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Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion in 70's Ghana
Artist
Various Artists
Label
Soundway Records
Catalogue Number
SNDWLP001
Release Date
January 27, 2017

Ghana Soundz was the first ever Soundway compilation and became recognised worldwide due to the licensing of the Oscar Sulley track, ‘Bukom Mashie’ to the soundtrack of Hollywood blockbuster, ‘Last King of Scotland’.

Pounding rhythms, blaring horns and pumping vocals – the music is a document of a time forgotten when flares and Cuban heels strutted the streets and night-spots of Accra, the sizzlingly hot and humid capital of Ghana. Influenced as much by traditional rhythms and local highlife as by the music of Fela Kuti, James Brown and Santana, these tunes had almost become extinct – until now!

Ghana Soundz was the first of three collections of rare afro-beat, afro-funk and afro-fusion that Miles Cleret painstakingly travelled the length and breadth of Ghana to assemble, the third compilation to be released late 2009.

“Seriously danceable form start to finish” – MOJO

“A West African Funk explosion”

  • New York Times

Digital Tracklist

  1. 2 Bukom Mashie Oscar Sulley, The Uhuru Dance Band 5:07 Buy

    Bukom Mashie

  2. 4 Heaven Ebo Taylor 6:05 Buy

    Heaven

  3. 5 Simigwado Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and The Steneboofs 4:38 Buy

    Simigwado

  4. 7 Ageisheka The Ogyatanaa Show Band 5:02 Buy

    Ageisheka

  5. 9 Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena K Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas 7:51 Buy

    Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena

  6. 12 Make It Fast, Make It Slow Rob 5:25 Buy

    Make It Fast, Make It Slow

  7. 13 W'awu Do Ho No Alex Konadu 3:11 Buy

    W'awu Do Ho No

  8. 14 Nite Safarie The Black Star Sound 3:24 Buy

    Nite Safarie

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