Good morning groovers, today we have another lp by the great
Bob Akwaboah. Wonderful Ghanaian highlife you don’t want to miss.
Please take the music and spread it, the more people listening
to it, the better. Give copies to your neighbours,
your friends, your parents and collegues.

tracks;

1 Odasani tani wo a, na otan wo ayen mmoa
2 Yoyeo ala sariki ( song in hausa )
3 Eye ahomete wuo
4 Meko, meko yenko no kwa

For this fine saturday I’ve got something a whole bunch of
you go crazy about. It is another lp by one of those Ghanaian
groups who recorded in Nigeria. Opambuo International Band
of Ghana brings us this typical sound. Ghanaian highlife with
a Nigerian sauce over it. Being a heretic I regret one title but I
just love the sound of it so it got through anyway. The album
is on Rogers All Stars and from 1982, guaranteed topnotch
production, it’s rare, it sounds beautiful, better take it quick.

I am sorry I didn’t re-up anything during the past few days,
just too damned busy to find the time, today I
did some 20 highlife albums though,
stay tuned and hang on…

tracks;

1 Kiss me and smile
2 Me kuta me korah
3 I pray to god
4 Maye maye anye yie
5 Mo mfa nye me

I am quite sure that when some recordcompany,
big or small, would think of releasing a track from this original,
it is very likely they would cut off the biggest part of the song.
These tracks span a whole lp-side, 16 minutes like on this a-side
is short, often the tracks take 20 to 30 minutes. The chance this
music will reach you through ‘legitimate’ channels is very small.
This hard to find music is now meant to survive
the ages coming because it is spread in it’s original form.
To recordcompany’s I’d like to say, please release this wonderful
music through an official cd, I challenge you.

tracks;

1 Egwundioma
2 Eje-anabu-isi

Good morning, after all that hustle about streaming or not
streaming, let me tell you this. I asked Mr.Scott politely to
give an honest answer to my question. I asked him; tell me
which of the lp’s posted here are in some way or another
causing a conflict with copyrights ? I want to cooperate
and remove every single lp that does. .First he refused to
answer me but kept sending comments to the GG. I told
him; “answer me or your comments will be blocked from
here. Again our nice Mr. Scott kept nagging about how
bad I am, sharing my old lp’s with you, my dear fiends.
He is no longer getting through here, end of story !

Shame that Stern’s label, which I always promoted for
their fantastic work is now contaminated with
Iain Scott’s nasty virus and
awful smell of money.
Shame..

tracks;

1 Elege
2 Ejina uwa nya isi
3 Obialu be onye abiagbunia
4 Okwukwe na nchekwube
5 Mma anyi egbuna anyi
6 Mmefie adiro mgbayalu ama di
7 Uwem ereri mbot emi
8 Ilo abu chi

Good evening,
Someone asked for that Nico Mbarga lp which shows in
my sleeve-face pic. It is a ‘best of’ with very familiar tracks
so I thought this one would be a better plan. This is Prince
Nico Mbarga with his New Rocafil Jazz, I do not know from
what year it comes. Anyhow, it was quite some time ago, we
had us an lp by the man so good idea to get him out here again.

This morning I started re-uploading the GG from the very beginning.
I now use another account, I change the name of the folder and use
password protection. To unpack, simply fill in ‘globalgroove’, and it goes.
Damn, I now realize how primitive I made the first posts. My sleeve-pics
are vague, no html yet, it really was necessary to upgrade some of the
older ones but it takes loads of time. I guess I spent about three hours
to re-up and reorganize some 13 lp’s. It’s better not to calculate how
long it will take to restore the whole damn thing. In the near future I
guess I’d better ask a couple of friends to help me. We’ll work
something out. At least I made a beginning and that means
we’re up and running again. I prefer to do it in chronological
order but can make an occasional exception of course.
Well, one way or another, let’s just hope they won’t
kick my files out ever again and
we’ll get there eventually.

tracks;

1   Tribalism
2   Ocheme emia
3   Music message
4   Man pass man

Back in the days E.T. Mensah was the first Ghanaian
highlife artist I heard. From the first notes I was convinced,
this is wonderful music. Eversince I keep searching for his
work and shortly got lucky. Check this 10″ on Decca West
Africa, a great find I wanna share with you today. Listen.

tracks;

1 Donkey calypso
2 Tea samba
3 Shemi ni oya
4 Laura
5 Munsuro
6 Sunday mirror
7 St. Peter’s calypso
8 Obaayi fi kumasi
9 Nkebo baaya
10 Stormy ass

..and that’s three. With the first album of Master Bob
Akwaboah, I told you I didn’t hear of him before. Meanwhile
this is the third one we have and we are slowly getting
familiar with his sound. I think I’m becoming a fan..

tracks;

1 Yede owuo ka
2 Apetebie gyae nkonten bo

It was my first experience with brass highlife.
Mostly instrumental but somehow infectious,
kind of carnavalesque, parade style
highlife from Ghana, check..

tracks;

1 Wo tese mawu a didi
2 Madamfo pa
3 Maniso kyin me
4 Oda ne baa i
5 Me maame awo me
6 Suro wo dofo
7 Medley

Victor Uwaifo’s albums are not widely available as you
might know, therefore I was extra happily surprised to
find this rare 10″ at the last fair. after some whealin’ and
dealin’ it became part of my, and now your, collection.
It seems Sir Victor was crazy about his song ‘joromi’,
it keeps showing up. As for the other nine songs, we
did not have them before. Take’m they’re yours.
Oh..eh, it has a couple tics and tacs
and a minor jump, sorry for that…

tracks;

1 Akwete
2 Oliha
3 Siwo siwo
4 Sesese
5 Do amen do
6 Joromi
7 Tisha
8 Eraldo gbengigialo
9 Agege ogiobo
10 Iriorere

After bringing several Ghanaian groups who operated from
Nigeria, today a band who stayed at home. This 1981 album
by Atakora Manu must have been recorded in at least two
sessions. We hear 6 instruments and only have three
musicians. Atakora Manu, Maringe and Moses
Akwaboa did a good job, I would not have
noticed without reading the backsleeve.
Only 25 minutes but you don’t
wanna miss dem…

tracks;

1 Sunkwa
– Owuo nye
2 Pim no bi