Here is a groovy slice of Ghanaian Highlife from one of the originators of the form. E.K. Nyame started performing in the late '40s, formed his own band in the '50s and brought respectability to the music of the palm-wine bars. Here you'll find spidery, picked guitars, mandolin, thumping double bass, super afro-latin percussion, theatrical harmonising and gorgeous clarinet. This album appears to be re-recordings of some of E.K. Nyame's earlier hits, but I have no clue as to when the tracks were originally recorded, or re-recorded for that matter.
Tracklist:
01 Small Boy Nye Me Bia 02 Onipa a Oyee Me Mahu Wo 03 Maye Maye Minni Aye 04 To Menna Mu Awurade 05 Minni Agya Minni Nna 06 Amane A Mahu 07 Awurade Iesu Beba 08 Boafo Yena 09 Onipa A Ode Nade 10 Nokware Asa 11 Agya Nyame Ni Wakyi 12 Owuo Busuoni
Thanks for diversifying, and this ensures stability and longevity of the african music shared! The new storage system "ZIP" works well and the file is easily unpackable. Keep it up Adoyo P.A. Nairobi Kenya
The music is, of course, for evaluation purposes only. If you like what you hear then go out and try and buy stuff...or something, give money to a down on his luck musician, or sponsor a good busker, it may be the start of something beautiful.
If any of the zips die, then post a comment and i'll try to repost. And leave comments, abuse, name calling, any response is welcome.
I think all of the albums posted are currently unavailable, but if this is not the case we'll remove the offending files.
4 comments:
Thanks for diversifying, and this ensures stability and longevity of the african music shared! The new storage system "ZIP" works well and the file is easily unpackable.
Keep it up
Adoyo P.A.
Nairobi Kenya
Thanks, the new storage system works fine - very simple and works better than the likes of Rapidshare for example.
one of my favorite highlife vocalists, thx!
ZIP works fast & smoothy! you adfraid rapid goes down like rapid?
Easy DL; thank you for the album!
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