Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats Dream Team

Dream Team

a Japanese city pop cover project by Blu-Swing vocalist Yuri Tanaka

who leads KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE and KYOTO JAZZ SEXTET

We close off the album with the ever so funky "You"

the visual illustration for the Miyazaki Car Ferry

Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats Dream TeamIn the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music. This style soundtracked the birth