ESINAM

Esinam Dogbatse is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist based in Brussels. With her artist moniker ESINAM, she creates a musical world of her own, filled with rhythms, grooves, melodies and loops.

Solely carried away by sound, ESINAM succeeds in blending her soulful voice with traditional African percussion, adding here and there some electronic influences combined with sensible melodies and flute improvisations. .

After starting her solo career as a “one woman band” – sampling and looping all instruments herself to build her tracks – she recently invited other musicians to join her in order to have a full live band. Still performing with both her solo and band set-up, ESINAM always unveils herself by orchestrating an authentic music full of poetry, with rhythms and melodies that make her a unique voice in today’s jazz-and-beyond scene.

ESINAM's self-titled debut EP was released on Sdban Records in September 2018. Very favourably received by the press, the music sector and the public, she has already been invited to play on famous stages: New Morning (FR), Botanique / Les Nuits (BE), Eurosonic (NL), Europavox (FR), Prague Music Festival (CZ), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DK), Accra Jazz Festival (GH), Brussels Jazz Festival (BE), Visa For Music (MA), Bee-Flat (CH), Gamlestaden Jazz Festival (SE), Jazz Re: Freshed (UK), Gent Jazz Festival (BE), ... and has been opening for Mélanie de Biasio, Alsarah & The Nubatones, Selah Sue, Moses Sumney and Mayra Andrade.