Amakye Dede began his career when he joined the Kumapim
Royals as a composer and vocalist. He formed the Apollo Kings
around 1980. He moved to Nigeria and dominated the highlife
scene during 80’s and 90’s. With almost 20 albums to his credit
he now owns a bar in Accra where he helps celebrate live-band
music. Listen to this lp and agree, this ’88 highlife is hot..

tracks;

1   Dantuo mu awosee
2   Metee ye akye
3   Daben na odo beba
4   Magye me girl
5   Okyena sesee

Hello world, it is saturday morning this 9th of march,
spring is not there yet and that shows. Rain, rain and
more rain is pouring from the sky. Winter took far too
long to pass this year and we’re all glad temperatures
are rising slowly, we’re not there yet but it gets better.
The best we can do is take an advance on summer by
listening to some warm soukous for instance. Bopol
Mansiamina is the man I have in mind and he’s back
with this album on which we find some of the finest
artists. On guitars next to Bopol himself we’ve got
Lokassa ya M’bongo and Dally Kimoko. On bass
it’s Bopol once more and he’s also taking care of
vocals with Wuta May, Ballou and Jean Papy.
Denis Hekimian on drums, nothing can go
wrong here. In the mean time we’re
making good progress with the
new and improved GG..
Hang in there a
bit more..

tracks;

1 Ça c’est quoi ?
2 Mu karame
3 Makwandungu
4 Patience
5 Maizo

Ramdog’s Rough Site is catching lots of spam so I thought
since it doesn’t work properly anymore I might as well
remove the whole thing. A couple of posts I wanted to save
are now available here, get them if you please..

Next Ramdogs Rough Site re-post.

Another Ramdog’s Rough Site post was this one.
Get it if you didn’t and give it a spin..

tracks;

1   Tu le ton son ton
2   Hard to love someone
3   Who can your good man be
4   Zodico two step
5   Going la maison
6   I believe I’ll go back home
7   Release me
8   Big Mamou
9   Ton na na
10  I am coming home
11  Josephine par se ma femme
12  It’s Cristmas time

As some of you know I used to have a shadowblog called
Ramdog’s Rough Site. It is still there but ever since Mediafire
threw away all files it is waiting for renewal. At the moment it
just works as a spamcatcher so I thought I’d renew some of
it’s posts here at the Global Groove. This one is a compilation
of booze tracks I made quite some time ago, hope U like’m..

tracks;

1   Outkast – Drinking again ( interlude )
2   Eddie Harris – Drunk man
3   José Alfredo Jimenez – Llego borracho el borracho
4   Jim White – God was drunk when he made me
5   Louis Jordan – What’s the use of getting sober ?
6   Alfredo Gutierrez – La banda borracha
7   General Echo – Drunken master
8   Elizeth Cardoso – Eu bebo sim
9   Ace Cannon – Drunk
10  Davilita – El borracho
11  U Roy and Hopeton Lewis – Tom drunk
12  Jimmy Rogers – Sloppy drunk
13  Los Ahijados – El borracho
14  Coley Jones – Drunkard’s special
15  Cuarteto Flores – Borracho no vale
16  Calixto Ochoa – El muerto borracho
17  Jorginho do Império – Assim é demais
18  Grupo Fantasma – Borracho
19  Djalma Ferreira e os Milionarios do Ritmo – Drinkando
20  Lew Irwin & The Credibility Gap – Drunk voter

Good morning, on this fine saturday we’ve got you some
highlife from Ghana. The lp we have here ,’Stars of Ghana’,
was released in Nigeria on ‘Blackspot’, appearantly a division
of Decca West Africa. It contains several Ghanaian artists and
I think it’s a swell compilation. The lp is from 1980 and has some
minor noises, not too much. From the groups presented are some
we know from other projects in the past. Openings are taken
care of by the Royal Brothers Band, they kick off with some
of the finest highlifes. Get it, spread it and enjoy..

tracks;

1   Royal Brothers Band – Anamon nsia
2   Royal Brothers Band – Kayo mobo
3   Royal Brothers Band – Mafro odo mpa
4   Royal Brothers Band – Odo asem yi
5   Royal Brothers Band – Oyefo
6   Yamoah’s Band – Nkrabea
7   Yamoah’s Band – Otanhunu ye ya
8   Melody Aces – Paulina
9   Melody Aces – Suru lo dara
10  Akwaboa’s Band – Mera du
11  Ramblers Dance Band – Meni nda oba aranso
12  Ramblers Dance Band – Agyanka dabre

For today’s post we’ve got us an old Kenyan lp. It’s from
1972 and soundquality is not the best, the music however is.
Shirati Luo Voice Jazz was their name in those days and
their leader was none less than D.O. Misiani who we know
from his later work with “Shirati Jazz”. The cover you see I
found online, my copy came in a wrong cover unfortunately.
Nevertheless, even with cracks, pops and hiss,
I guess it’s worth a couple of spins..
Get it and spread it..

tracks;

1   J.o. ramebeya
2   Polina no.2
3   Hezron macoto
4   Margret odero olumbe
5   Okwiri janyakach
6   Jobwa no.2
7   Margret wambwa
8   Walton bunde
9   D. kathorin ager
10  Shirati dhinyime
11  P.n. mcotieno
12  Sipi akeyo

..and now for something completely different..
If I say; “throat-singing from Tuva”, does that ring any bell to you ?
If it doesn’t, it is time to get aquainted. When I saw “Gengis Blues”
again, it hit me like it did the first time and I decided to give it a go.
I could be mistaking but if I’m correct, this cd by the wonderful Shu-De
is already out of print. Don’t get confused now, Gengis Blues is a film
about the blind American bluessinger Paul Pena who’s one of the first
western artists to practise this type of singing. The movie follows him to
Tuva and gives us a marvelous inside look in it’s quite unknown culture.
The cd ‘Shu-De – Voices from the distant steppe’ on Peter Gabriels ‘Real
World’ label is from 1994 and combines wonderful with Paul Pena’s story.
To spoil you a bit more I added some funvideo’s
on the same topic, look & listen..

tracks;

01   Sygyt, khoomei, kargyraa
02   Aian dudal
03   Beezhinden
04   Buura
05   Durgen chugaa
06   Throat-singing and igil
07   Yraazhy kys
08   Shyngyr-shyngyr
09   Baian-dudai
10   Khomus solo
11   Meen khemchim
12   Opei yry
13   Tyva-uriankhai
14   Chaspy-khem
15   Kadarchynyng yry
16   Kham