Style and Instruments
Except for an amplified guitar, played with the West African finger picking style, Wulomei’s instruments are indigenous, with atenteben bamboo flutes and a lot of traditional local percussion that includes the giant gombe frame drums, which provide a deep percussive “bass-line”.
Songs and music
Wulomei play old Ga and Liberian sea shanties, gome songs, and the kolomashie and kpanlogo recreational songs of Accra and also Akan highlife music.
To portray the band’s indigenous orientation, Wulomei’s performers wear the white or yellow cloth and frilly hats of the Wulomei or traditional priests and priestesses of the Ga people of Accra.
Albums
In 1974 Wulomei released its debut record, ‘Walatu Walasa’ followed by “Wulomei in Drum Conference” released on the Phonogram label.