Your Favorite Ghanaian Clowns Are Back

Your Favorite Ghanaian Clowns Are Back

Well actually, it’s more like they never left. Hey have you listened to their new song Thank God We Are Not A Nigerian? Funny stuff. You may want to take a moment and read through the (mostly explicit) comments left on their Facebook page by irate Nigerians. It seems the song has not yet reached one with a sense of humor, hopefully this post will help stir this great nation in the right direction!

Also well worth watching is this nice freestyle courtesy of the Bois and dontwatchthat.tv.

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Your Favorite Ghanaian Clowns Are Back

Well actually, it’s more like they never left. Hey have you listened to their new song Thank God We Are Not A Nigerian? Funny stuff. You may want to take a moment and read through the (mostly explicit) comments left on their Facebook page by irate Nigerians. It seems the song has not yet reached one with a sense of humor, hopefully this post will help stir this great nation in the right direction!

Also well worth watching is this nice freestyle courtesy of the Bois and dontwatchthat.tv.

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Limited Edition FOKN Bois CD – Made in Ghana

Limited Edition FOKN Bois CD – Made in Ghana


Akwaaba, digital label? Scratch that. We’ve got one hundred CDs under our belt. Made in Ghana that is! Numbered and shipping from Accra as of today. We won’t make any more, sooooo we suggest you act FASTA FASTA if you want to get a copy! Link to buy is on the Bandcamp page – and you get a free digital copy included. Not so bad, huh? Have you ever owned a CD made in Ghana? Or even received a package from Ghana? With fly-arse Ghanaian stamps on it? Wait, why are you still on this page? The action is over here people, don’t sleep!

 

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Limited Edition FOKN Bois CD – Made in Ghana


Akwaaba, digital label? Scratch that. We’ve got one hundred CDs under our belt. Made in Ghana that is! Numbered and shipping from Accra as of today. We won’t make any more, sooooo we suggest you act FASTA FASTA if you want to get a copy! Link to buy is on the Bandcamp page – and you get a free digital copy included. Not so bad, huh? Have you ever owned a CD made in Ghana? Or even received a package from Ghana? With fly-arse Ghanaian stamps on it? Wait, why are you still on this page? The action is over here people, don’t sleep!

 

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Lungu Lungu: New Akwaaba Column for Fader Magazine

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In case you missed the first installment of our new Lungu Lungu column over at Fader Mag, here’s the second piece, this time about one of our current favorites down here in Ghana, Shadow, the one man operation that is literally lifting the entire Buduburam Liberia Refugee Camp, and bringing Liberia’s sounds to Ghanaians, and now to you, worldwide! Grab his sick gbema track “Killing Me”: gbema is a traditional rhythm, which Shadow has successfully carried into the Fruity Loop age. Think Shangaan electro, but this time a weeee bit more musical. Shadow you are the MAN!!!!

And in case you miss it, the first freebie we shared with Fader, a lil’ sumfin from the FOKN Bois, which gave its name to the column:

Music is our business…

Throughout the months of October and November this year, the international workshop program “Buzz Meets Biz” is taking place in Germany, Spain, and Ghana, bringing together young music professionals from the mentioned nations plus the UK. Not only active artists but also promoters, bloggers, label owners, and other professionals in the musical field are involved, covering all kinds of modern genres. Through networking, sharing knowledge and experiences, and participating in educative workshops, these young creatives will be inspired and taught to take confident and smart steps in the tough world of show biz.

PART 3 – ACCRA, GHANA

November 18 – 30, 2017

The third and last part of the mobility program will take place here in Accra. Complementing the two past workshop series on the economic issues of music, this session will focus on music itself. Creativity process, production, performance and an insight into the Ghanaian music scene will all contribute to the grand finale of this international project.

 

The mobility program is organized in cooperation of Akwaaba MusicMusic Pool BerliniRightsFundación SGAECooperación EspañolaGoethe-Institut and the Alliance Française Accra. The programme is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and Goethe-Institut Ghana.

**follow #buzzmeetsbiz on Instagram and Twitter or check the official website**

 

Watch out for our events and foreign artist gigs!

AKWAABA!

IMPRESSIONS COMING SOON.  🙂

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Via our new Lungu Lungu column over at The Fader:

Apparently the end of the world has been either canceled or delayed. The reason is pretty clear to me: FOKN Bois just released their latest album, The FOKN DunaQuest in Budapest, and it needs a bit of space before we can all proceed with the end of times. Surely it will happen—on Ghana time.

