• Ethnic & International

    Ethnic & International (17)

  • Hosanna Live

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Hosanna
    2. Ebube
    3. Mensi den Intro Ft Charlotte Acquah
    4. Mobo Wo Dzin Ft Uncle Ato
    5. Ka Kyere Jesus
    6. Yesu Nyame ba Ft Eugene Zuta / George Sekyi
    7. Jesus M’agyenkwa Ft Esther Godwyll
    8. Hymn Medley Ft Uncle Ato
    9. Kristofo Ft Eugene Degadzor
    10. The Name Jesus Ft Dulcie Yates / Felicia Crentsil
    11. Jesus Jesus Ft David Crentsil / Charles Pettingle
    12. Hosanna (Studio)

    Hosanna Live

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  • Akpe (Bethel Revival Choir)

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Malorwo (I’ll love you)
    2. Fix It (Featuring Calvis Hammond & Pastor Eliot Lamptey)
    3. Yesu Akpe
    4. Ensuro (Fear Not)
    5. Agbadza Gospel Medley
    6. Yedawase
    7. Mawu ana
    8. Wodekako (Only You)
    9. Selah (The Lord’s Prayer)
    10. Ewe Hymn Medley
    11. Mawugbagbe/Halleluyah (Featuring Joe Mettle)
    12. Mawu Akpenawo (Featuring Eugene Zuta)
    13. Akpe
    14. Ava fia Kristo/Yehowa
    15. Ewe Praise Medley (Featuring Joe Mettle)
  • Covenant – by Estarch

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Keep Trusting
    2. Praise You Lord
    3. Apam (Covenant) Featuring Eric KB
    4. Ebenezer
    5. Big God Featuring Mrs Zadi and Minister Tolu
    6. Praise Solution
    7. Ayeyi Nwom
    8. Aboroso Featuring Nhyira Betty

  • Enyo – Bethel Revival Choir (Audio CD)

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Tegbe Tegbe (Forever) Ft Ps Edwin Dadson
    2. Ewe Praise Medley 2 (Teteyi) Ft Joe Mettle & Chief Prosper
    3. Agbadza Gospel Medley 3 (Va Dem Kaba)
    4. Enyo (He is Good) (Live Version) Ft Joe Mettle
    5. Mida Akpe (Give Thanks) Ft Dave Da Music Box & Mawutor Tettey
    6. Xorla (Savior) Ft Ps Helen Yawson
    7. Nyemaku o (I will not die) Ft Ps Isaiah Fosu-Kwakye & Osborn Agbodovi
    8. Trusting (Do nu ɖe nu) Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
    9. Kpe Gbadza (Solid Rock) – Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
    10. Enyo Spontaneous Worship Ft Joe Mettle
    11. Power Medley (Nukunu Mawu)
    12. Ewe Bongo Worship Ft Akesse Brempong

  • Audience of One – Audio CD

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Prayer
    2. Worthy One
    3. Judah Dzata (Lion of Judah)
    4. Audience of One (God is Here)
    5. Shiwoonɔyeli Nyɔŋmo (Fɛɛ Mli)
    6. Wait
    7. Kosie Ansa
    8. Brɛbrɛ
    9. Mindaoshi (My Jubilee Song)

    Also includes Image cards of all the lyrics.

  • Tu Wo Ho Fo – Audio CD

    Tracks in this album:

    1. Yen ara Y’asaase
    2. Gyato
    3. Mr. Traveller
    4. Tu wo ho fo (Immediate Effect)
    5. Aduane Nyinya
    6. Palm Wine Love
    7. Dedeende Kwao ee/Nkete nkete nkete

     

  • Nene Narh Sings : Soulful Praise – Audio CD

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    Tracks in this album:

    1. I will just say Yes
    2. Mope ji Mawu
    3. Maja Mo
    4. My Heart will trust in You

     

  • Sharing Knowledge and Experience: A Profile of Kwabena Nketia – Scholar and Music Educator

    Kwabena Nketia was a renowned scholar, linguist, composer, poet, researcher, teacher and musicologist in Ghana. His writings have become standard reference works on African musicology, and his work spanned many countries and interests. Nketia maintained a strong interest in Afro-American concerns, African musical traditions and Africans and blacks in the diaspora; and he worked tirelessly on establishing a theoretical framework of African music; consciousness of African identity in music; and to produce publications representing his own musical culture.

    This biography concentrates on the educational and research aspects of Nketia’s work, assessing the importance of his contribution to African musicology, thought on music education, and practical application of ethnomusicology and composition in teaching method, and exercises in African rhythm.

