Va - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Nigeria & Ghana (2002)

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Artist: Various Artists

Title: The Rough Guide to the Music of Nigeria & Ghana

Year Of Release: 2002

Label: World Music Network [RGNET1075CD]

Genre: Afrobeat, Funk, World, Folk, Ethnic

Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks +.cue,log,scans)

Total Time: 1:13:54

Total Size: 178 mb / 468 mb

 

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With 400 ethnic groups in Nigeria alone, The Rough Guide to the Music of Nigeria & Ghana (from the Rough Guide series) covers a vast canvas. So it's no wonder--and probably a sensible idea--that Fela Kuti, the Nigerian singer best known in the West, should not be included (on the grounds that his records are ubiquitous anyway). What is included here is dominated by that quintessentially mid-20th-century style known as highlife, best exemplified by its undisputed king E.T. Mensah. With his old-fashioned diction and immense charm, Mensah rides along on a gracefully Westernized instrumental sound. King Sunny Ade, who displaced him (and who was briefly picked up by Western promoters as a potential West African Bob Marley), prefers hard-driving rhythms and clean a cappella choruses. But on this superb CD charm is the key element, with a multitude of variations on local rhythms and instrumental combinations. Check out the two-string gourd molo, as played with brilliant panache by Captain Yaba; or revel in some of West Africa's best-loved party tracks, including those by C.K. Mann and Eric Agyeman. There's up-to-the-minute stuff from expatriate bands in America, and a wonderfully atmospheric gig with the most recent highlife king, Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe. --Michael Church

TRACKLISTING:

 

1. Okin Omo Ni (The King Of The Children) - I.K. Dairo

2. Maa Jo - King Sunny Ade & His African Beats

3. Funky Hi-Life - C.K. Mann

4. Asiko - Tony Allen

5. Neribalankina - Captain Yaba

6. Fuji Shuffle - Adewale Ayuba

7. Bra Ohoho - E.K. Nyame

8. Joromi ? Monkey Yanga - Sir Victor Uwaifo

9. Day By Day - E.T. Mensah

10. Matutu Mirika - Eric Agyeman

11. Oyolima - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

12. Fakye Me - Sweet Talks Featuring A.B Crentsil

13. Baawo - Amanzeba Nat Brew

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