Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats This delightful music is recommended

This delightful music is recommended in one form or another

Make no mistake

who leads KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE and KYOTO JAZZ SEXTET

a Japanese city pop cover project by Blu-Swing vocalist Yuri Tanaka

Includes download card and new insert with liner notes by Will Carruthers

Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats This delightful music is recommendedIn the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music. This style soundtracked the birth