Artist Info

Presenting you Koala, music that will take you on a mindtrip from the heart of a green damp jungle up to the no-place catacombs of some grim city. Overloaded, their first single features Joy Adegoke with her typical way of singning as vocal gravy layerd over the magical

In 2002 Carlos Dyckmans decided that the time was come to put Koala on the tracks. Even before that date this guitar player started to compose songs that eventually in their maturity would be built around a mixture of triphop, downboat, electronics and acoustic arrangements. Together with the young rapper Islasoul he invested all his time in Koala which - given the initial musical intentions – was immediately inclined to work with different musicians who have their roots in diverse and often dispersed musical backgrounds.

The result of this co-operative with musicians like Joris de Caesstecker, Wim Geeraerts , Luca Ammendola and dj soi was released in the spring of 2006. Koala’s first album, Gravity, consists of 12 songs.

This album is a product of the band’s policy of openness to many different styles of music. It was further enriched by guest performances from Gregory Frateur (Dez Mona, DAAN), Lamont Stigler (DJ Grazzhoppa’s DJ Bigband), and Joy Adegoke. As it harbours a rich variety of guest vocalists as well, Gravity is standing at the crossroads of downbeat, triphop, world music, progressive rock, hiphop, soundtrack and even some flashes of jazz.