Blue Lab Beats – Motherland Journey
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Blue Lab Beats are a London-based music duo, nominated since 2021 for multiple awards. They won a Grammy award in 2022 for their production on Angelique Kidjo’s Mother Nature.
Here’s their contribution for Blue Note Re:imagined in 2020, with a remix of vibist Bobby Hutcherson’s 1975 classic “Montara.”
Their third album was released in February […]
African Head Charge – A Bad Attitude
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From album “A Trip To Bolgatanga” by African Head Charge with King Ayisoba.
From the long-running studio and live collaboration between master Jamaican percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and English dub producer Adrian Sherwood.
“A Trip To Bolgatanga” is a musical journey to founder member Bonjo’s current hometown in north Ghana. A psychedelic travel [...]
Nana Kwame Ampadu – Yaa Amponsah
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Nana Kwame Ampadu (31 March 1945 – 28 September 2021) was a Ghanaian musician and composer credited with numerous popular highlife tracks and he is known to have composed over 800 songs. He was the lead singer, chief songwriter, and founder of the “African Brothers Band”. He is regarded as a pioneer of highlife music […]
Ogyatanaa – Yaa Amponsah
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In the 1930s, Sam’s Trio, led by Jacob Sam, was the most influential of the highlife guitar-bands. Their “Yaa Amponsah”, three versions of which were recorded in 1928 for Zonophone, was a major hit that remains a popular staple of numerous highlife bands.
The Ogyatanaa Show Band, aka Burning Fire Show Band, was one of […]
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Alogte Oho Jonas & His Sounds Of Joy
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Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy were discovered via their single “Mam Yinne Wa,” which was released in 2016 (see below) and their debut album of the same name from 2019. Here’s their new album “O Yinne!“.
That’s not Gospel, but Frafra-Gospel!
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Vis-A-Vis – Obi Agye Me Dofo
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As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, of which Obi Agye Me Dofo remains the most sought after. Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson “Shaolin Kung-Fu” Papra on drums, they helped propel […]
Ghana Special (updated)
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Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981 compilation.
Ghana Special represents nearly ten years of on-going research in and around the cities of Accra, Tema, Cape Coast, Takoradi and Kumasi, knocking on musician’s doors and visiting ex-distributors, DJs, collectors, manufacturers and shop owners who [...]
Onipa – Open my Eyes
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Onipa’s debut single “Open My Eyes” sets the tone for their high octane fusion of styles, weaving together Congolese guitars lines, disco drums, synth bass and K.O.G’s distinctive pidgin rap. The song tells us how in a world full of confusion and distraction, we sometimes need to look inside ourselves for the answers. […]
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife
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“Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93” is a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. A period of movement [...]
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Free Youth – We Can Move
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Free Youth released the single “We Can Move” in 1985, one of the first known examples of Ghanaian HipHop, emerging at the dawn of “HipLife” (HipHop meets Highlife). It was the trio’s only release and originally pressed on 7″ vinyl.
Ata Kak – Daa Nyinaa
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Ata Kak quickly became a cult classic amongst DJs and underground tastemakers.
The Ghanaian musician, whose real name is Yaw Atta-Owusu, had recorded Obaa Sima in 1994 in Toronto before returning to Ghana in 2006.
Atta moved to Toronto in 1989 where he was invited to play in a […]
