Saturday, November 19, 2011

Ghana: Ebo Taylor at the AfrikaFestival Hertme



Ebo Taylor is one of the great elder statesmen of Ghanaian music, a highlife guitarist who cut his teeth playing and composing for Broadway Dance Band and Stargazers during the 1950′s. His solo work during the ’70s and ’80s has been compiled on albums on Soundway and Analog Africa and he has just released his first studio album outside of Africa on Strut with the Berlin-based band Afrobeat Academy. Strut’s Quinton Scott asks him about Usher samples, highlife music, nursery rhymes, his new album and ... ( more ).

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

MULATU ASTATKE & The Heliocentrics | Munaye



MULATU ASTATKE & The Heliocentrics, Live from Cargo, London
17th April 2008