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Ghana: High-Life And Other Popular Music
By Saka Acquaye
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Sugar Soup
2. Down the Congo
3. Saturday Night
4. Drum Festival
5. Concomba
6. Beyond Africa
7. Congo Beat
8. Echoes of the African Forest
9. Bus Conductor
10. Ebony
11. Kenya Sunset
12. Awuben
13. Akudonno
Saka Acquaye and His African Ensemble: Ghana: High-Life And Other Popular Music
by AAJ Staff
With all the sophistication that accompanied highlife's ascendancy as the popular music of West Africa, its roots remain somewhat obscured. Highlife, born in Ghana, incorporates rhythmic styles and instruments from Cuba and the Caribbean, jazz styles from America, and traditional music from West Africa. In the '50s, it was a revolutionary mix. By the '60s, highlife ...