  • The Creative Potential of African Art Music in Ghana: A Personal Testimony (Companion Booklet to ICAMD CD Recordings)

    This booklet on the Creative Potential of African Music in Ghana: A Personal Testimony is dedicated to the memory of Professor Albert Mawere Opoku for his unique contribution to Dance Theatre in Ghana, his close collaboration with colleagues in artistic research projects, and his enthusiastic and encouraging interest in the creative work of artists in cognate fields. Nothing would have pleased him more than to be part of the launch of the four volumes of CD recordings of a selection of my musical works, for he was always making cassette dubbings of my music for his friends. I believe that this Companion Booklet will be of interest not only to his circle of friends but also to other music lovers, students and the general public.

    With this readership in mind, the scope of the booklet has been limited to a few personal observations. It does not tell the complete story of African Art Music in Ghana or Africa in general, something I hope our younger scholars will work on as scores and other sources of data become available. It is simply the story of an individual composer and his works, his reflections and comments on his experience as an African composer, which he presents in conjunction with the CD recordings of his works as testimonies of the creative potential of African art music. For a fuller and more objective account of my life and work, I would like to refer readers to Eric Akrofi: Sharing Knowledge and Experience: A Profile of J. H. Kwabena Nketia (Afram Publications 2003) and Akin Euba: Creative Musicology: A Study of J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Centre for Intercultural Studies, Berkeley.

  • Ethnomusicology and African Music: Modes of inquiry and interpretation Vol 1

    The volume in hand deals with modes of inquiry and interpretation broadly organised into sections on theory, and historical and creative studies. The section on theoretical issues comprises papers on: the problem of meaning in African music; musicology and African music; the juncture of the social and the musical; integrating objectivity and experience in ethnomusicological studies; the aesthetic dimension in ethnomusicological studies; universal perspectives in ethnomusicology; and contextual strategies of inquiry and systematisation.

    The section on creative and historical topics covers the following: the history of music in African culture; history and the organization of music in West Africa; historical evidence in Ga religious music; processes of differentiation and interdependency in African music; African musical roots in the Americas; and developing contemporary idioms out of traditional music.

  • African Pianism: Twelve Pedagogical Pieces

    “African Pianism refers to a style of piano music which derives its characteristic idiom from the procedures of African percussion music as exemplified in bell patterns, drumming, xylophone and mbira music. It may use simple or extended rhythmic motifs or the lyricism of traditional songs and even those of African popular music as the basis of its rhythmic phrases. It is open ended as far as the use of tonal materials is concerned except that it may draw on the modal and cadential characteristics of traditional music.

    “Its harmonic idiom may be tonal, atonal, consonant or dissonant in whole or in part, depending on the preferences of the composer, the mood or impressions he wishes to create or how he chooses to reinforce, heighten or soften the jaggedness of successive percussive attacks. In this respect the African composer does not have to tie himself down to any particular school of writing if his primary aim is to explore the potential of African rhythmic and tonal usages.”

    Although I have felt the need for this kind of material even in the 1950s, most of the Twelve Pedagogical Pieces in this volume were written when the school of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana was established in the 1960s in order to give the African piano student being nurtured on simplified and original versions of Western piano repertoire something with African rhythmic and tonal flavour that may enrich his experience, shapes his orientation, sense of timing and coordination of rhythmic and tonal events.

    As the titles of the pieces indicate, I have used a variety of traditional and popular sources as the basis of the compositions. Each source establishes a framework of rhythmic and tonal configuration from which a few idiomatic derivatives are made and used in the inner and outer structures of the piece in such a way as to create a perpetual feeling of propulsive motion. Each piece is sustained by a particular quality of motion created in this manner.

    As in traditional African practice each piece can be repeated once or twice except where a definite closure is indicated by a retard. The pianist can also select a number of them and play them as a suite. A few of them such as the Volta Fantasy and Meditation can stand on their own as concert pieces and have been presented in that manner by both African and Western pianist. It is my hope, there- fore, that some of the pedagogical pieces will be of general interest. – J. H. Kwabena Nketia

  • Joyful Way Incorporated: Golden Jubilee Anthology (Audio CD, 3 CDs in a pack)

