Explorer: Ghana - High-Life & Other Music [Original recording reissued]

Saka Acquaye | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 27, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B00006C75X
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,401 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #26 in Music > World Music > Africa > Ghana

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5.0 out of 5 stars An unusual and alluring African album, November 25, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Explorer: Ghana - High-Life & Other Music (Audio CD)

One of the most fascinating and unique sounding of the recently-rereleased early Nonesuch Explorer albums. Ghanian highlife pioneer Saka Acquaye hosted this loose-edged, jazz-tinged jam session, which blends standard old-school highlife music (and its calypsonian roots) with playful, exploratory free jazz. American saxophonist Charles Earland is a key participant in these freewheeling. improvisational sessions, adding an authoritative jazz feel to the delicate clamour of a keening vocal chorus and erratic, seemingly chaotic percussive patterns. This is a very different sound for this musical style, although one suspects it's also truer to highlife's early, informal roots. Similar at times to Alice Coltrane's early '70s afrocentric jazz ramblings, but more focused and more fun. A cool record... definitely worth checking out!

5.0 out of 5 stars A fond rememberance, January 8, 2012

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Robert J. Fries "Tubacarla" (Philadelphia Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghana High-Life And Other Popular Music (MP3 Download)

I purchased this exact playlist identically recorded in 1962 on a reel to reel tape. It was then called "Gold Coast Saturday night". I don't know what happened to it and have been looking for it ever since. Was I delighted to find it in his format. A grand mix of Bush, Jazz and third world party.