Código:
Artist : VA
Title : Living Is Hard (West African Music in Britain 1927-1929)
Genre : Ethnic
Year : 2008
Date : 05/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 23
Label : Honest Jons
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 72:14 min
Size : 92,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.oni johnson - garse yer fido 03:07
02.isaac jackson - nitsi koko ko ko 03:03
03.ben simmons - [blank] 03:30
04.harry e. quashie - anadwofa 03:00
05.ben simmons - mu kun sebor wa wu 02:59
06.douglas papafio - kuntum 02:55
07.prince zulamkah - ligiligi 03:14
08.the west african instrumental quintet 03:07
- adersu - no.2
09.the ga quartet - abowe dsane nmaka 03:18
tso
10.domingo justus - buje 03:18
11.ben simmons - obu kofi 03:02
12.james tucker - rue bai rue bai 02:59
13.john mugat - bukay 03:03
14.kumasi trio - asin asin part 2 03:02
15.douglas papafio - sakyi 03:16
16.james thomas - jon jo ko 03:12
17.nicholas de heer - edna buchaiku 03:05
18.george williams aingo - akuko nu 03:07
bonto
19.nicholas de heer - ewuri beka 03:20
20.george williams aingo - agur bi dzi 03:05
mensu aba
21.james brown - mukorin-mantun 03:06
22.nicholas de heer - wasiu dowu 03:08
23.john mugat - alahira 03:18
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72:14 min
This collection draws on EMI's Hayes Archive, a deposit
of recordings dating as far back as the nineteenth century.
Up until recently, the archive was mainly used by researchers
in the field of classical music, but Honest Jons have taken
on a more ethnographically concerned agenda, documenting
the specific indigenous musics of certain cultures - in this
case the music of West African music as documented in
the late 1920s, mainly by British residents and immigrants.
Of course, West Africa is a big place, so there's a variety of
different cultures and languages in use across this compilation,
with musical styles ranging from the qutie universal, pop-friendly
sounds of George Williams Aingo and his jaunty guitar playing,
to the far more folksy repetitions and chants of Domingo
Justus' 'Buje'. Perhaps an indicator of the sort of social
circumstances that greeted Afriacan immigrants in 1920s Britain,
The Ga Quartet seem to adapt their percussion arrangements
around whatever comes to hand, in this case it's what sounds
like the chinking of bottles accompanying an ensemble vocal
performance.
This release marks the opening of a proposed series of
publications based on material from the Hayes Archive, and if
the standards met by this first instalment are maintained, it'll be
something worth following very closely indeed.
Highly Recommended. 
Va - Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain 1927-1929 (2008)
