Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Sekondi Band live
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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Sekondi Band, live. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, born in 1947, veteran sax player, still on stage! He is sometimes referred to as the “James Brown of Ghana”. Not without reason… Born in the city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa, now legendary Gyedu-Blay Ambolley exploded on the music scene […]
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!“.
hat’s not Gospel, but Frafra-Gospel!
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Ghana Soundz: AfroBeat, Funk & Fusion in the 70’s
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Pounding rhythms, blaring horns and pumping vocals – the music is a document of a time forgotten when flares and Cuban heels strutted the streets and night-spots of Accra, the sizzlingly hot and humid capital of Ghana. Influenced as much by traditional rhythms and local highlife […]
The Lost 70s Live Shows – Osibisa
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Osibisa, Lost 70s Live Shows, is a stunning snapshot of seminal Afro Rock icons, performing material from their first two albums live in Europe!
Fully restored and professionally remastered original broadcasts By fusing the sounds of Africa with western rock and prog influences, Osibisa can lay claim to being one of the most original-sounding groups […]
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. […]
Onipa – Off the Grid
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Off the Grid by Onipa is a journey that joins the origin story of dance rhythms from Africa to electronic dance music of today’s clubs and festivals, connecting African folklore and storytelling to rap, jazz and hip hop.
Video shot around the coast of Accra in Ghana. […]
“Cool Cats Invasion” is a classic collection (102 tracks) of Highlife, Palm-wine music & Jùjú from Nigeria & Ghana, from the 50’s & 60’s.
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This compilation includes unavailable tracks by Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, as well as legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti‘s first recordings of […]
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Ghana Special
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Featured track from the Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981 album.
“Akoko Ba” by Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Creations
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, [...]
Atumpan ‘Talking’ Drums – Ghana, 1921
Kofi Jatto, an Asante man performing phrases of talking drum language on atumpan drums for an audio recording and photograph made by India-born Scottish anthropologist Robert Sutherland Rattray in 1921.
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“The drum phrases were recorded on wax cylinder by Rattray in Ghana in 1921. The Asante king’s atumpan player sends messages across the kingdom, plays […]
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. [...]
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RIP Nana Ampadu
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Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, Nana Ampadu (Nana Kwame Ampadu), died on September 28, 2021.
In this interview from 2007, historian Jennifer Hart talks with him about the music that made him famous: God was everywhere in the street.
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 travelogue [...]
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. Their third album was released in February 2022 on Blue Note Records, and recorded in Ghana with Killbeatz. […]
Ebo Taylor – Love & Death
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Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian guitarist, composer, bandleader, producer & Highlife musician. Here’s his first internationally released solo album in 2009, “Love And Death” where he reprises some of his ’70s classics alongside some new compositions, all backed by Berlin collective Afrobeat Academy.
Osei Korankye – Seperewa Highlife
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The seperewa, also known as seprewa or sanku, is a Ghanaian (specifically Akan) harp-lute and belongs to a class of harp-lute chordophones typical in West Africa. They are recognisable by their square wooden box resonator, which differ from the calabash ones used for Manding harp-lutes like the kora or kamele n’goni. […]
Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu – You Need Love
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Conflict was originally released in 1980 and was partially remade as part of Taylorʼs 2009 “Love and Death” album. […]
Locomotive Train (Keteke)
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Released to coincide with the Ghanaian Independence Day celebrations on 6th March 2024, African Brothers Band International of Ghana’s “Locomotive Train (Keteke)” album is a fine example of the band’s fusion of Highlife, guitar based Rock and Reggae.
Originally formed as The African Brothers in 1963 as a concert party, the band has had a […]
