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Nene Narh Sings : Soulful Praise – Audio CD
Tracks in this album:
1. I will just say Yes
2. Mope ji Mawu
3. Maja Mo
4. My Heart will trust in You₵20.00 -
The Performing Arts in Africa: Ghanaian Perspectives
The Performing Arts in Africa: Ghanaian Perspectives
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From Britain to Bokoor: The Ghanaian Musical Journey of John Collins
Highlife, a popular West African genre, is easily the soundtrack to the life journey of the nation Ghana. And if there is one personality who has contributed the most to documenting it, it is Professor John Collins, a naturalized Ghanaian of British descent and a professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon. Collins originally accompanied his parents to Ghana in 1952, when his father was setting up the philosophy department at the University of Ghana. Returning to Britain with his mother, Collins was educated in Bristol, Manchester and London, earning a science degree. He was also playing music and then he returned to Ghana in 1969 to study archaeology and sociology at the University of Ghana.
Eventually he himself became an academic teaching and researching popular music. This book captures the life and music career of Collins. What makes him an enigma is his personal involvement on the road as a guitar playing member of concert party bands. His working relations with Fela, E.T. Mensah, Kofi Ghanaba, Victor Uwaifo, Prof. J. H. Kwabena Nketia and many legendary names in the music space of West Africa make him a legend in his own right. This is the story of a “white man” man who came to Africa to legitimize the place of highlife as consequential to world music
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A Guide for the Preparation of Primary School African Music Teaching Manuals
A Guide for the Preparation of Primary School African Music Teaching Manuals
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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.
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Asempa Hymns: Children’s Edition (Hardcover)
Asempa is the Twi word meaning “Good News”. Here is an English language hymn book with a difference. It not only includes 200 of the most popular British, German and American hymns, but it also brings together a similar number of compositions from Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world.
Produced in Ghana, Asempa Hymns contains some 90 items from that country including 28 “Ghana spirituals” traditionally sung by the Pentecostals but now gaining popularity in all churches. In many of these, there is a distinctive Ghanaian flavour, which this book and the companion music collection Ghana Praise make available for the first time to Christians in other lands.
The Western tradition of hymnody has served Africa well for many years, but the rich traditions of other countries have failed to spread, held up by barriers of language, denomination and communication. The appearance of Asempa Hymns, with its wide choice of hymns, from nearly all the continents, will help brothers and sisters in Christ in many lands to realise a new fellowship in song and will shorten the distances that divide us.
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Nene Narh Sings : Soulful Praise – Audio CD
Tracks in this album:
1. I will just say Yes
2. Mope ji Mawu
3. Maja Mo
4. My Heart will trust in You₵20.00 -
The Performing Arts in Africa: Ghanaian Perspectives
The Performing Arts in Africa: Ghanaian Perspectives
₵80.00 -
From Britain to Bokoor: The Ghanaian Musical Journey of John Collins
Highlife, a popular West African genre, is easily the soundtrack to the life journey of the nation Ghana. And if there is one personality who has contributed the most to documenting it, it is Professor John Collins, a naturalized Ghanaian of British descent and a professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon. Collins originally accompanied his parents to Ghana in 1952, when his father was setting up the philosophy department at the University of Ghana. Returning to Britain with his mother, Collins was educated in Bristol, Manchester and London, earning a science degree. He was also playing music and then he returned to Ghana in 1969 to study archaeology and sociology at the University of Ghana.
Eventually he himself became an academic teaching and researching popular music. This book captures the life and music career of Collins. What makes him an enigma is his personal involvement on the road as a guitar playing member of concert party bands. His working relations with Fela, E.T. Mensah, Kofi Ghanaba, Victor Uwaifo, Prof. J. H. Kwabena Nketia and many legendary names in the music space of West Africa make him a legend in his own right. This is the story of a “white man” man who came to Africa to legitimize the place of highlife as consequential to world music
₵250.00 -
A Guide for the Preparation of Primary School African Music Teaching Manuals
A Guide for the Preparation of Primary School African Music Teaching Manuals
₵20.00 -
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.
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Asempa Hymns: Children’s Edition (Hardcover)
Asempa is the Twi word meaning “Good News”. Here is an English language hymn book with a difference. It not only includes 200 of the most popular British, German and American hymns, but it also brings together a similar number of compositions from Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world.
Produced in Ghana, Asempa Hymns contains some 90 items from that country including 28 “Ghana spirituals” traditionally sung by the Pentecostals but now gaining popularity in all churches. In many of these, there is a distinctive Ghanaian flavour, which this book and the companion music collection Ghana Praise make available for the first time to Christians in other lands.
