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Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/nananomasona ERIC AGYEMANG AND HIS KOKROKO BAND - NANANOM A living history of modern Ghana music, Eric Agyemang started his musical career in 1963 with pop outfit The Midnight Movers, in 1972 moving on to Doctor K Gyasi’s Noble Kings and in 1973 to the legendary Sweet Talks. A gifted arranger, Agyemang would transform the sound of Ghana’s most celebrate...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/ndeyenda A.K. YEBOAH - NDE YEN DA AK Yeboah- Antony ‘King’ Yeboah- began his career playing ‘classic’ highlife in the 1950s. Thirty years later, he hit upon the brilliant idea of writing songs in Pidgin, to attract a much wider listenership- especially among neighbouring Nigerians. Yeboah’s pan-African electric guitar style was a shoo-in for the 80s ‘bu...

A.K. YEBOAH - NDE YEN DA AK Yeboah- Antony ‘King’ Yeboah- began his career playing ‘classic’ highlife in the 1950s. Thirty years later, he hit upon the brilliant idea of writing songs in Pidgin, to attract a much wider listenership- especially among neighbouring Nigerians. Yeboah’s pan-African electric guitar style was a shoo-in for the 80s ‘burger’ highlife style, and equally popular with Colombi...

A.K. YEBOAH - NDE YEN DA AK Yeboah- Antony ‘King’ Yeboah- began his career playing ‘classic’ highlife in the 1950s. Thirty years later, he hit upon the brilliant idea of writing songs in Pidgin, to attract a much wider listenership- especially among neighbouring Nigerians. Yeboah’s pan-African electric guitar style was a shoo-in for the 80s ‘burger’ highlife style, and equally popular with Colombi...

A.K. YEBOAH - NDE YEN DA AK Yeboah- Antony ‘King’ Yeboah- began his career playing ‘classic’ highlife in the 1950s. Thirty years later, he hit upon the brilliant idea of writing songs in Pidgin, to attract a much wider listenership- especially among neighbouring Nigerians. Yeboah’s pan-African electric guitar style was a shoo-in for the 80s ‘burger’ highlife style, and equally popular with Colombi...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Save the album here: https://orcd.co/mrcee MR CEE - NYE WONKO In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charle...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/ayeyi THOMAS FREMPONG - AYE YI THOMAS FREMPONG has been an integral part of the Ghana music scene for almost half a century. He’s played with countless line-ups, perhaps the most famous being The Noble Kings, who in the 60s introduced the sikyi highlife genre, which would define the ‘classic’ brass/woodwind/guitar highlife sound for decades to come. Fre...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/ayeyi THOMAS FREMPONG - AYE YI THOMAS FREMPONG has been an integral part of the Ghana music scene for almost half a century. He’s played with countless line-ups, perhaps the most famous being The Noble Kings, who in the 60s introduced the sikyi highlife genre, which would define the ‘classic’ brass/woodwind/guitar highlife sound for decades to come. Fre...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/ayeyi THOMAS FREMPONG - AYE YI THOMAS FREMPONG has been an integral part of the Ghana music scene for almost half a century. He’s played with countless line-ups, perhaps the most famous being The Noble Kings, who in the 60s introduced the sikyi highlife genre, which would define the ‘classic’ brass/woodwind/guitar highlife sound for decades to come. Fre...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/ayeyi THOMAS FREMPONG - AYE YI THOMAS FREMPONG has been an integral part of the Ghana music scene for almost half a century. He’s played with countless line-ups, perhaps the most famous being The Noble Kings, who in the 60s introduced the sikyi highlife genre, which would define the ‘classic’ brass/woodwind/guitar highlife sound for decades to come. Fre...

Buy / Stream it the album: https://orcd.co/afrikaman NANA BUDJEI - AFRIKAMAN A true ‘Afro London’ session from the mid-80s: Ghanaian Jon K, himself a major force in modern African dance music generally with several solo albums of his own; gifted producer, Kenyan Dave Ravel (aka Yowell); and Sierre Leone’s finest guitarist Abdul Tee`Jay, with several solo albums to his credit also. The horn section...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/mebafie SAM YEBOAH - MEBA FIE - I'LL BE BACK HOME Not to be confused with professional footballer and top Ghana Premier League and Israeli Premier League goal-scorer of the same name, there is intriguingly little information available for the singer/songwriter/musician Sam Yeboah’s (almost) one-man-band burger highlife session, although the pedigree is...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/electrichilife JEWEL ACKAH - ELECTRIC HI-LIFE To many Ghanaians, Jewel Ackah’s name IS synonymous with feelgood, old-school highlife dance music, not least the anthem of Ghana’s National Democratic Congress, composed and performed by Jewel at the behest of the government, to much acclaim. This superb Asona disc, though, is carefully titled: because alth...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/mebafie SAM YEBOAH - MEBA FIE - I'LL BE BACK HOME Not to be confused with professional footballer and top Ghana Premier League and Israeli Premier League goal-scorer of the same name, there is intriguingly little information available for the singer/songwriter/musician Sam Yeboah’s (almost) one-man-band burger highlife session, although the pedigree is...

Buy / Stream it the album: https://orcd.co/afrikaman NANA BUDJEI - AFRIKAMAN A true ‘Afro London’ session from the mid-80s: Ghanaian Jon K, himself a major force in modern African dance music generally with several solo albums of his own; gifted producer, Kenyan Dave Ravel (aka Yowell); and Sierre Leone’s finest guitarist Abdul Tee`Jay, with several solo albums to his credit also. The horn section...

Rich Medina in Session At The BBE Store , London - September 7th 2023 DJ's in session every weekend at The BBE Store. Head to the_bbe_store on Instagram to keep up to date with whats going down

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/nakamuralocus Japan has produced some exceptionally talented jazz drummers and among them is Tatsuya Nakamura, who joins the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series with his album ‘Locus’ from 1984, a session covering several bases, from heavy percussive samba to meditative avant-ambient. This is the album’s first ever reissue, although a track from ‘Locus’...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/nakamuralocus Japan has produced some exceptionally talented jazz drummers and among them is Tatsuya Nakamura, who joins the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series with his album ‘Locus’ from 1984, a session covering several bases, from heavy percussive samba to meditative avant-ambient. This is the album’s first ever reissue, although a track from ‘Locus’...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/nakamuralocus Japan has produced some exceptionally talented jazz drummers and among them is Tatsuya Nakamura, who joins the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series with his album ‘Locus’ from 1984, a session covering several bases, from heavy percussive samba to meditative avant-ambient. This is the album’s first ever reissue, although a track from ‘Locus’...

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/nakamuralocus Japan has produced some exceptionally talented jazz drummers and among them is Tatsuya Nakamura, who joins the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series with his album ‘Locus’ from 1984, a session covering several bases, from heavy percussive samba to meditative avant-ambient. This is the album’s first ever reissue, although a track from ‘Locus’...