Party: EBO TAYLOR & AFROBEAT ACADEMY, Ghana-Highlife & DJ Syll Matar

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EBO TAYLOR & AFROBEAT ACADEMY, Ghana-Highlife & DJ Syll Matar

Club: Lido Berlin

Upcoming: 63
Date: 03.04.2014 20:00
Address: Cuvrystrasse 7, Berlin, Germany | show on the map »

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Visitors - Women

Ahoi Kultur Laura Kloeckner Jumana Mensah Gloria Liebherr Andrea Goetzke Alia Mohammed Laura Correia Minervini 49% 31 Woman/Woman

Visitors - Men

Benjamin König Abdel Amine Ben Abarbanel-Wolff Simone Visentini Michail Reischman Dorian Boncoeur Bra Hudi 51% 32 Man/Men

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Party: EBO TAYLOR & AFROBEAT ACADEMY, Ghana-Highlife & DJ Syll Matar

musicians with EBO TAYLOR
& AFROBEAT ACADEMY are:
EKOW ALABI, DRUMS + VOCAL
HENRY TAYLOR, KEYBOARDS + VOCAL
ERIC OWUSU, PERCUSSION + VOCAL
BEN WOLFF, SAX + SHEKERE
FRANK BIYONG, RHYTHM GUITAR
PHILIP SINDY, TRUMPET + A GREAT AGOGO
JOCHEN LOVELITE, SOUND ENGINEER
OFORI EMMANUEL, BASS GUITAR

“I wanted to go back to a highlife feeling with this album,” explains Ebo Taylor. “The songs are very personal and it is an important part of my music to keep alive many traditional Fante songs, war chants and children’s rhymes.”
‘Appia Kwa Bridge’, released this April, is a strident return from the Ghanaian highlife guitar legend. Featuring six new compositions, his sound is more dense and tightly locked than ever with Berlin-based musicians Afrobeat Academy, a rock solid unit since regular touring worldwide following his ‘Love And Death’ album in 2010, including a string of dates for WOMAD. Jochen Stroh works his analogue magic once more from his base at Berlin’s Lovelite Studios.

The album covers a variety of themes dear to Taylor. The title track references a small bridge in Ebo’s hometown of Saltpond on the Cape Coast: “it is a tiny bridge but a place known in the town where people meet, where lovers get together.” The firing, rousing ‘Ayesama’, first demo-ed during the ‘Love And Death’ sessions, is a Fante war cry, a taunt – “what’s your mother’s name?”; ‘Nsu Na Kwan’, based on a Fante proverb, asks “Which is older – the river or the old road” with the sub-text to respect your elders and the brilliant ‘Abonsam’ carries the message that Abonsam (The Devil) is responsible for evil in the world and that we should follow the Christian message.

Elsewhere, the album features a new version of highlife anthem, ‘Yaa Amponsah’, first recorded during the ‘20s by Jacob Sam’s Sam’s Trio before becoming a popular standard in Ghana, and a cover of an original track from Taylor’s time with Apagya Show Band during the ’70s, ‘Serwa Brakatu’, re-titled here as ‘Kruman Dey’. The closer, the acoustic ‘Barrima’, is a poignant tribute to Taylor’s first wife and one true love who sadly passed away during Summer 2011. “Ebo wrote the song following her passing and recorded this in one take during our last day in the studio,” reflects bandleader Ben Abarbanel-Wolff. “He was very emotional.”

The album features a number of special guests within the credits including incomparable drummer Tony Allen, original Africa 70 guitarist Oghene Kologbo and conga maestro Addo Nettey a.k.a. Pax Nicholas. Representing the younger players, keyboard genius Kwame Yeboah, son of Ghanaian legend S.K. Yeboah, makes full use of Lovelite’s famed collection of Farfisa and Wurlitzer organs.

Invited: Birgit Zur Nieden, Gina Athena Ulysse, Benjamin König, Cindy Asamoah, Kingsley Addo, Donald Muldrow Griffith, Lulu Vdv, Mark Asamoah, Ahoi Kultur, Cosmas Kombat, Natasha A. Kelly, Olumide Popoola, Abdel Amine, Filiz Keküllüoğlu, John Amoateng Kantara, Leïla Saadna, Gerda Heck, Laury Achten, Elisa Kahlo, Maria-Gracia Guimarães, Rahman Satti show more »