Cousticks was founded in 1990 by Nigeria’s exciting and accomplished instrumentalist and performing Artiste Clement Onyekachukwu Ule. Cousticks is at the cutting edge of contemporary African music pushing back the frontiers of traditional African musical patterns and correlating with other continental musical patterns from around the world to rearticulate the unique experience and expressive cultures of the African diaspora around the world.
Cousticks an appurtenance to church organisation, as worked both as choir master and music director for churches till date in training up choir, working with instrumentalist and with sound engineers.
Cousticks is a seasoned Drum Instructor and Music Director for the Osun Arts Organisation in Liverpool. Cousticks has worked with the collective artiste since 1997 till date on myriads of performance studio workshop projects. Cousticks has been the music producer on percussive forms for the BBC “wetin de” (a soup opera TV series) and “story story” (a radio play series). Cousticks has been music director for numerous projects including the Heart of Africa project (which toured five continents), National sports festival, National festival of arts and culture, the world dance day celebration, dance meets dance of the French cultural centre and the Lagos state annual schools festival of arts and culture (Surufest) at which he was honoured with an award of a cultural ambassador.
In 2001 Cousticks spent several months in Japan as part of the African Japanese cultural exchange group program. Cousticks is also a consultant and resource personnel on instrumentation for the state councils of arts culture in Nigeria and in the Nigerian Universities of creative arts departments. Cousticks has worked with well-known directors, professors and doctors of the arts both nationally and internationally. Cousticks stage credits includes: Drums of War, things fall apart, tegoni, wedlock of the gods, king Emene, farewell to cannibal rage, macbutu (an adaptation of Macbeth), muse before the millennium, lanterns, symphony of fire, sakobi, Nsibidi to mention a few. Cousticks is a member of the Dance guild of Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian theatre artiste practional and the Gongbeat Arts Company.