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January 11, 2012

Asiakwa Brass Band – Anopa Nsonoma
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Asiakwa Brass Band, front

It was my first experience with brass highlife.
Mostly instrumental but somehow infectious,
kind of carnavalesque, parade style
highlife from Ghana, check..

tracks;

1 Wo tese mawu a didi
2 Madamfo pa
3 Maniso kyin me
4 Oda ne baa i
5 Me maame awo me
6 Suro wo dofo
7 Medley

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23 Comments

  1. Anonymous 11 January 2012 at 22:40 - Reply

    cool==thank you

  2. Anonymous 12 January 2012 at 17:45 - Reply

    THANK YOU
    Moos, I find this Great

    Could that be a 100 year old brass they are using.

    Many greetings Richard

  3. Anonymous 12 January 2012 at 17:45 - Reply

    THANK YOU
    Moos, I find this Great

    Could that be a 100 year old brass they are using.

    Many greetings Richard

  4. jan duinkerken 12 January 2012 at 19:35 - Reply

    Thank you for letting us hear this missing link!

  5. jan duinkerken 12 January 2012 at 19:35 - Reply

    Thank you for letting us hear this missing link!

  6. capkaye 13 January 2012 at 14:35 - Reply

    danke schön…..for this wonderful music…i remember as a teenager to hear brass band groups in ghana on funerals played all kinds of music..and such was in the 70s….that lead me into listening american jazz music…later… meda ase paa….

  7. capkaye 13 January 2012 at 14:35 - Reply

    danke schön…..for this wonderful music…i remember as a teenager to hear brass band groups in ghana on funerals played all kinds of music..and such was in the 70s….that lead me into listening american jazz music…later… meda ase paa….

  8. Anonymous 13 January 2012 at 15:05 - Reply

    Fantastic!

  9. Anonymous 13 January 2012 at 15:05 - Reply

    Fantastic!

  10. Anonymous 15 January 2012 at 18:52 - Reply

    This is truly groovy music. It reminds me of the brass bands from India and New Orleans, with that same “dancing in the streets” (or as you said, carnival “parade style”) feeling. Thanks.
    Norio

  11. Anonymous 15 January 2012 at 18:52 - Reply

    This is truly groovy music. It reminds me of the brass bands from India and New Orleans, with that same “dancing in the streets” (or as you said, carnival “parade style”) feeling. Thanks.
    Norio

  12. Mikey 22 January 2012 at 14:43 - Reply

    More brass highlife please.

    I didn’t even know it was a genre on its own.

    Thanks for the thousands of great global grooves moos.

  13. Mikey 22 January 2012 at 14:43 - Reply

    More brass highlife please.

    I didn’t even know it was a genre on its own.

    Thanks for the thousands of great global grooves moos.

  14. Anonymous 23 January 2012 at 03:07 - Reply

    the link is dead.

    thanks.

  15. Anonymous 23 January 2012 at 03:07 - Reply

    the link is dead.

    thanks.

  16. yvesfrancois 26 June 2012 at 16:48 - Reply

    the link is alive – and nice to have the entire album, one title (the last one) was reissued a few years ago on an Ghana CD I bought in a store in the north side of Chicago (High life Gold??) … thanks form Yves François

  17. yvesfrancois 26 June 2012 at 16:48 - Reply

    the link is alive – and nice to have the entire album, one title (the last one) was reissued a few years ago on an Ghana CD I bought in a store in the north side of Chicago (High life Gold??) … thanks form Yves François

  18. Highlife Fan 30 June 2012 at 21:23 - Reply

    Thanks a million for this Ghanaian Highlife stuff.

  19. Highlife Fan 30 June 2012 at 21:23 - Reply

    Thanks a million for this Ghanaian Highlife stuff.

  20. philip 24 September 2013 at 19:45 - Reply

    caramba man the link is dead… is there any chance for a re up? saludos desde colombia!

  21. veryan weston 7 September 2015 at 16:40 - Reply

    OK….a big THANK YOU for this little treat….!!! I also love the new Music Works Kopeyia School recordings…..it’s all a discovery for me Brass band music from Ghana….Ghana has such a lovely rich tradition of music….was very lucky to meet Ko Nimo when he came to England….he told me he played at Monk’s funeral all those years ago….wow!!!….best Veryan

  22. Robert 5 June 2021 at 19:17 - Reply

    Greetings again Moos. Digging deeper on this one following your recent post, it seems from discogs that this track list fits a different album: Wo Tese Mawu A Didi.

    https://www.discogs.com/Asiakwa-Brass-Band-Wo-Tese-Mawu-A-Didi/release/1839193

    But your album has the cover art from yet another album of theirs. Strange mixups happen in the world of re-releases.

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