    Tracks 

    CD 1

    1. JUBILEE PRAISE JAM – ASEDA AKYI [Prince Anderson & Kate Hammond, 2016] | ODI YƐN ANIM [Ace Anan Ankomah, 2022 & Linda Boateng, 2010] | WƆKƐ JƆƆMƆ [Kate Hammond, 2018] | MEYI EWURADZE AYƐW [Daniel Grant & Ace Anan Ankomah, 2022] | WOSO NA WOKRƆN [Faustina Amponsah, 2001]
    2. OSE SORONKO – OSEE YIE AYEE [Ace Anan Ankomah & Kwabena Adjei-Seffah, 1999; JWI Music Directorate, 2020] | YESU ANAA [Ace Anan Ankomah & Kwabena Adjei-Seffah, 1999] | YESU OSE [Traditional chant] | NTONTON NKA EWURADZE [Betty Dzokoto, 1978] | WONYI AWURADZE AYƐW [Betty Dzokoto, 1978] | YƐ WƆ GYEFO BI [Samuel Ewool, 1999] | YIW YESU YE [Rev Dr Samuel Kisseadoo, 1977] | OSEE YIE AYEE [reprise]
    3. BƐGYE W’AYEYI [Sackey Bennin, 1991] | ƆSABARIMA [Sackey Bennin, 1992]
    4. WƆNJIE OYI [TVO Lamptey, 1986] | OSEE YIE [Sackey Bennin, 1992] [Wᴐnjie Oyi Rap written by Theophilus Aryee; Osee Yie Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah]
    5. ASEDA [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1971] | NYAME FATA AYEYI [Wing Commander (Rtd) Samuel Allotey, 1982]
    6. HYERƐÑ [Rev John Egyir-Croffet, 1984] | DROMƆ [TVO Lamptey, 1987]
    7. BRA YESU [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972] | WOAKYINKYIN [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1971] | SAN BRA [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972]
    8. EWURADZE BƐBA [Sackey Bennin, 1983] | WE SHALL BE THERE [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1972]

     

    CD 2

    1. W’AHENNI [Ace Anan Ankomah, 1991] | GUANHWƐFO [Ace Anan Ankomah, 1992]
    2. NYAME YƐ ƆHEN [Ace Anan Ankomah, 2000] | HALLELUJAH AMEN [Prof Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, 1978]
    3. JESUS [Patrick Osei-Hwere, 1990]
    4. BURDENS DOWN [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1973] | BREAD OF LIFE [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1973]
    5. NEA ƆDƆ NYAME [Ace Anan Ankomah & Pearl Afenyo, 1997] | ME TWƐN YEHOWA [Ace Anan Ankomah & Josephine Anan-Ankomah, 2015] | BARIMA YESU [Ace Anan Ankomah & Solomon Ocquaye, 2003]
    6. WOSƐ AYEYI [Faustina Amponsah, 2004] | YEHOWA JI MI LA [Patience Attram-Danso & Geoff Anno, 2004] | DΕN NA ƐBΕTWE (coda) [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1972]
    7. NEVER GIVE UP [Justice Akushie, 1983] | I’VE FOUND IT [Justice Akushie, 1981] [Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah & Daniel Grant]
    8. SUPER MAN JESUS [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1974] | MAN OF CALVARY [Rev Dr Solomon Aryeetey, 1973] | COME TO JESUS [Kweku Anafo Frimpong, 1971] [Rap written by Ace Anan Ankomah & Daniel Grant]

     

    CD 3

    1. JESUS THANK YOU [TVO Lamptey, 1977] | JESUS CHRIST OF CALVARY [Dantewa Donkor, 1971]
    2. THRU’ THE YEARS [Sackey Bennin, 1987] | HELP (coda) [Prof Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, 1981]
    3. JESUS FOR YOU (Altar Call) [Rt Rev Prof Emmanuel Lartey, 1971]
    4. I’VE FOUND IT [Justice Akushie, 1981] | NEVER GIVE UP [Justice Akushie, 1983] (Future) [Rap written by Daniel Grant]
    5. JESUS FOR YOU [Rt Rev Prof Emmanuel Lartey, 1971] | ANWANWA DƆ [Betty Dzokoto, 1990] | NYAME YƐ Ɔ [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1974] | BRA YESU HƆ [Edwin Akyea Asamoah, 1972] (Jazzed Up)
    6. W’AHENNI | GUANHWƐFO (Saxophone & Guitar Reprise)
    7. NYAME YƐ ƆHEN (Saxophone & Guitar Reprise)
    8. I’VE FOUND IT (Piano Reprise)
  • Enyo – Bethel Revival Choir (MP3 Audio/MP4 Video)

    Tracks 0n this album:

    1. Tegbe Tegbe (Forever) Ft Ps Edwin Dadson
    2. Ewe Praise Medley 2 (Teteyi) Ft Joe Mettle & Chief Prosper
    3. Agbadza Gospel Medley 3 (Va Dem Kaba)
    4. Enyo (He is Good) (Live Version) Ft Joe Mettle
    5. Mida Akpe (Give Thanks) Ft Dave Da Music Box & Mawutor Tettey
    6. Xorla (Savior) Ft Ps Helen Yawson
    7. Nyemaku o (I will not die) Ft Ps Isaiah Fosu-Kwakye & Osborn Agbodovi
    8. No Weapon (Nyema Ku o Reprise) Ft Ps Isaiah Fosu-Kwakye & Osborn Agbodovi
    9. Trusting (Do nu ɖe nu) Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
    10. Kpe Gbadza (Solid Rock) – Ft Ps Jennifer Kofi
    11. Enyo Spontaneous Worship Ft Joe Mettle
    12. Power Medley (Nukunu Mawu)
    13. Ewe Bongo Worship Ft Akesse Brempong
    14. Enyo (Studio Version)
    15. Revival

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