Showing posts with label Nana Budjei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nana Budjei. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Ghana Highlife - The London Connection



Over the last few months I've been posting a disproportionate amount of sweet Ghana highlife from the '80s. I just happened to digitize quite a bit of this music a while back and I'm sure you don't mind!

I've discussed here also the circumstances that led to so much of this music being recorded and produced outside of Ghana - an economic crisis that resulted in many musicians finding refuge in West Germany, Canada and other far-flung places, including the US. I present today a product of the thriving Ghana music scene in the United Kingdom. Of course, because of their shared colonial history, Britain has always been a destination for citizens of Ghana, economic crisis or not!

I've been unable to find out anything about this musician, Nana Budjei. The album, Afrikaman (KBN 02, 1989), is a great example of the sort of sparkly, innovative highlife that was being produced in London during this period. Especially notable is the soukous-flavored guitar work of Sierra Leonean  Abdul Tee-Jay. Very nice! Nothing much else to say. Enjoy!

Nana Budjei - Afrikaman






Download Afrikaman as a zipped file here.