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: Album.......: Highlife Time Vol 2 Nigerian & Ghanaian Classics :
: Label.......: Vampi Soul .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Ethnic :
Catnr.......: VAMPI CD 129 .
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; Rip.date....: 2021-03-06
Str.date....: 2011-06-07
Quality.....: 267kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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Disc 1 / 2
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1. ET Mensah & The Tempos - Yei Ngebewoh 2:18
2. Bobby Benson & His Combo - Taxi Driver 3:22
3. Dr Victor Olaiya - Ilu Le O 5:21
4. The Ramblers Dance Band - Akwanoma Hiahii 2:41
5. International Charles Iwegbue & His Hino Sound - 4:25
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6. Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz - Sweet Mother 9:54
7. The Ramblers International - Muntie (Highlife 5:19
Charanga)
8. Bunzu Soundz - Yaa Nansa 4:58
9. George Williams Aingo - Suantsi 3:03
Disc 2 / 2
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1. Professional Uhuru Band - Eyaa Duom 4:33
2. Guy Warren Of Ghana - Ours, This Is Our Land 2:28
(Yenara Asase Shena)
3. Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Titibitis Of Africa - 5:41
Ogiobo
4. Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National - 6:15
Okwukwe Na Nichekwub
5. Dr Sir Warrior & The Oriental Brothers 4:13
International - Ilhe Chinyenre
6. Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe - Osondi Owendi 11:08
7. Smart Nkansah & His Sweet Talks - Folk Spiritual 7:08
Medley
8. Cardinal Rex Lawson & His Mayor's Band Of 2:58
Nigeria - Osuala Oru Enene
9. The Band Of The Nigeria Police - Calabar 4:14
10. George Williams Aingo - Koko Ahataw Kur 3:00
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,: This is the second volume in Vampisoul's Highlife Time series, :,
: chronicling Nigerian and Ghanaian highlife heroes both renowned :
:' and sorely under-represented. Professor John Collins (musician, ':
,: composer, prolific writer about African music and eminent :,
: musicologist at the University of Ghana) has traced the roots of :
:' highlife music back to the 1880s on the Gold Coast, now known ':
,: as Ghana. He sees it as a fusion of rhythms from the West :,
: African coast, from Europe, from the Caribbean and from :
:' African-Americans in both South and North America. During the ':
,: Second World War, swing was introduced by British and American :,
: servicemen based in Ghana. As a result, the large dance :
:' orchestras gave way to the smaller highlife dance bands. The ':
,: most famous was the groundbreaking Tempos band, led by trumpeter :,
: ET Mensah, which incorporated Afro-Cuban percussion, played by :
:' the band's finest drummer, the pioneering Kofi Ghanaba (aka Guy ':
,: Warren of Ghana). It was their brilliant fusion style that made :,
: such an impact on Nigeria in the 1950s. Nigerian journalist :
:' Benson Idonije, however, is by no means alone in believing that ':
,: while Mensah must be saluted for the cultural legacy he left :,
: behind, he was not responsible for introducing highlife to :
:' Nigeria: "Highlife has always been with us (Nigerians), at ':
,: least since the guitar or mandolin banjo was introduced to our :,
: folk and indigenous music to bring about its very first contact :
:' with Western instrumentation and music. That type of music just ':
,: did not attract the kind of mass appeal that Mensah's Tempos :,
: band generated." When Mensah's highlife first blew into Nigeria, :
:' Bobby Benson's Jam Session Band were playing mostly swing and ':
,: ballroom tunes along with the other leading Nigerian dance :,
: bands. Bobby had the foresight to realize which way the musical :
:' wind was blowing and highlife then began to dominate his ':
,: repertoire. Over time, his 11-piece band featured the future :,
: stars of Nigerian highlife: Sir Victor Uwaifo, Bayo Martins and :
:' trumpet players like Zeal Onyia, Roy Chicago, Chief Bill Friday ':
,: and, of course, an ambitious young player called Victor Olaiya. :,
: By 1952, Olaiya had become the leader of Benson's second band, :
:' Alfa's Carnival Group, but then he felt his moment had arrived ':
,: and he launched his own highlife band, the Cool Cats, at the :,
: West End CafΘ in Lagos. The many influential Nigerian musicians :
:' his bands spawned and nurtured over the next two decades ':
,: included Sir Victor Uwaifo, John Akintola (aka Roy Chicago), :,
: Peter King, Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Eddie Okonta, Agun Norris :
:' (of Empire Orchestra), Celestine Ukwu (of Anambra), Bala ':
,: Miller, AC Arinze, Osita Osadebe and, most famous of all, Sunny :,
: Ade, Tony Allen and Fela Kuti. Highlife became the fashionable :
:' soundtrack to independence in both countries (Ghana 1957, ':
,: Nigeria 1960) and an essential foundation to the new musical :,
: styles that were to develop -- but as the '60s rolled on, the :
:' music evolved differently in each country, diverging as ':
,: different forces came into play. However, in both countries :,
: economics meant that big highlife bands were difficult to :
:' maintain, and the ever-growing popularity of the electric ':
,: guitar, aided and abetted by the sounds of the successive waves :,
: of the beat, blues and rock booms from the USA and the UK, meant :
:' that guitar highlife became a very cool direction to take. Rex ':
,: Lawson and Sir Victor Uwaifo led the development of the :,
: guitar-oriented variant of highlife, but the terrible crisis of :
:' the 1967-1970 Nigerian (or Biafran) Civil War brought its own ':
,: set of musical changes. In 1971, the Soul To Soul music festival :,
: was held in Accra. Several legendary American musicians played, :
:' including Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner and Carlos Santana, ':
,: and in the subsequent Ghanaian roots revival new guitar bands :,
: and stars arose in Ghana. :
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