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Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)

Read "African Party (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Tony Poole


George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...

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The Apples - Dragonz

Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2017

Album

Black Notes from the Deep

Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Rules; You Know Who You Are; Darker Than the Blue; Rivers of Blood; In Another Time; The Morning After the Night Before; Change Is Sure to Come; How Many More; Butterfly; A Word to the Wise

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African Party

Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Jool Omo; Adura; Witchdoctor; Ire; Talking Drum; Lord Morocco; A You Momma ; Watusi; Alegre; Hi Life.

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Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party

Read "African Party" reviewed by John Eyles


The release of the compilation album Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway Records, 2015) threw light on the often-neglected role that the London scene of the fifties and sixties played in the development of Highlife and Afrobeat music, during a time before the term “World Music" had ...

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Underground Tracks 70's

Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2006

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Underground Peace Music

Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2005


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