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So I'm on my hols in Ghana, staying with some friends in Kumasi, the second city- and my buddy here has located a shop with a couple of thousand highlife vinyl 'upstairs out the back'. We're going to check it out tomorrow. From what he's already bought there, it appears 60s & 70s highlife is the order of the day, mostly Ghanaian but with a fair smattering from other west African states.
Trouble is, while I'm listening to and enjoying highlife a lot at the moment (not just cos I'm here, though it certainly helps), my knowledge is still firmly at the 'I know what I like when I hear it' stage. It would really help me if some of the more knowledgable members on the board could sketch out a brief geneology, with major movements, scenes and key artists, plus maybe a few personal recommendations to help me out tomorrow, as we won't be able to audition the records (vinyl being an antique technology in Ghana, no one has record players any more - no doubt they'll be filing our interest in the black stuff under a long list of western eccentricities... these romans are crazy ectetc!).
And it would seem that this shop really does have a lot of highlife vinyl, so if anyone is looking for anything specific for thier own collections, let me know and I'll go on the hunt.
I'll check back on the thread tomorrow am when I get back to the cafe.
Thanks in advance highlife massive.
Trouble is, while I'm listening to and enjoying highlife a lot at the moment (not just cos I'm here, though it certainly helps), my knowledge is still firmly at the 'I know what I like when I hear it' stage. It would really help me if some of the more knowledgable members on the board could sketch out a brief geneology, with major movements, scenes and key artists, plus maybe a few personal recommendations to help me out tomorrow, as we won't be able to audition the records (vinyl being an antique technology in Ghana, no one has record players any more - no doubt they'll be filing our interest in the black stuff under a long list of western eccentricities... these romans are crazy ectetc!).
And it would seem that this shop really does have a lot of highlife vinyl, so if anyone is looking for anything specific for thier own collections, let me know and I'll go on the hunt.
I'll check back on the thread tomorrow am when I get back to the cafe.
Thanks in advance highlife massive.