Ghana Special: Highlife: Vinyl LP

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Label: Soundway
Release Date: 21st November

Soundway offer up another essential gateway to the rich history of African music, this time focusing on Ghana's Highlife scene with tradition met rock, Afro-soul and jazz. Every track in this is built to get you off your feet.

Seminal sounds from the golden age of Ghanaian music. Highlife, rock, and soul collide and merge with tradition and culture. New styles meet old styles. A new generation renews old musical customs. New fashions meet old fashions, creating new fusions. Features rare tracks from Hedzoleh Soundz, Ogyatanaa Show Band, Honny & the Bees and early Ebo Taylor (Asaasa Sa). These tracks were originally available on vanishingly rare 70s pressings, then a highly collectible 5LP box set released in 2009. This special vinyl edition is produced in conjunction with the James Barnor archive, featuring a previously unpublished 1976 photo from the archive of Ghana’s most famous photographer. Comes with Obi-strip.

Ogyatanaa Show Band - You Monopolise Me
Honny and the Bees Band - Psychedelic Woman
Wellis Band - Bindiga
The Uhuru Dance Band - Yahia Mu
Sawaaba Soundz - Owuo
St. Peter and The Holy Men - Bofoo Beye Abowa Den
Asaase Ase, Ebo Taylor - Ohiani Sua Efir
Hedzoleh Soundz - Edinya Benya
Honny and The Bees Band - Sisi Mbon
The Black Star Sound - Nite Safari