Name: Ghana Soundz: Afrobeat Funk & Fusion 70's
Brand: Various Artist

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-SNDW-001

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-08-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

801647200118

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Total Cap

LPx2

Artist

Various Artist

Genre US

African

Label US

Soundway

Finally repressed after nearly 10 years out of print, this is the seminal debut release from Soundway Records. Ghana Soundz was born out of an idea by compiler and Soundway founder Miles Cleret and led to a series of projects dedicated to Ghanaian music. Pounding rhythms, blaring horns and pumping vocals - the music featured is a document of a time forgotten when flares and Cuban heels strutted the streets and night-spots of Accra, the sizzling hot and humid capital of Ghana. Influenced as much by traditional rhythms and local highlife as by the music of Fela Kuti, James Brown and Santana, these tunes had almost become extinct. The music was collated by Miles Cleret who spent three painstaking years traveling the length and breadth of Ghana. The result was a treasure trove of Ghanaian highlife, Afrobeat and funk of which most had never been released outside of Africa and some tracks that had never even left the studio floor.

Ghana Soundz: Afrobeat Funk & Fusion 70's

Music US