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Release Date: 16-08-2006
Label: Rough Guides
Catalog Number: RG1173-2
Barcode: 605633117325
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghana-Guinee-Mali (Ghana); E.T. Mensah [02:43] | 8 | Were Were (Guinea); Horoya Band [05:07] |
| 2 | Let Them Talk (Sierra Leone); Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats [05:12] | 9 | The Lord’s Prayer (Ghana); Super Sweet Talks [05:45] |
| 3 | Whiskey Soda (Guinea); Bembeya Jazz [05:31] | 10 | Ekassa No. 34/Igiodo-Giodo (Nigeria); Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes [06:40] |
| 4 | Manicero (Senegal); Dexter Johnson, The International Band & Laba Sosseh [04:07] | 11 | Abenaa Na Aden? (Ghana); Eric Agyeman [07:20] |
| 5 | Ife Si Na Chi (Nigeria); Celestine Ukwu [05:04] | 12 | Mali Cèbalenw (Mali); Orchestre Rail Band De Bamako & Salif Keita [06:33] |
| 6 | Moi Je Suis Décourage (Guinea); Balla [05:38] | 13 | Boulmamine (Senegal); Orchestre Baobab [05:53] |
| 7 | Geej (Senegal); No. 1 De Dakar & Doudou Sow [06:04] | ||
Description:
This album features music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s up to the early 1980s - a golden era in African music. With highlife guitars and horns, Guinean big-band music, early Senegalese mbalax with its tasty Latin influences and the funky Afro-beat sound that shakes the hippest dancefloors across the globe, this is the big beat of West Africa!
