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Various Artists - If You Want to Make a Lover: Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. I '2023

If You Want to Make a Lover: Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. I
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Album name If You Want to Make a Lover: Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. I
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Date 2023
GenreFolk
Play time 73 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 270 MB
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The first part in a collection encompassing Akan blues, palm wine and early
guitar-based highlife music, with recordings dating from the late 1920s through
to the end of the 1950s.

"The music included here can probably all be said to have all stemmed from a
style that initially took root in the Fanti region of coastal southern Ghana.
Fusing local percussion instruments with the introduction of western (most
notably Portuguese) guitars that had made their way to the Fanti region of
southern Ghana via the Kru seamen of Liberia, who are said to have pioneered the
distinctive two-fingered style of playing while sailing the high seas.

Mingling amongst the Kru as well as with other sailors and local working-class
people during the 1920s & 30s, the guitars infused with the traditional Akan
seprewa harp-playing technique, creating a style known as 'odonson' or 'Akan
blues' - a rootsy highlife style also commonly referred to as palm wine music,
so named after the palm wine bars where the music was commonly performed.
Western record companies such as Zonophone, Columbia, Odeon, HMV, and later
Decca/EMI's West Africa imprint, released much of the recordings included here -
with the earliest inclusions appearing courtesy of George William Aingo,
Nicholas De Heer, Edmund Tagoe & Frank Essien, and Jacob Sam's Kumasi Trio (all
recorded in London during the late 1920s). The form would become a key element
in the popular development of both Ghanaian & Nigerian highlife, as well as the
maringa of Sierra Leone, the juju of western Nigeria, and the Congolese "dry"
guitar music of central Africa."

Tracklist:
1.01 - The Three Night Wizards - Money! Money! (2:45)
1.02 - Ononkwo Aigwe & Group - Ebe Awalam Di (2:26)
1.03 - Edmund Tagoe - Mami Dede Dsi Mi Lobi (2:49)
1.04 - Kumasi Trio - Yaa Amponsah Pt. 1 (2:52)
1.05 - E.K. Anang's Band - Onua Do (3:13)
1.06 - Nicholas de Heer - Insu Aimuna (3:03)
1.07 - Appiah Adjekum's Band - Owu Atwere (3:12)
1.08 - Gyak's Guitar Band - Kumasi E.D. (2:49)
1.09 - George Williams Aingo - Mboko (2:58)
1.10 - Instrumental Trio (Conducted by George Williams Aingo) - - Chidei Wydul
(2:54)
1.11 - Kumasi Trio - Yaa Amponsah Pt. 2 (2:51)
1.12 - Nicholas de Heer - Kuasie Awissa (3:00)
1.13 - Daniel H. Acqaah - Bira David Dzi Hin (3:04)
1.14 - Irewolede Denge - Orin Asape Eko (2:57)
1.15 - Ononkwo Aigwe & His Musical Group - Oye Ilom (2:33)
1.16 - Nkonu & His Party - Maka Ifi Ego (2:50)
1.17 - Owoo Kodjo Band - Maa Ye Mobo (2:37)
1.18 - Manukure's Band - Ohiani Asem Nye Asem (2:42)
1.19 - Kwasi Gatsey's Band - Nusianu Si Adzo (2:54)
1.20 - Kwame Boakyi & His Band - Kohwe Wo Kunu Ayease (2:41)
1.21 - Kwaa Mensah & His Fanti Trio - Wa Sun Szi Domo (2:43)
1.22 - Kosi Gatsey Band - Hadizan Mairam (2:31)
1.23 - Kojo Bio's Band - Ode Brebre Be Ko (2:48)
1.24 - Ishie Brothers - Agi Onyeasaba (2:45)
1.25 - D.O. Willies Band - Sika Tu Se Anomaa (2:41)
1.26 - The Three Night Wizards - Nwaoba (2:38)

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