Free Youth – We Can Move
https://amf.didiermary.fr/free-youth-we-can-move/
Free Youth released the single “We Can Move” in 1985, one of the first known examples of Ghanaian HipHop, emerging at the dawn of “HipLife” (HipHop meets Highlife). It was the trio’s only release and originally pressed on 7″ vinyl.
MoBlack Feat. King Ayisoba – MeKa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/moblack-king-ayisoba-meka/
Mimmo Falcone aka MoBlack is a DJ and producer, specializing in AfroHouse. With King Ayisoba.
Listen to multiple remixes on Spotify.
Kobi Onyame Feat. Wanlov the Kubolor – Still We Rise
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kobi-onyame-wanlov-kubolor-still-rise/
UK-based Ghanaian independent recording hip-hop artist, producer and songwriter Kobi Onyame meets Wanlov the Kubolor for a hazy trip through the mountains of Ghana.
MzVee – Come and See My Moda Feat. Yemi Alade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mzvee-come-see-moda-yemi-alade/
Music video in 2018 by talented Ghanaian songstress MzVee featuring Nigerian singer Yemi Alade in their new collaboration titled “Come and See My Moda,” produced by Kuami Eugene and Richie Mensah.
MzVee – Sing My Name Feat. Patoranking
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mzvee-sing-my-name-feat-patoranking/
2 versions of “Sing My Name” by MzVee, one with the Nigerian reggae-dancehall singer Patoranking, and the other with Willisbeatz.
Blitz the Ambassador – JuJu Girl
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blitz-ambassador-juju-girl/
JuJu Girl is the first single from Blitz the Ambassador‘s album “Diasporadical,” released in 2016. Video shot in Ghana.
Worlasi – Pawa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/worlasi-pawa/
Worlasi is a multilingual singer, rapper, songwriter and music producer, from the Volta region of Ghana. He sings in his native language Ewe, as well as Fante, Ga and Pidgin throughout his music.
Coz Ov Moni (World’s 1st Pidgin Musical!)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/coz-ov-moni-world-first-pidgin-musical/
Coz Ov Moni is the story of 2 friends in Accra who wake up one morning. They have plans for the night… but they must collect on a debt by midday.
A 2010 musical film, written by M3NSA & Wanlov Kubolor (FOKN Bois).
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Sekondi Band live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-ambolley-sekondi-band-live/
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Sekondi Band, live. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, born in 1947, veteran sax player, still on stage! He is sometimes referred to as the “James Brown of Ghana”. Not without reason… Born in the city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa, now legendary Gyedu-Blay Ambolley exploded on the music scene […]
Alogte Oho Jonas & His Sounds Of Joy
https://amf.didiermary.fr/alogte-oho-jonas-sounds-joy/
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy were discovered via their single “Mam Yinne Wa,” which was released in 2016 (see below) and their debut album of the same name from 2019.
Here’s their new album “O Yinne!“.
hat’s not Gospel, but Frafra-Gospel!
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Ghana Soundz: AfroBeat, Funk & Fusion in the 70’s
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ghana-soundz/
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 […]
Onipa – Open my Eyes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-open-my-eyes/
Onipa’s debut single “Open My Eyes” sets the tone for their high octane fusion of styles, weaving together Congolese guitars lines, disco drums, synth bass and K.O.G’s distinctive pidgin rap. The song tells us how in a world full of confusion and distraction, we sometimes need to look inside ourselves for the answers. […]
Onipa – Off the Grid
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-off-the-grid/
Off the Grid by Onipa is a journey that joins the origin story of dance rhythms from Africa to electronic dance music of today’s clubs and festivals, connecting African folklore and storytelling to rap, jazz and hip hop.
