Worlasi announces ‘groundbreaking’ album VIMH for 2025
Ghanaian artist, Worlasi is set to launch his bold new album project, VIMH (Voices in My Head), in 2025. The first single and accompanying video from the album will debut in the first quarter, marking the beginning of a year-long artistic journey.
Worlasi calls it his “deepest and most daring project yet,” with VIMH letting go of rules and expectations about how his music is supposed to sound, what it is supposed to say, and where it is supposed to be received.
Drawing together digital and ancestral technologies, VIMH will be platformed as an audiovisual on YouTube, with each single emerging one at a time throughout 2025 while the album evolves organically. The project explores mental health, Afro-indigenous knowledge systems, culture and masculinity, and ecological relations through a nexus of rhythm, melody, memory, colour, texture, and intonation.
Following on the heels of Worlasi’s earlier mental health-themed projects—NUS3 and The.rap.y—VIMH serves as both an art piece and a project of social and psychological reckoning.
“This is me, this is my people, these are my ancestors. I’m letting go of the rules, receiving what is coming to me, and following what I truly want to create,” says Worlasi.
Live on December 29
To celebrate the launch of VIMH, Worlasi will perform live at The Place Beach Bar in Accra on December 29, 2024, giving fans an exclusive opportunity to experience new material from the album along with his signature tracks like “Perfection,” “Jealousy,” and “Mawena.”
Through VIMH, Worlasi channels his subconscious, learns from intergenerational knowledge-keepers, and translates his literary and liminal content into pulsing vibrations of pixels and sound. The process of making the album is also an intimate and introspective transformation that plays out on the public stage in real-time.
In VIMH, Worlasi invites audiences to confront the voices in their heads and discover their most present, powerful, and connected selves. “What have we lost, what remains, and how could we regenerate it from where we stand?”
About Worlasi
Worlasi is a multi-talented, award-winning Ghanaian rapper, singer, songwriter, and music producer who hails originally from Ghana’s Volta region. His songs are a mixture of soul and hip-hop, blended with an African flavour, and are famous for their refreshing and inspiring lyrics.
A versatile artist, Worlasi effortlessly switches from singing to rapping in multiple languages such as English, Ewe, Ghanaian Pidgin, Fante, and Ga and on his tracks. Worlasi has worked and secured features with some of Ghana’s top artists like Sarkodie, Reggie Rockstone, Kwabena Kwabena, EL, M.anifest, Hammer of Da Last Two, Wanlov, Sena Dagadu and Kwaw Kese.
Worlasi won Best Alternative artist/song of the year at the 3Music Awards in Ghana and has had multiple VGMA nominations over his 9-year career.
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