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ARTIST
ACCRA QUARTET
TITLE
Gbɛfalɔi
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FPE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FPE 066LP
FPE 066LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
8/30/2024
"Recorded on a hot night in a one-room gospel music studio in the New Town district of Accra, comes
Gbɛfalɔi
-- a remarkable record exploring the edges of contemporary African music. Ghanaian trombonist
Elikplim Kofi
and American guitarist
Nathaniel Braddock
had met at a concert at Accra's Alliance Française in 2017 when they both performed as members of the
Abiza
band. When Eli heard that Braddock was returning to Ghana in 2019, he reached out via WhatsApp to suggest a collaboration, sharing a sketch of a song and asking Braddock to produce a collaboration record. That August, they set up the session joined by two percussionists, known as
Black and Brown
. This session is the product of that night. Contemporary music in Ghana is dominated by a mix of Afrobeats, electric gospel, and an emergent revival of highlife stars from the 1970s. This set of improvised music sits on a different axis -- at once traditional and Avant Garde, ancient and futuritive, extremely local and thoroughly cosmopolitan. Anchored in folkloric instruments and free improvisation, the music is more like the
Art Ensemble of Chicago
than the court drummers of the Ashanti king. A rare gem."
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