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01. CAPTAIN YABA - Neribalankina
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02. CAPTAIN YABA - Yaba Funk
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03. CAPTAIN YABA - Atole
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04. CAPTAIN YABA - Tinanure
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05. CAPTAIN YABA - Nzeba (Darling)
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06. CAPTAIN YABA - Tedose
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07. CAPTAIN YABA - Sung-Yataba
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08. CAPTAIN YABA - Neribalankina (Pre Mix)
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09. CAPTAIN YABA - Yaba Funk (Pre Mix)
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10. CAPTAIN YABA - Tinanure (Pre Mix)
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11. CAPTAIN YABA - Nzeba (Darling) (Pre Mix)
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12. CAPTAIN YABA - Sung-Yataba (Pre Mix)
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ARTIST
CAPTAIN YABA
TITLE
Yaba Funk Roots
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
RETROAFRIC
CATALOG #
RETRO 019CD
RETRO 019CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
4/28/2015
Originally released in 2003.
Captain Yaba
was the professional name of
Azongo Nyaaba
, who was born and raised in the dry grasslands of the far north of Ghana. He was four or five years old when he started playing the koliko (also known as the molo), an ancestor of the banjo.
Mac Tontoh
of the internationally famous band
Osibisa
brought Nyaaba to the Ghanaian capital, Accra, and there he began performing with various groups and as a soloist under the name Captain Yaba. In 1994 he recorded his second album of traditional Fra Fra songs, this one with a modern funk band called
Ninkribi
, and that raised sufficient interest abroad for Captain Yaba & Ninkribi to tour Europe. After returning to Ghana, Captain Yaba continued to perform on his own and in groups, but in 2001 he died of tuberculosis at barely past the age of 30. Two years later RetroAfric reissued the Captain Yaba-Ninkribi album, duplicating five of the tracks in their rough and even funkier mixes.
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