Tag Archives: Nana Quame
02/03 US: Move it Chaleh! iTunes Release

02/03 US: Move it Chaleh! iTunes Release

on January 26, 2009

Move it Chaleh! Words you might hear at an outdoor chop bar in Accra, Ghana, a calling for you to get up and shake it. A hint to the pungent grooves blasting out of subwoofers and beat up sound systems throughout West Africa today. Smaller, cheaper studios are sprouting all over big African cities, allowing [...]

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12/13 LA: KPFK strikes again!

on December 14, 2008

Nnamdi Moweta invited Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave to his show, Afrodicia, Saturday December 13 from 2 to 4pm. Nnamdi plays a lot of party music from all over the gulf of Guinea, soukous, highlife, afrobeat, hiplife, coupé décalé… Akwaaba fits right in, check it out!

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Hush Hush!

Hush Hush!

on October 2, 2007

ABK took me to Hush Hush today, one of Accra’s most famous recording studios. There I met King Sirus, an in-demand arranger for numerous hiplife artists. My head is still spinning from all the artists I met and tracks I heard… Some of the highlights include Sherifa Gunu, Nana Quame, Dogo and Rabbi. Most of [...]

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