement lounge in Berlin, as Ghanaian rapper and singer Kirani Ayat teams back up with the German production duo Re.decay for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk80TXJhOW9tVW5oQkhvZTlyOW93dU5FWU1MQXxBQ3Jtc0ttbHZEYU56UFB4T2hzZi1qRlBpa19DbDJ6UEVST0FaNmdTMXFlZTZULVU5OTIzdUJ5NlFJaERhVFNGd2RWNnJNYnhwM21sRl9PQi1iMU50cktfYUlFUWRQRVFrS2tER3lXS2pFTVFNelVDYi0td0ROWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fredecay.fanlink.to%2Fthese-days" target="_blank">their new song and video “These Days.”</a> </p> <p>His vocals bound from hard synth pulse to hard synth pulse. It isn’t the syrupy Afrobeats production—could you call it "Hausa-meets-deep house"?—but the results are catchy enough, the beat shuffles enough, for “These Days” to slip across continents and onto the playlist. Check it out: <br> </p> <figure><iframe loading="lazy" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bB3t___CNsU" allowfullscreen="" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"></iframe></figure> <p><br> The song is out on RDK Records, and drops ahead of Re.decay’s upcoming album <em>Way Out East.</em> Two years in the making, it features “15 artists from eight different countries and three continents,” because, of course, the beat will find you wherever you go.</p>