Last Updated 11/14/2024 02:23 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$23.50
$23.50
IN STOCK
01. Edikanfo - Nka Bom
Your browser does not support the audio element.
02. Edikanfo - Something Lefeh-O
Your browser does not support the audio element.
03. Edikanfo - Gbenta
Your browser does not support the audio element.
04. Edikanfo - Blinking Eyes
Your browser does not support the audio element.
05. Edikanfo - Moonlight Africa
Your browser does not support the audio element.
06. Edikanfo - Daa Daa Edikanfo
Your browser does not support the audio element.
ARTIST
EDIKANFO
TITLE
The Pace Setters
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
GLITTERBEAT
CATALOG #
GB 094LP
GB 094LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
10/9/2020
LP version. Includes download code. Glitterbeat present the first-ever reissue of
The Pace Setters
, the classic 1981 debut album from this much revered Ghanaian band
Edikanfo
. Vibrantly produced by British sound explorer
Brian Eno
in Accra, Ghana. Highlife meets Afro-funk. Almost four decades after a coup d'état in Ghana prematurely halted their career, Edikanfo's surviving band members are at last gearing up to reissue and tour
The Pace Setters
. Features exclusive liner notes from Eno and an extensive interview with Edikanfo band leader,
Gilbert Amartey Amar
. In 1981, London-based E.G. Records released the debut album from a young Ghanaian group called Edikanfo. The eight-piece band was the last group to be managed by the late
Faisal Helwani
, a charismatic impresario who was based at the popular Napoleon Club in Osu, a suburb in Ghana's teeming capital Accra. Edikanfo quickly rose to international notoriety following the release of
The Pace Setters
because of the infectious, forward-looking highlife meets Afro-funk synthesis the band committed to tape. But the album also caught an additional wind of publicity due to its producer, the already legendary British musician and sound conceptualist Brian Eno. During that time, Eno was researching and openly propagating West African music. He recently collaborated with
Talking Heads
on
Remain in Light
(1980) and with Talking Heads frontman
David Byrne
on
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(1981). Eno and Edikanfo's work together at Studio One in Accra (Ghana) was yet another inspired morphing of soundworlds and processes and a significant touchstone for both artists. Just when the sky seemed the limit for Edikanfo, the coup d'état in Ghana on the last day of 1981, tragically put the brakes on the band's quickly developing fortunes. For years after that, the country endured enforced curfews at night, which of course ultimately gutted the live music scene in Accra and elsewhere. Because of this and other financial setbacks, the band ceased activity and its members spread out in exile, all over the world. Now, almost four decades later, Edikanfo has returned. And with its surviving members gearing up to reissue and tour their classic 1981 album,
The Pace Setters
, the band is once again excitedly pointed towards the future. Bassist, songwriter and founding member Gilbert Amartey Amar, popularly known as
Chi-Kin-Chee
, talked to the label from Accra, Ghana where he is currently rehearsing Edikanfo and preparing for an upcoming European tour -- the group's first ever.
Other releases on GLITTERBEAT
Other releases by EDIKANFO