This is from an album called E.T. Mensah Day by Day, Classic Highlife Recordings of the 19502s and 19602s. When I was in Ghana, I loved watching couples dance to highlife music. In what was a ballroom dance, they had this wonderful rhythm. Highlife emerged in the 202s and is considered a major influence on all subsequent African Music. I can still remember sitting in a spot, an outside bar, listening and watching.
MP3: Abou Chihabi - Viva Komoro MP3: Kanda Bongo Man - Sai MP3: E.T. Mensah - Ghana Freedom MP3: Urbano De Castro - N'vula It's sometimes difficult to define something as "great" when it comes to music, because everyone has their own quirks. Too often though, we find ourselves being sold the next big hype, regardless of what subcultural group we [...]
Blind Blake Higgs - John B. Sail ( buy ) (1952) Blind Blake Higgs - JP Morgan ( buy ) (1951) E.T. Mensah - John B. Calypso ( buy ) (1958) One of the great discoveries I made while exploring the music of the fifties. Alphonso "Blind Blake" Higgs , not to be confused with the great Piedmont bluesman and guitar virtuoso, was a singer-guitarist from Nassau who was very popular there from the 1930s to the sixties. [...]
This is an extra song, a gift of sorts. Ghana is fifty two today. It became an independent nation on March 6, 1957. Happy Birthday! MP3 File youusendit
Afrobeat was born in the United States. The word was coined by Fela Kuti to describe the formula he had devised along with his drummer Tony Allen and their band of Nigerian jazz musicians. It was a powerful fusion, taking elements of African pop music, particularly Ghanaian high life of the type made funky by E.T. Mensah, jazz, funk, and politics. Few genres of music are so intricately tied to the life and family of one innovator, and few musicians have been as iconoclastic and influential as Fela Kuti. Listen to "Day by Day" by E.T. [...]
This is a lagniappe, a highlife song, the music I heard throughout Ghana. It was E.T. Mensah who pioneered the development of the swing-jazz influenced highlife dance-bands that were so popular throughout West Africa in the 1950's and 60's. MP3 File
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