Video shot around the coast of Accra in Ghana. […]
“Cool Cats Invasion” is a classic collection (102 tracks) of Highlife, Palm-wine music & Jùjú from Nigeria & Ghana, from the 50’s & 60’s.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cool-cats-invasion-highlife/
This compilation includes unavailable tracks by Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, as well as legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti‘s first recordings of […]
#50smusic #60smusic #Compilation #Ghana #JujuMusic #Nigeria #PalmWineMusic
Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-introducing-hedzoleh-soundz/
Leader Stanley Todd Kwesi assembled a monster ensemble of musicians from the Ghana Arts Council, intending to form a new Afro-Rock group, known as Hedzoleh Soundz, that would be more traditional & African in sound, and hopefully surpass Osibisa in popularity (alas it was not to be).
Hedzoleh Soundz were a band from […]
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife
https://amf.didiermary.fr/electronic-highlife-ghana-special-2/
“Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93” is a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat #Electro
RIP Nana Ampadu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-nana-ampadu/
Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, Nana Ampadu (Nana Kwame Ampadu), died on September 28, 2021.
In this interview from 2007, historian Jennifer Hart talks with him about the music that made him famous: God was everywhere in the street.
African Head Charge – A Bad Attitude
https://amf.didiermary.fr/african-head-charge-a-bad-attitude/
From album “A Trip To Bolgatanga” by African Head Charge with King Ayisoba.
From the long-running studio and live collaboration between master Jamaican percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and English dub producer Adrian Sherwood.
“A Trip To Bolgatanga” is a musical journey to founder member Bonjo’s current hometown in north Ghana. A psychedelic travelogue [...]
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas – Me Yee Owu Den
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cubano-fiestas-me-yee-owu-den/
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas, from AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS – West African Shock Waves – Ghana & Togo 1972-1979
Organ-driven Afrobeat, cosmic Afrofunk and raw, psychedelic boogie… just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation.
Basa Basa Soundz Feat. Fela Kuti – Dr Solutsu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/basa-basa-soundz-dr-solutsu-fela-kuti/
Ghanaian Afro-pop group, Basa Basa Soundz visited Lagos, Nigeria in 1976 to record an album at Decca Records. Afro beat legend, Fela Kuti was around the studios at that time and he liked what he heard of the band and he decided to record a track with them and it was “Dr. Solutsu.” […]
Rocky Dawuni – African Thriller
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rocky-dawuni-african-thriller/
“Performing his self-described ‘Afro-Roots’ sound, a fusion of reggae and Afrobeat groove, few artists have a more positive vibe than Rocky. His show is an incandescent Afro-Roots dance party.”
— LA Weekly
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Santrofi – Alewa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/santrofi-alewa/
Santrofi is a young allstar band from Ghana, an 8 piece collective made up of a young generation of awarded musicians who have backed anyone in Ghana from Sarkodie to 2Face Idibia. Their mission is to bring Highlife back, not only to the world but also to Ghana, where the young generation has forgotten all […]
Blue Lab Beats – Motherland Journey
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blue-lab-beats-motherland-journey/
Blue Lab Beats are a London-based music duo, nominated since 2021 for multiple awards. They won a Grammy award in 2022 for their production on Angelique Kidjo’s Mother Nature. Their third album was released in February 2022 on Blue Note Records, and recorded in Ghana with Killbeatz. […]
Gato Preto – Barulho
https://amf.didiermary.fr/barulho-gato-preto-mendinga-carnival/
Gato Preto, with roots in Ghana, Portugal and Mozambique, mixes music styles, some like Kuduro or Favela Funk with the electronic vibes of AfroHouse.
In “Barulho,” Gato Petro goes even further : it’s Angolan Kuduro meets Punk & Metal with distorted guitars in an afrofuturistic or afro-postapocalyptic video.
Ebo Taylor – Love & Death
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ebo-taylor-love-death/
Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian guitarist, composer, bandleader, producer & Highlife musician. Here’s his first internationally released solo album in 2009, “Love And Death” where he reprises some of his ’70s classics alongside some new compositions, all backed by Berlin collective Afrobeat Academy.
