Various Artists - Highlife Time [CD]
Highlife Time
Various Artists
CD
2008 two CD release. Highlife, dance music played mostly in Ghana and Nigeria, represents one of the century's first fusions of African roots and western music, and before 1970 it ruled dancefloors across much of West Africa. The story of West African big-band Highlife is the story of West African independence itself. From it's early roots in church music, old African song forms, sea shanties and military brass bands to the orchestra podiums of the slickest nightclubs and concert halls of Lagos and Accra, Highlife has charted the growing confidence of a proud and gifted people casting off the shackles of empire: A people ready to live the High Life.
Tracklist:
- Trumpet Highlife - E.T. Mensah/Dr Victor Olaiya
- Belama - Opotopo
- Numfinye (Nome Alobo) - Rex Lawson & His Rivers Men
- Grazing in the Grass - Uhuru Dance Band/Stan Plange
- Jolosho - St. Augustine
- Yellow Sisi - Rex Lawson & His Rivers Men
- Dabra Ba - Uhuru Dance Band/Stan Plange
- Won Bum - Opotopo (Easy Kabaka Brown)/Fatai Rolling Dollar
- Makojo - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
- Joromi - Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestros
- Mofe Muyan - Dr Victor Olaiya
- Oko - Rex Lawson & His Rivers Men
- Aasem - Uhuru Dance Band/Stan Plange
- Peri Special Mbanga - Rex Lawson & His Rivers Men
- Ikoro Special - Dan Satch & His Atomic 8 Dance Band Of Aba
- Esonta - Chief Inyang Nta Henshaw
- Afro Baby - Professional Seagulls
- Pay Me My Money Now - Rex Lawson & His Rivers Men
- Etuk Owo - Opotopo
- Okina - Akana Man