Six years,
one thing after another.
From five songs cut in a front room to a tour booked before the record was out. Nothing here was a plan; all of it was a consequence.
The road
Six moments that moved it
One per year, and in every case it was a person rather than a plan.
2020
Five songs in a front room
The First Light EP, recorded in Osu on two microphones borrowed from a church, mixed on headphones, and put out with no plan beyond wanting it to exist. It has never been taken down and it still outsells two of the albums.
2021
A residency nobody came to
One Thursday a month at Bloom, playing to eleven people in February and to a full room by November. Almost every song on the next two records was tried out there first.
2022
Salt & Gold, and a band
The first record made with players rather than by one person and a laptop. Kwabena arranged it, Naa Dedei joined halfway through the sessions, and the horns arrived for two songs and stayed.
2023
The first stage outside Ghana
Abidjan in March, half the set in a language still being learned, and a crowd that forgave the grammar. Four more francophone dates followed inside the year.
2024
Midnight Trotro, cut live
Four nights at Republic Studios with everybody in the same room and no overdubs. The record that stopped the band being described as a solo project with a backing group.
2026
Harmattan Skin, and a real tour
Six cities, three countries, and the first run where every date was booked before the record came out. This is the year the arithmetic finally worked.
Where that leaves us
The six years, counted
210
+
Nights on a stage since 2020
4
Records, all of them still in print
6
Countries the band has played in
36
Thursdays at the Bloom residency
In her own words
I did not set out to build any of this. I set out to finish five songs so that a version of them existed somewhere other than in my head, and everything since has been one thing leading to the next one.
What changed it was other people. A room that kept turning up on a Thursday. A drummer who would not let a song be rushed. An engineer who travels with us so that a night in Takoradi sounds like the record. Whatever this is now, none of it is one person's.
Wren
Osu, Accra — February 2026
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