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The Black Album
ReleaseProduct
The Black Album
Artist
K Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas
Label
Soundway Records
Catalogue Number
SNDWLP184
Release Date
26 September 2025

  • Blue and Black Bundle:

    $37.99

    • The Black Album Vinyl, 1×LP Vinyl LP

    • The Blue Album Vinyl, 1×LP

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Alhaji K Frimpong’s 1977 Highlife masterpiece, melding traditional Ghanaian musical forms with experimental instrumentation and innovative arrangements.

The Black Album expands the electronic elements and features the visionary Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena, although the real gem is hiding on the B side: the extended groove of “Adam Nana”. Sinuously evolving guitar lines, clavinet vamps, harmonised vocal snatches and otherworldly percussion expand and contract over a full quarter of an hour - a Ghanaian repost to the Afro Jazz experiments going on at the same time on the other side of the Atlantic.

Although popular in Ghana at the time of the release, the album was never distributed internationally and original copies of the album are extremely rare. The album got a limited reissue in 2011 and has been unavailable since - even reissue copies sell for high prices on the second hand market.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena 7:53 Buy

    Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena

  2. 2 Asase Si Yo 5:44 Buy

    Asase Si Yo

  3. 3 Awisia 5:22 Buy

    Awisia

  4. 4 Adam Nana 13:59 Buy

    Adam Nana

K Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas

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