Otis Mensah

Jazz At The Lescar are really excited to present a unique and intimate performance by British-born, Berlin-based artist Otis Mensah featuring a full band; an electrifying and vivid blend of poetry and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and race, and a sonic practise drawn from a rich lineage of Black musicality.

With music that shows a strong influence from the rhythmic and expressive freedom of jazz, and as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, Otis has also published a debut poetry collection 'Safe Metamorphosis' and has performed live at Glastonbury Music Festival, We Out Here, Fusion, XJAZZ Festival, and shared stages with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz.