Afro-beat from the north! 6-piece from Denmark have crossed borders with their debut album "Afro-Fire", thrilling audiences from Copenhagen to South Korea and Africa. "Our music is for sharing", says the Danish Grammy Award winning group. Formed in 2013 by Gustav Rasmussen and Michael Blicher, things have happened quickly for the 6-piece afro-beat/souljazz band based in Copenhagen. Taking their musical inspiration from the soul of Fela Kuti and the delusional arrangements of Charles Mingus they fused it with their own European backgrounds into a new sound. Their debut release Afro-Fire received international critical acclaim and radio airplay on BBC, Bayerische Rundfunk (DE), FM4 (AU), Radio X (DE), WNYU Radio (US) and many others. The album has received 5 Danish Grammy nominations, winning “BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM” and "BEST WORLD MUSIC TRACK". The KutiMangoes have toured Northern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East as well as their home country, having performed at prestigious festivals such as: Reeperbahn Festival (DE), Jarasum Int. Jazz Festival (S. Korea), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DK), OCT-Loft Festival (C), Reykjavik Jazz Festival (I), Jazzy Koun Ben (Mali), Istanbul Jazz Festival (T). In may 2016 the band returned to Western Africa to record their follow-up album with musicians in Burkina Faso and Mali. The album including new takes on thousand-year-old traditional folk songs as well as new compositions will be out in November 2016. A film documenting their journey and collaborations will be out in the spring of 2017
