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Here's a short playlist (for me) of great music from Ghana from back in the day, and some selections by contemporary artists from there as well. Ebo Taylor just passed last month… He revolutionized Ghanaian music, adding local grooves to the afro cuban ones that were popular at the time as well as adding jazz chords to popular songs. There's a good obituary in the NY Times and in The Guardian- I had no idea that he and Fela were pals in London, devouring Miles and Coltrane and planning how to create a new kind of African music.
My favorite new Ghanaian artist is Florence Adooni... The range and innovation on her new album is wonderful. (Had to include a cover of Crosseyed and Painless that she did for the recent Naive Melodies project).
-David Byrne
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