VA - Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984: Ghana Music Power House (2021)
VA - Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984: Ghana Music Power House (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 448 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:58
Afrobeat, Funk, Disco, Highlife | Label: Analog Africa
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 448 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:58
Afrobeat, Funk, Disco, Highlife | Label: Analog Africa
Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was all ready for his 90th birthday party when the Covid pandemic hit. The legendary producer, businessman and founder of Ghana’s mighty Essiebons label had invited all his family and friends to the event and it was the disappointment at having to postpone that prompted Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb to propose a new compilation celebrating his contributions to the world of West African music.Tracklist:
For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who’s-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob ‘Roy’ Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.
Yet Essilfie-Bondzie had been destined for a very different career. Born in Apam and raised in Accra, he was sent to business school in London at the age of 20, and returned to the security of a government job in Ghana. But his passion for music, inspired by the sounds of Accra’s highlife scene, had never left him, and in 1967 he figured out a way of combining music and business by opening West Africa’s first record pressing plant.
The venture, a partnership with the Philips label, was a huge success, attracting business from all over the continent. By the early 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie had left his government job to concentrate on his labels, and by the mid-seventies he was on a hot streak injecting album after album of restless highlife into the bloodstream of the Ghanaian music scene.
Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the label’s heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Instrumental maszterpieces tracks from the label’s mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.
Sadly Essilfie-Bondzie passed away before the compilation was finished. But his legacy lives on in the extraordinary music that he gave to the world in his lifetime.
1. Ernest Honny – Kofi Psych (04:30)
2. Joe Meah – Dee Mmaa Pe (06:15)
3. CK Mann & His Carousel 7 – Yeaba (04:30)
4. Santrofi-Ansa – Shakabula (04:15)
5. SeaBoy – Tinitini (04:16)
6. Joe Meah – Ahwene Pa Nkasa (07:01)
7. Ernest Honny – Ernest Special (04:02)
8. SeaBoy – Africa (06:28)
9. Nyame Bekyere – Broken Hearts & Aunty Yaa & Omo Yaba (Nzema) [Medley] (10:43)
10. Ernest Honny – Say the Truth (06:08)
11. Black Masters Band – Wonnin a Bisa (05:34)
12. Sawaaba Soundz – Egye Tu Gbe (03:44)
13. CK Mann Big Band – Fa W'akoma Ma Me (04:14)
14. Ernest Honny – Odo Mframa (06:10)
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Ernest Honny / Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House
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Ernest Honny / Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House
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