Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats a Japanese city pop cover

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

A total of 10 songs is contained in the album

Make no mistake

the Horace Silver composition 'Doodlin'

Various - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 Artist_Tofubeats a Japanese city pop coverIn 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