The Western tradition of hymnody has served Africa well for many years, but the rich traditions of other countries have failed to spread, held up by barriers of language, denomination and communication. The appearance of Asempa Hymns, with its wide choice of hymns, from nearly all the continents, will help brothers and sisters in Christ in many lands to realise a new fellowship in song and will shorten the distances that divide us.
₵50.00
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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₵150.00 -
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₵10.00 -
Faith of Our Fathers: A Call to Contend for the Christian Faith
A glance through the Bible reveals a call for God’s people not only to believe and live the gospel but also to safeguard the gospel and ensure that it is passed on to the next generation without distortion or contamination. Indeed, the fiercest battle of the Christian faith has been the battle against error and false teachers. It is against this background that God wants you to contend for the faith which was once and for all delivered to the saints. This book will help you do that effectively.
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A Complete Course in Senior High School Oral English (with Audio CD)
This material shows teachers and students how to recognise and produce the sounds of the English Language with specific attention to sounds that are problematic for speakers of English in West Africa. The exercises at the end of each level accompanied by some suggested answers helps students to self-evaluate their understanding.
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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
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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.
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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₵20.00Tu Wo Ho Fo – Audio CD
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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.
₵20.00Audience of One – Audio CD
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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₵10.00Covenant – by Estarch
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Akpe (Bethel Revival Choir)
Tracks in this album:
- Malorwo (I’ll love you)
- Fix It (Featuring Calvis Hammond & Pastor Eliot Lamptey)
- Yesu Akpe
- Ensuro (Fear Not)
- Agbadza Gospel Medley
- Yedawase
- Mawu ana
- Wodekako (Only You)
- Selah (The Lord’s Prayer)
- Ewe Hymn Medley
- Mawugbagbe/Halleluyah (Featuring Joe Mettle)
- Mawu Akpenawo (Featuring Eugene Zuta)
- Akpe
- Ava fia Kristo/Yehowa
- Ewe Praise Medley (Featuring Joe Mettle)
₵10.00Akpe (Bethel Revival Choir)
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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)₵10.00Hosanna Live
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God is Able
God is Able track list:
- Lala Hee [New Song] ft. Isaac Boadu(Abi Small)
- Ma Jie Oyi [I’ll Praise you]
- God Is Able ft. Curtis Quarcoo, Luigi Maclean
- Franco Jam ft. Musell Mensah
- Glorious in Majesty ft. Esther Godwyll
- No Rock like Our God
- Ma Jie Oyi (Live)
- None Like You
- Lala Hee Instrumental
₵10.00God is Able
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Ghana Praise: Tunes from Ghana, Africa and the World
African churches have inherited a rich tradition of hymnody from the West, but for too long the musical heritage of Asia and even of Africa itself has been neglected. Ghana Praise is a first step towards correcting this situation.
It contains 144 tunes by Ghanaian composers: 4 songs from Northern Ghana and 28 spirituals from Ghana’s Pentecostal churches. For the first time, the wealth of music by present and past generations of Ghanaian musicians is available in print for all to use; the geographical and denominational barriers which have discouraged the spread of hymn tunes in the past are breaking down.
In addition, Ghana Praise brings you 19 tunes from the rest of Africa and 33 from other parts of the world.
Ghana Praise is accompanied by a words book, Asempa Hymns, which contains words to fit the new tunes, as well as a selection of the most well-known Western hymns.
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Asempa Hymns (Words)
Asempa is the Twi word meaning “Good News”. Here is an English language hymn book with a difference. It not only includes 200 of the most popular British, German and American hymns, but it also brings together a similar number of compositions from Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world.
Produced in Ghana, Asempa Hymns contains some 90 items from that country including 28 “Ghana spirituals” traditionally sung by the Pentecostals but now gaining popularity in all churches. In many of these, there is a distinctive Ghanaian flavour, which this book and the companion music collection Ghana Praise make available for the first time to Christians in other lands.
The Western tradition of hymnody has served Africa well for many years, but the rich traditions of other countries have failed to spread, held up by barriers of language, denomination and communication. The appearance of Asempa Hymns, with its wide choice of hymns, from nearly all the continents, will help brothers and sisters in Christ in many lands to realise a new fellowship in song and will shorten the distances that divide us.
₵50.00Asempa Hymns (Words)
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Yesu Hi
Yesu Hi track list:
1. Okokroko
2. Odofo Pa (feat. HCMC)
3. Yesu Hi
4. Psalm 145 (feat. Rev Mouha)
5. Dibonyeni (feat. Lic Choir)
6. Toffee (feat. Rev Sam Nelson)
7. Praise Remix (feat. Joe Mettle)
8. Mebo Ne Dzin (feat. Uncle Ato)
9. Saamo Ohe
10. Hwe Yiye a Eye Pii (feat. Maxwell Enchill & Dani Makafui)
11. Manyie Yesu See
12. Yesu Hi (Live)
₵10.00Yesu Hi
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