New Akwaaba Single/Remix project. My version of Aunty Adoley, which appeared on a previous Akwaaba compilation, is on it. Check it all out below:
Akwaaba’s Aunty Adoley
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Tags: akwaaba, Chief Boima, DJ Sabo, Douster, Ghana, hiplife, maga bo, Remix, X-Pensive Nframa
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Lone Stars Vol. 1 Compilation
20 10 2011
The compilation of Liberian music I helped put together with Akwaaba Music is out. Buy it at Bandcamp, iTunes, or Amazon. I wanna here Damyarea bumpin’ out of car stereos in NY!
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Tags: akwaaba, Gbema, Hipco, Liberia, Lone Stars Vol. 1
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Super Akwaaba Disco Caravan
20 11 2008
I done a mix for Akwaaba music’s podcast. It is their first episode, so it’s an honor to have Benjamin reach out to me for that. He asked me to do a mix incorporating songs from his next release, Chaleh Move It!, which is packed with dancefloor sounds from Ghana and Ivory Coast.
He told me I could mix in anything else I want, so I did. Lately I’ve been hearing songs of all different genres in all parts of the world taking influence of contemporary African dance musics. By taking influences from other parts of the world, African artists have started a direct two way conversation between themselves and places like the U.K., Germany, Colombia, and the U.S. For me, the Afro-pop I grew up on need no longer to be confined to Africa, or house parties, or family reunions in the diaspora. We gonna take everyone’s clubs by storm!
Oh, and buy their first release, Akwaaba Wo Africa, on their site or on itunes!
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Categories : Music, Tha Homies
Akwaaba Music Launch Party
6 11 2008
Akwaaba Music first album launch party this Friday night in Los Angeles! DJ’s Tom Schnabel, Jeremy Sole, Chief Boima and Benjamin Lebrave, at a place called Salt. Africa is here!
Get the album on itunes or at Akwaabamusic.com
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Categories : Gigs
The Highlife: Saturday October 18th
10 10 2008
Highlife Music was one of the first African musics to take influences from American Sounds. In the 1920′s as urban areas in West Africa grew, Jazz, and Big Band arrangements fused with local Palm Wine and acoustic musics, and also mixed with Calypso, Cuban Son, and other musics from overseas. It was fun, uplifting music in the spirit of good times.
These such fusions continue on through to today, and it is in that spirit of mixing and good times, a group of folks have come together to bring you The Highlife, a new monthly party.
This is a project in collaboration with the African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center, Thirdspace Productions, Akwaaba Music Label. I’m excited to launch my own monthly event that could go off into bigger territory. Guest DJs include Benjamin from Akwaaba, Shawn Dub (the homie), DJ Oro 11 (the homie). The flyer design was done by Samira Idroos.
We’re also playing music that isn’t really getting promoted widely in San Francisco. If you wanna hear Panamanian Reggae Soca, or Angolan Kuduro, or South African Kwaito, or U.K. Funky House, or U.K. Broken Beat, or Digital Cumbia, or Ivorian Coupe Decale, or Ghanian Hiplife, all in one place, and at the forefront, not mixed in or added as a footnote to another style, THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE!
The first one is at Anu Bar on 6th Street between Mission and Market in Downtown San Francisco! Keep an eye out for the next one as well!
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Tags: akwaaba, Anu Bar, oro 11, shawn dub, The Highlife, Third Space
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