Okou has been played on NTS shows including Phil's Jazz Dis-Junction, with Blue Cycles first played on 3 February 2013.

Okou was born from the encounter between singer/songwriter Tatiana Heintz and guitarist/composer Gilbert Trefzger in a Parisian bar.

Tatiana, from the Ivory Coast, spent most of her nomadic childhood and teenage years discovering new horizons from the West African continent to Europe. To then settle for a while in London, where she worked with various musicians such as Keziah Jones, Mick Jagger, Nuspirit Helsinki, The Five Corners Quintet, Shaun Escauffery and more.

Gilbert is from Switzerland with Egyptian roots. He started playing guitar at the age of…