The FOKN Bois, aka Wanlov the Kubolor and M3nsa, are not your average Ghanaian rappers. They reside far from the shady world of payola and corporate sponsorships that seriously limits the recognition of creative artists in Ghana. The Bois are closer to the streets, as exemplified in their amazingly fresh Coz Ov Moni pidgin English musical. They’re no payola policy means they’re not the most played artists on Ghana’s radio stations. However, after spending about 5 seconds on the streets of Accra with Wanlov, it’s pretty clear he is incredibly popular, a genuine artist recognized by people from all walks of life.

But forget Ghana for a second. Their latest collaboration with Hungary’s Irie Maffia can hardly be pigeon-holed as “Ghana music”—whatever that may mean, anyway. Instead of paraphrasing the story of how the album came to be, I’ll let Wanlov tell it. Check the video, below, to find out how these dudes ended up in Budapest, and better understand the double meaning of lungu lungu, a phrase that alludes to zigzagging through back streets, and also, corruption.

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Via our new Lungu Lungu column over at The Fader:

Apparently the end of the world has been either canceled or delayed. The reason is pretty clear to me: FOKN Bois just released their latest album, The FOKN DunaQuest in Budapest, and it needs a bit of space before we can all proceed with the end of times. Surely it will happen—on Ghana time.

The FOKN Bois, aka Wanlov the Kubolor and M3nsa, are not your average Ghanaian rappers. They reside far from the shady world of payola and corporate sponsorships that seriously limits the recognition of creative artists in Ghana. The Bois are closer to the streets, as exemplified in their amazingly fresh Coz Ov Moni pidgin English musical. They’re no payola policy means they’re not the most played artists on Ghana’s radio stations. However, after spending about 5 seconds on the streets of Accra with Wanlov, it’s pretty clear he is incredibly popular, a genuine artist recognized by people from all walks of life.

But forget Ghana for a second. Their latest collaboration with Hungary’s Irie Maffia can hardly be pigeon-holed as “Ghana music”—whatever that may mean, anyway. Instead of paraphrasing the story of how the album came to be, I’ll let Wanlov tell it. Check the video, below, to find out how these dudes ended up in Budapest, and better understand the double meaning of lungu lungu, a phrase that alludes to zigzagging through back streets, and also, corruption.

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After running around Accra because of money, the FOKN Bois left for Budapest, hungry on a quest to find the finest duna (arse). They were kidnapped by the infamous Irie Maffia, a notorious band of musicians, singers, songwriters, deejays, producers, rappers…and fed only palinka and bread in a hot studio in the nippy Buda hills close to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s home.

In 5 days they were forced to do 4 gigs and record 8 tracks… It was sleepless hell… They managed to escape when the producer, Elo Marton, who was trying to water board more lyrics out of the exhausted FOKN Bois at a Turkish bath, absentmindedly gazed at singer/songwriter Sena’s duna as she sauntered by distractingly.

Now the tracks are out and sound so good that the FOKN Bois have forgiven Irie Maffia for the conditions by which this beautiful record came together.  In their words: “We see demma Maffia side, but now everything be Irie.”

The FOKN Dunaquest in Budapest is a sonic Hiphop/Dance/Afropop adventure from Budapest to Bucharest, Brenham to Boston and Bolgatanga to Bubuashie! Eastern Europe meets West Africa…apio meets palinka. Ha!!!

Grab FOKN Future for free – we just ask for your email, and we won’t share it, promise!

Grab the entire release directly from Bandcamp, or in iTunes. Available in every other major internet store next week!

 

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After running around Accra because of money, the FOKN Bois left for Budapest, hungry on a quest to find the finest duna (arse). They were kidnapped by the infamous Irie Maffia, a notorious band of musicians, singers, songwriters, deejays, producers, rappers…and fed only palinka and bread in a hot studio in the nippy Buda hills close to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s home.

In 5 days they were forced to do 4 gigs and record 8 tracks… It was sleepless hell… They managed to escape when the producer, Elo Marton, who was trying to water board more lyrics out of the exhausted FOKN Bois at a Turkish bath, absentmindedly gazed at singer/songwriter Sena’s duna as she sauntered by distractingly.

Now the tracks are out and sound so good that the FOKN Bois have forgiven Irie Maffia for the conditions by which this beautiful record came together.  In their words: “We see demma Maffia side, but now everything be Irie.”

The FOKN Dunaquest in Budapest is a sonic Hiphop/Dance/Afropop adventure from Budapest to Bucharest, Brenham to Boston and Bolgatanga to Bubuashie! Eastern Europe meets West Africa…apio meets palinka. Ha!!!

Grab FOKN Future for free – we just ask for your email, and we won’t share it, promise!

Grab the entire release directly from Bandcamp, or in iTunes. Available in every other major internet store next week!

 

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