E.K's Band - Sankofa (Go Back and Retrieve)

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

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K. K.'s No.2 - Odo Na Abusua (1976)

Don't know much about this one other than its some lovely, bubbling highlife from Ghana. Sunny music for a winter night.

Tracklist:

		Side 1: Medley
		Yene Me Nka
		Mewu A Na Mobesu Me
		Abusua Ne Wo Ara
		Papa Ma Me Bi Nni
		Obra Ye Bona
		Side 2: Medley
		Mfa Nhye Obi
		Kasekenken
		Wo Begyaa Me
		Odo Bra

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P.S. This is a very crackly record!