Originally published in The Fader: It seems the word you hear the most in Accra is no longer “akwaaba” or even “chale”, but “azonto”. The azonto dance has taken Ghana by storm, and although everybody seems to know the dance here, nobody is really able to say where it came from or how it started. [...]
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X-Pensive Nframa – Aunty Adoley EP – Free!
X-Pensive Nframa – Aunty Adoley EP by Akwaaba Music This is our slowest release in the making!!! On Benjamin Lebrave’s very first trip to Ghana in the fall of 2007, he met with X-Pensive Nframa, an up and coming artist, who at the time had just released a phat single produced by then-hiplife maestro JQ. [...]
Get Yo Remix On: Double “Tatali”
It has not been easy to single out one song for our next remix contest… as a matter of fact, it’s been so difficult we’ve decided to change the way we do things: from now on we might have multiple remix contests at the same time. Why? Or why not? Up until now we’ve tried [...]
BigxGH.com: Friday Faves
More Ghana pop to prepare for more hazardous dance moves at drinking bars across the world… this week we picked three unknown newcomers. Well, unknown to us. The highlife guitar is long-gone, the production is percussive and minimal: this is GH 2011. So here are our top picks from bigxgh.com‘s massive weekly promotional selection. In [...]
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