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Various artists from Ghana
The Guitar and the Gun (Earthworks)
$17.99
13 tracks compiled from the 2 volume vinyl set from Earthworks. This is electric highlife recorded between 1981 and 1984, a revolutionary period in west Africa, politically and musicially. These recordings from Bokoor studios are rightly legendary and availabel on CD for the first.
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You should also investigate Guy Warren
| 'Ghanaian highlife from the early 80s, minimally recorded at John Collins' Bokoor Studio. This isn't so much the plush highlife of preceding years, but more of a homespun and definitely edgy expression if sometimes it gets a bit ragged, verve and good spirit carry the day, and when it really does take off - as frequently happens, notably when F. Kenya's Guitar Band are operating - the effect is turbulent. Various styles are described in Collins' explanatory notes dance band highlife, low-class bush highlife, which evolved into modern guitar band highlife music, which again subdivides into gospel highlife, concert party highlife to accompany morality plays and more roots-based 'cultural' highlife. All are represented here, all recorded in the uncertain, curfewed and dangerous days when Jerry Rawlings' revolutionary forces struggled to dislodge power from the incumbent fat-cat kleptocracy.' Rick Sanders, fRoots |
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