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Ghana Special Volume 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora 1980-93 (gatefold 3xLP + booklet)
Soundway
Cat: SNDWLP 148. Rel: 13 May 24
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| Side 1 - Track 1. The Godfathers - Ebe Ye Yie Ni |
| Side 1 - Track 2. Pat Thomas - Gye Wani |
| Side 1 - Track 3. Bessa Simons - Sii Nana |
| Side 2 - Track 1. Rex Gyamfi - Obiara Bewu |
| Side 2 - Track 2. Pepper, Onion, Ginger & Salt - MC Mambo |
| Side 2 - Track 3. Andy Vans - Adjoa Amisa (edit) |
| Side 3 - Track 1. Starlite - Anoma Koro (edit) |
| Side 3 - Track 2. Abdul Raheem - Alaiye |
| Side 3 - Track 3. Ernest Honny - New Dance |
| Side 4 - Track 1. Kwasi Afari Minta - Barima Nsu (edit) |
| Side 4 - Track 2. Marijata - Otanhunu |
| Side 4 - Track 3. Jon K - Asafo |
| Side 5 - Track 1. Dadadi - Jigi Jigi |
| Side 5 - Track 2. Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Apple |
| Side 5 - Track 3. Charles Amoah - Fre Me (Call Me) |
| Side 6 - Track 1. George Darko - Kaakyire Nua |
| Side 6 - Track 2. Nan Mayen - Mumude |
| Side 6 - Track 3. Nana Budjei - Asobrachie |
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.