Dark Suburb partners with Wiyaala, Rocky Dawuni to build ultra modern studio in the Northern Region

Ghanaian alternative rock band Dark Suburb has teamed up with Wiyaala and Grammy –Award nominee Rocky Dawuni to build an ultra-modern studio in the Northern part of the country.

Speaking with GN TV’s Pamela Boateng in Accra, leader of the 5member band, Chief Priest revealed that the studio will be situated in the Northern Region and is expected to be completed by close of the year 2018.

‘‘We have Wiyaala, we have hopefully Rocky Dawuni who is like 70% cool with it. We just have challenges with recording. People don’t understand why Dark Suburb doesn’t play a lot of times. Sometimes event organizers do not have the equipment we need; rock is very intense and it involves a lot of hard work.

So we’re trying to solve a problem we are facing and one of the agenda is to build the biggest studios in Africa or probably in the world. It’s a daring agenda but we’re on,’ he said.

Commenting on the team’s decision to site the studio in the Northern Region, Chief Priest said, ‘Dark suburb is the suburbs that have been ignored. We are Abgogbloshie people; that is who we are and that’s our culture.’

When asked when the project will be completed, the band stated that the ultra modern studio will be completed at the end of the year 2018.

‘Hopefully before the end of the year, we have a couple of small studios, it’s just that we want something very grand for live recording artistes, for traditional artistes; for example people who want to record live xylophones. What people do not know about Dark Suburb is that we record with a lot of African elements but the limitation is always the equipment and logistics; so we’re trying to solve that problem,’ he said.

Dark Suburb is an alternative rock band from Ghana, a suburb of Africa that has adopted and refined a culture of masquerades in the continent as their image. Thus giving new impetus to a costume art form that is prevalent in many African societies.

The band wears skeleton masks to highlight the point of shared humanity and to remind the world that we are one people regardless of sex, race or social status.

They fuse all styles of music, especially African rhythms, with rock. The band constitutes 5 musicians and a poet who acts as their Chief Priest.