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RELEASE DATE: 2/14/2025
"Life has never been easy, so keep moving" is the opening line of "Making Moves," the title song of Santrofi's new album. In 2021 their celebrated debut Alewa introduced this eight-piece Highlife collective powerhouse from Accra to the world. After five solid years on the road, Santrofi is now ready to release some fresh material. co-produced and mixed by four-time Grammy Award winner Jerry Boys (REM, Ali Farka Toure, Buena Vista Social Club, Orchestra Baobab, Kronos Quartet). Making Moves is both a celebration of Santrofi's roots and a leap into the future of Highlife. The opening track "Amina" is a Ghanaian childhood game turned Highlife funk. It draws from the past, pushing it into the future. The title song "Making Moves" sees Santrofi team up with the current booming Afrobeatscene in Ghana: It features Ghanas Newcomers Kofi Jamar and Arathejay. "Su nkwa" sees Santrofi celebrating their love for typical Sikji Highlife music. From the opening Highlife funk of "Amina" to the Ghanaian-childhood-game-turned- boogie-banger "Gyae Me How," this record will get you dancing. Led by producer-bassist Kojo Ofori, Santrofi unites eight of Accra's most gifted musicians with a passion for both vintage highlife grooves and a hip hop sensibility. Members of the band have played with leading Ghanaian artists including Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Ambolley, AK Yeboah, and highlife pioneer AB Crentsil with whom they recorded just before he passed away. Santrofi have shared stage and studio with rising stars of Ghana's vibrant urban music scene such as Kidi, Yaw Tog, Black Sherif, AratheJay and even Nigerian superstar Wizkid.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/14/2025
LP version. "Life has never been easy, so keep moving" is the opening line of "Making Moves," the title song of Santrofi's new album. In 2021 their celebrated debut Alewa introduced this eight-piece Highlife collective powerhouse from Accra to the world. After five solid years on the road, Santrofi is now ready to release some fresh material. co-produced and mixed by four-time Grammy Award winner Jerry Boys (REM, Ali Farka Toure, Buena Vista Social Club, Orchestra Baobab, Kronos Quartet). Making Moves is both a celebration of Santrofi's roots and a leap into the future of Highlife. The opening track "Amina" is a Ghanaian childhood game turned Highlife funk. It draws from the past, pushing it into the future. The title song "Making Moves" sees Santrofi team up with the current booming Afrobeatscene in Ghana: It features Ghanas Newcomers Kofi Jamar and Arathejay. "Su nkwa" sees Santrofi celebrating their love for typical Sikji Highlife music. From the opening Highlife funk of "Amina" to the Ghanaian-childhood-game-turned- boogie-banger "Gyae Me How," this record will get you dancing. Led by producer-bassist Kojo Ofori, Santrofi unites eight of Accra's most gifted musicians with a passion for both vintage highlife grooves and a hip hop sensibility. Members of the band have played with leading Ghanaian artists including Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Ambolley, AK Yeboah, and highlife pioneer AB Crentsil with whom they recorded just before he passed away. Santrofi have shared stage and studio with rising stars of Ghana's vibrant urban music scene such as Kidi, Yaw Tog, Black Sherif, AratheJay and even Nigerian superstar Wizkid.
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"Even without an album out: [Santrofi] have already set the world on fire freaking out audiences all over Europe on their 2019 summer festival tour including Sines in Portugal, WOMAD in UK, Roskilde and WOMEX in Tampere. This young all-star band from Ghana brims with gifted musicians and energy on stage. The eight-piece collective is made up of a young generation of awarded musicians who have backed anyone in Ghana from Azonto sensation Sarkodie to Nigerian superstar 2 Face Idibia, but their passion isn't local pop but highlife. And their mission is to bring it back; not only to the world but also to Ghana, where the young generation has forgotten all about this great music. Santrofi's debut album Alewa now brings you a new wave of fresh highlife founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the source having played with Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, and Kwashibu Area Band, and has now formed his own band collective: Santrofi. The eight musicians are deeply rooted in vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms. The influences range from the riveting fast-paced pulse of '70s dance-guitar highlife, or the other-worldly sound of highlife funk to the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took Afrobeat across the globe. The members have toured the world with legends like Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Osibisa, George Darko, and many others. They have learnt from the masters and are now ready to take highlife into the future. Alewa is a metaphor for a popularly known local black and white striped sweet. It symbolizes the need to recognize, accept, tolerate and embrace racial diversity to build a world with love and unity. On stage, Santrofi breaks down hierarchies the musicians alternate their roles each growing on the other's talent while harmonizing as a whole. Alewa was composed arranged, produced, and recorded in Ghana in a joint effort by Santrofi. Santrofi in Akan mythology is a rare and precious bird, identified by its bright colors and four wings; it is so unique, it was forbidden to be hunted. Attempting to catch and lock up the bird will bring you bad luck. If spotted and left to fly away, great luck and fortune can be expected. So let the bird fly!" Santrofi in Songlines CD version includes booklet.
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LP version. Includes booklet and download code. "Even without an album out: [Santrofi] have already set the world on fire freaking out audiences all over Europe on their 2019 summer festival tour including Sines in Portugal, WOMAD in UK, Roskilde and WOMEX in Tampere. This young all-star band from Ghana brims with gifted musicians and energy on stage. The eight-piece collective is made up of a young generation of awarded musicians who have backed anyone in Ghana from Azonto sensation Sarkodie to Nigerian superstar 2 Face Idibia, but their passion isn't local pop but highlife. And their mission is to bring it back; not only to the world but also to Ghana, where the young generation has forgotten all about this great music. Santrofi's debut album Alewa now brings you a new wave of fresh highlife founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the source having played with Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, and Kwashibu Area Band, and has now formed his own band collective: Santrofi. The eight musicians are deeply rooted in vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms. The influences range from the riveting fast-paced pulse of '70s dance-guitar highlife, or the other-worldly sound of highlife funk to the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took Afrobeat across the globe. The members have toured the world with legends like Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Osibisa, George Darko, and many others. They have learnt from the masters and are now ready to take highlife into the future. Alewa is a metaphor for a popularly known local black and white striped sweet. It symbolizes the need to recognize, accept, tolerate and embrace racial diversity to build a world with love and unity. On stage, Santrofi breaks down hierarchies the musicians alternate their roles each growing on the other's talent while harmonizing as a whole. Alewa was composed arranged, produced, and recorded in Ghana in a joint effort by Santrofi. Santrofi in Akan mythology is a rare and precious bird, identified by its bright colors and four wings; it is so unique, it was forbidden to be hunted. Attempting to catch and lock up the bird will bring you bad luck. If spotted and left to fly away, great luck and fortune can be expected. So let the bird fly!" Santrofi in Songlines
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