Sikyi Medley

Nana Tuffour - Sikyi Medley

From the album "Ghana Awake Volume 1" More information at http://www.themusicindustry.co.za

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A.B. Crentsil is a heavyweight of Highlife music, from Ghana. 

 In 1992, musician Charles Amoah and producer Richie Osei Kuffour offered him the opportunity to explore a new popular sound: Bürger Highlife. 

Little did he know these studio sessions would give birth to the biggest song of his career.

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A.B. Crentsil - Obi Baa Wiase (Snippet)

Gyedu - Blay Ambolley - Akoko Ba

Bassline highlife originally released in 1982

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Hini Me[Kojo Antwi]

Ghana Highlife Ebo Taylor

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Kalita Records and CC:EDITIONS (a new venture by Australia’s CC:DISCO) jointly announce a 12” EP comprised of four of Nana Tuffour’s greatest electronic burger highlife tracks, accompanied by
interview-based liner notes. Here, in partnership with Nana, we select two highly sought-after songs from his 1993 release ‘Genesis’, namely ‘Sikyi Medley’ and ‘M’Anu Me Ho’, and pair them his with two lesser known yet equally deserving tracks ‘Asamando’ and ‘Jesus’ from his 1997 CD-only release ‘Highlife Tropicana’.

Hailing from Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti region in Ghana, Nana Tuffour is by far one of the most important exponents of modern highlife music. He studied piano at college and cut his teeth in
the '70s as an organist and vocalist for the incomparable Kyeremanteng Atwede and Dr. K Gyasi’s Noble Kings Band. Fast forward to 1981 and Ghana was at the apex of its golden age of music. This era was brought to an abrupt end by political upheaval when the military took over the government and as a result a restrictive dusk to dawn curfew was imposed between 1982 and 1984. This resulted
in a total obliteration of the country's night life, and Nana just like many other prominent musicians including Pat Thomas and George Darko left Ghana for greener pastures, the most popular destinations being Nigeria and Germany. The Rheinklang Studio in Düsseldorf run by a young inimitable German sound engineer Bodo Staiger and another “exiled” Ghanaian musician Charles Amoah played a crucial role for those musicians who had chosen Germany. This studio became the focal point for Ghanaian musicians and the birthplace of a new sound, now known as 'Burger highlife' – traditional Ghanaian highlife infused with the more up to date electronic and disco sounds
of the West. It is arguable that Nana has played a crucial role in Burger highlife and developing the sound of traditional Ghanaian highlife more widely to what it is today, with his innovative use of
electronic accompaniment pushing its boundaries to its creative extremes.

It is Burger highlife's transcendence of traditional musical boundaries that helps make it so accessible to listeners, appealing not only to Ghanaians back home but now highly regarded and sought-after by those in the West interested in more occidental disco and electronic sounds. We hope that you enjoy the four songs offered here, each chosen to demonstrate Nana's singular influence on the development of Burger highlife.

Asamando

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Nana Tuffour - Asamando [Kalita Records]

Nana Tuffour - Sikyi Medley [Kalita Records]

Label: A & B Records 
Country: Ghana
Sortie: 1986

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This Is my 2nd set of my fav Highlife songs... some from Nkrumah times and most from the Burger-Highlife era....which was the time I was born and my parents where kinda hip and having alot of parties back when we were living in South East London. If you like what you hear or didn't hear something you thought you would leave a comment...cas most likely I got it or can get it within a couple of hours. check out my blog where from time to time I post tracks tracks from time to time....... citizins.tumblr.com

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