The minor news is that I decided to switch to English in this blog. Due to the visitor statistics and the quite international subject (and of course at the risk of being ridiculed). A bit more interesting perhaps is the fact that Ebo Taylor is playing in Stockholm tonight at Göta Källare. Just having an old highlife star playing here is something. But Ebo Taylor is more than that, he is also a living example of the connections between highlife and afro beat. I didn't get the chance to meet him in person in Accra but I got to hear a lot about him from mr Essiebons, a gentleman in his eighties and also head of the family run Essiebons Music, with Ebo Taylor and CK Mann as its biggest stars.
Anyway, here's Taylor talking about the development of highlife and the influence of Nigerian music in Ghana.
And a Spotify link to Life and Death, the album Ebo Taylor released last year, mixing re-recorded classics and newly written songs. All in a slightly more psychedelic setting than you would have expected.
27/5: Linking to my review. A reader has commented on me not mentioning how good the concert in fact was. I thought I did, but maybe I got too stuck in the history of afro beat and other fascinating topics. Reading this review of the same concert, it does strike me that I sound a bit theoretical. So, just to be clear about it, Ebo Taylor indeed was awesome.
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