Classic High Life / Various

Great music

I love African HighLife music, with its pulsing rhythms and polyrhythms and its driving guitars and drums. It's like latin-rock from the likes of Santana and Pete Escovedo but with the exuberance that typifies much music from Africa.

Great highlife

And since this is predominately a Ghanaian collection, the emphasis is on pop sweetness. Classic 1970s highlife: basically "Yaa Amponsah"-style guitar bands with horn sections influenced by soukous from Congo/Zaire. Most of the Ghanaian stars of this period are represented. This was arguably the golden age of Ghanaian pop music, before the economy completely collapsed, and most of the musicians fled for Europe. The inimitable A.B Crentsil/Sweet Talks/Super Sweet Talks/Sweet Talks International agglomeration represented by "Abeye Amawo" in which during the coda/fadeout Crentsil lists roughly half the musicians on this disk (including this collection's producer)who will "help out Sister Adjoa"...Teddy Osei/Mac Tontoh/Osibisa amalgamation appear on three cuts: "Kwaa-Kwaa," "Pete-Pete," and an (innappropriately?)upbeat cover of "Malaika" in which the Ghanians joyfully mangle Swahili. "Matutu Mirika" and "Odo Bra" are from Eric Agyeman's 1979 "Highlife Safari." The ever populist Gyedu-Blay Ambulley contributes an updated "Cut Your Coat" in which he complains about "managers conniving with the traders" and advocates soaking the rich. George Darko and Jewell Ackah are among the other stars of that era who appear on this collection.

this is a must . go get it! being a ghanaian in the U.S. I must say that Ghanaian music has gone far

It is the best cd you can put into your player when you are driving to work on a cold and grey November morning - after the first chords you can't stop moving to the rhythm! Before buying the CD I didn't know it was dedicated to King Potato - when I read it in the booklet my joy was multiplied a thousand times. A wonderful collection of music which you doon't hear too often nowadays as everybody is trying to go ater the "Western" style. Thank you for the music!

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