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Track Listings
| 1. Because Of Money - 3rd Generation Band |
| 2. Bukom Mashie - Sulley, Oscar & The Uhuru Dance Band |
| 3. Mother Africa - Marijata |
| 4. Heaven - Taylor, Ebo |
| 5. Simigwado - Ambolley, Gyedu Blay & The Steneboofs |
| 6. Eyi Su Ngaangaa - Sweet Talks |
| 7. Ageisheka - Ogyatanaa Show Band |
| 8. Psychedelic Woman - Honny & The Bees Band |
| 9. Hwehwe Na Yi Wo Mpena - Frimpong, K. & His Cubano Fiestas |
| 10. Kwaku Ananse - Apagya Show Band |
| 11. Self Reliance - African Brothers International Band (1) |
| 12. Make It Fast Make It Slow - Rob (2) |
| 13. W'aha Do Ho No - Konadu, Alex |
| 14. Nite Safarie - Black Star Sound |
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A true historical landmark, Ghana Soundz: Afrobeat Funk & Fusion in 70's was produced by an Englishman named Miles Cleret who spent two years in Ghana hunting for rare master tapes and information about a sparsely documented and under-appreciated genre. He not only has fabulous ears, but also wrote the exhaustively detailed, infectiously enthusiastic liner notes.
A true historical landmark, Ghana Soundz: Afrobeat Funk & Fusion in 70's was produced by an Englishman named Miles Cleret who spent two years in Ghana hunting for rare master tapes and information about a sparsely documented and under-appreciated genre. He not only has fabulous ears, but also wrote the exhaustively detailed, infectiously enthusiastic liner notes.
During the 1960s, Highlife was the reigning musical craze in Ghana, but Western-derived rock and R & B influences were seeping in, creating a daringly experimental jazz-funk scene. Big bands combined home-grown drumming and chanting with cheeky, slapping bass lines, motel-bar organs, and guitars that wah-wahed their way from Muscle Shoals to Haight-shbury. These elements were typically, but not universally, augmented by braying horn sections whose soloists seemed to be channeling Miles and Bird. The closest African equivalent was Fela Anikulapo Kuti's huge, James Brownsian travelling mayhem machine, but even that priapic Nigerian icon's antics seem tame next to some of these tracks. --Christina Roden, Amazon.com
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74% buy the item featured on this page: Ghana Soundz Vol.1: Afrobeat Funk & Fusion in 1970's Ghana £7.98 |
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