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Ghana Special Volume 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora 1980-93

New to Soundway Records comes this second edition of Ghana Special, a comprehensive compilation of ’80s Ghanaian-diasporic highlife and its embrace of synthesiser and new wave elements. 20 years on from the first compilation in the series, which was released in 2009 and focused on modern and contemporary forms of highlife, this second volume focuses more on tracing the development of the sound as it took on increasingly synthetic forms. The scheme of things goes something like this: drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and Ghanaian musicians began incorporating US disco and boogie, r&b, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music. A kind of socioeconomic history lesson conjoins this musicology: the eighties saw unrestricted migration policies in Western nations in the postcolonial era, which enabled new crossover industries to flourish. Thus the music you hear on this compilation was born, and thrived, and continues to thrive.

A1

Ebe Ye Yie Ni

A2

Gye Wani

A3

Sii Nana

B1

Obiara Bewu

B2

M.C. Mambo

B3

Adjoa Amisa

C1

Anoma Koro

C2

Alaiye

C3

New Dance

D1

Barima Nsu

D2

Otanhunu

D3

Asafo

E1

Jigi Jigi

E2

Apple

E3

Fre Me (Call Me)

F1

George Darko

F2

Mumude

F3

Asobrachie

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