Originally released in 1969 as Voices of Africa: High-Life and Other Popular Music (H-72026)In order to provide a historical context for this recording, the liner notes that accompanied its original release have been reprinted in full below. The text has not been edited to reflect changes in general cultural perceptions or specific factual information that may have occurred since then. —Ed.In this album, Saka Acquaye and his African Ensemble present a small sampling of the fascinating music of modern Africa.
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This is not an “ethnic” recording – rather, a unique opportunity to hear the popular, dance hall, and concert music of Africa today. Imagine yourself in one of the many nightclubs or dance halls of Accra, capital of Ghana. The orchestra is a highly spirited combo of eleven young musicians utilizing both native African instruments and the jazz instruments of America and Western Europe: drums and gourds share the stage with saxophones, vibes, and a bass fiddle. You hear African “calypsos” and “blues,” intermixed with urban arrangements of traditional African work songs and secular music. Some time during the evening, the orchestra settles itself down for an extended musical composition that would be classified by us as “modern serious music” – perhaps a tone poem or suite for African instruments. A young and vital nation is experimenting with new ideas and forms. This record captures the sound of a music in the making.The new African nations have taken their place among self-governing peoples; that great cultural changes are occurring in these new nations is not surprising.
In the “new” music coming out of Africa, the rich spontaneity and color of African life are magnified a hundred times. Americans have a vested interest in this movement, for their own musics – jazz, popular, dance, and religious – have drawn heavily upon African sources. Actually, the new African music is based solidly on traditional African musical expression, adapting elements from the music of the colonial powers that have governed these peoples.
In different parts of Africa, as one would expect, these musical forms have taken diverse roads of development. For example, where drums and crossed rhythms have dominated, the newer musical forms are structured upon traditional drumming. In other districts, European stringed instruments have been adopted by native instrumentalists.In a government-issued guide book to Ghana, one finds the remark that “enjoyment of life” and “love of laughter” characterize the people of this African republic. Nowhere is this more evident than in their music.
Even their term for good-time music – “high life” – is indicative of this ability to laugh after a hard day’s labor. Their songs are full of their philosophy about life and a way of living. Proverbs and witty sayings, passed down traditionally for hundreds of years, are part of the everyday speech of Ghana and a mainspring for many of its cleverest songs. No shallow gutter-humor here – instead, time-tested truths, folk gems of one kind or another, are scattered generously throughout these songs.Saka Acquaye and his African Ensemble furnish a striking example of present-day interaction between cultures.
American jazz and popular music have now returned to Africa and are influencing the music that gave birth to them.- KENNETH S. GOLDSTEIN with SAKA ACQUAYE. Originally released in 1969 as Voices of Africa: High-Life and Other Popular Music (H-72026)In order to provide a historical context for this recording, the liner notes that accompanied its original release have been reprinted in full below. The text has not been edited to reflect changes in general cultural perceptions or specific factual information that may have occurred since then. —Ed.In this album, Saka Acquaye and his African Ensemble present a small sampling of the fascinating music of modern Africa.
This is not an “ethnic” recording – rather, a unique opportunity to hear the popular, dance hall, and concert music of Africa today. Imagine yourself in one of the many nightclubs or dance halls of Accra, capital of Ghana. The orchestra is a highly spirited combo of eleven young musicians utilizing both native African instruments and the jazz instruments of America and Western Europe: drums and gourds share the stage with saxophones, vibes, and a bass fiddle. You hear African “calypsos” and “blues,” intermixed with urban arrangements of traditional African work songs and secular music. Some time during the evening, the orchestra settles itself down for an extended musical composition that would be classified by us as “modern serious music” – perhaps a tone poem or suite for African instruments.
A young and vital nation is experimenting with new ideas and forms. This record captures the sound of a music in the making.The new African nations have taken their place among self-governing peoples; that great cultural changes are occurring in these new nations is not surprising.
In the “new” music coming out of Africa, the rich spontaneity and color of African life are magnified a hundred times. Americans have a vested interest in this movement, for their own musics – jazz, popular, dance, and religious – have drawn heavily upon African sources. Actually, the new African music is based solidly on traditional African musical expression, adapting elements from the music of the colonial powers that have governed these peoples.
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In different parts of Africa, as one would expect, these musical forms have taken diverse roads of development. For example, where drums and crossed rhythms have dominated, the newer musical forms are structured upon traditional drumming. In other districts, European stringed instruments have been adopted by native instrumentalists.In a government-issued guide book to Ghana, one finds the remark that “enjoyment of life” and “love of laughter” characterize the people of this African republic. Nowhere is this more evident than in their music.
Even their term for good-time music – “high life” – is indicative of this ability to laugh after a hard day’s labor. Their songs are full of their philosophy about life and a way of living. Proverbs and witty sayings, passed down traditionally for hundreds of years, are part of the everyday speech of Ghana and a mainspring for many of its cleverest songs. No shallow gutter-humor here – instead, time-tested truths, folk gems of one kind or another, are scattered generously throughout these songs.Saka Acquaye and his African Ensemble furnish a striking example of present-day interaction between cultures. American jazz and popular music have now returned to Africa and are influencing the music that gave birth to them.- KENNETH S.
GOLDSTEIN with SAKA ACQUAYE.
How to download songsGhanamotion is a blog with latest music in Ghana. Click and start downloading all your latest songs in Ghana. We bring you new songs from Ghana, Nigeria, and other parts of the world. And most of the song consist of hiplife, GH rap, Afrobeats, Highlife, and many more. Hip Hop in Ghana GhanamotionGhanaians call Ghana rap as Gh hiphop. This term GH Rap is for Jayso and Ball J when they came out with their first “Skillions mixtape”.
According to these two rappers, GH Rap means Hiphop made in Ghana. One can say a Ghanaian genre similar to hip hop music is Hiplife; And this is a combination of hip hop and highlife.Also, Hiplife which we know to be from the late 1980s and early 90s with artistes such as Reggie Rockstone (also known as the father of Hiplife), VIP, Talking Drums, Nananom and many more.
But today, others artistes are here with another style which is a mixture of English with Twi or Ga like “Heaven n’ Hell”. You will see Some secondary schools and small area rap groups who will rap in pidgin English (a mix of English and other dialects). This is because hiplife music is now popular and you can find most of these songs on Ghanamotion. Ghanamotion – Some Ghanaian ArtistesGhanamotionGhanaian music has also produce a number of rappers and DJs who are both locally and internationally known. Ghanaian rapping is commonly in the English language, but currently it is mostly in, Ewe, or Hausa.Artistes like, D-Black, Okyeame Kwame, Obrafour, Stonebwoy, Samini, Opanka, Lazzybwoy, Shatta Wale, Sway DeSafo, Bradez, Yaa Pono, Buk Bak, Tic Tac, 4×4, Kwaw Kese, VIP, Ayigbe Edem, Tinny, Castro Destroyer, Mzbel, Lil Shaker and upcoming artists including AmuGa Temper, King Kpasi and many others are among the artistes who rap and sing in Twi and English.Ghanamotion is here with a lot of talents in Ghana with different music style and genre.
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