Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa Nr. 33)
by Analog Africa
cherub420
cherub420
Amazing synthesizer & electric guitar jams that are pure in folk music essence, while really adhering to a rock n roll plus rock uptempo dub reggae vibe.
djpattycologne
djpattycologne
another allkillers-nofillers record.put it on and do not skip a tune.you`ll love all.fuzz,organ,drums...just the way I like it.thx 4 this
Favorite track: Say The Truth (Interlude 3).
psweets
psweets
I'm in love with this record. The variety of tones is astounding and so fresh. Great melodies too. Truly does feel like the future of music (see Analog Africa motto).
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about
Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was all ready for his 90th birthday party when the Covid pandemic hit. The legendary producer, businessman and founder of Ghana’s mighty Essiebons label had invited all his family and friends to the event and it was the disappointment at having to postpone that prompted Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb to propose a new compilation celebrating his contributions to the world of West African music.
For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who’s-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob ‘Roy’ Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.
Yet Essilfie-Bondzie had been destined for a very different career. Born in Apam and raised in Accra, he was sent to business school in London at the age of 20, and returned to the security of a government job in Ghana. But his passion for music, inspired by the sounds of Accra’s highlife scene, had never left him, and in 1967 he figured out a way of combining music and business by opening West Africa’s first record pressing plant.
The venture, a partnership with the Philips label, was a huge success, attracting business from all over the continent. By the early 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie had left his government job to concentrate on his labels, and by the mid-seventies he was on a hot streak injecting album after album of restless highlife into the bloodstream of the Ghanaian music scene.
Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the label’s heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Instrumental maszterpieces tracks from the label’s mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.
Sadly Essilfie-Bondzie passed away before the compilation was finished. But his legacy lives on in the extraordinary music that he gave to the world in his lifetime.
For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who’s-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob ‘Roy’ Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.
Yet Essilfie-Bondzie had been destined for a very different career. Born in Apam and raised in Accra, he was sent to business school in London at the age of 20, and returned to the security of a government job in Ghana. But his passion for music, inspired by the sounds of Accra’s highlife scene, had never left him, and in 1967 he figured out a way of combining music and business by opening West Africa’s first record pressing plant.
The venture, a partnership with the Philips label, was a huge success, attracting business from all over the continent. By the early 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie had left his government job to concentrate on his labels, and by the mid-seventies he was on a hot streak injecting album after album of restless highlife into the bloodstream of the Ghanaian music scene.
Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the label’s heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Instrumental maszterpieces tracks from the label’s mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.
Sadly Essilfie-Bondzie passed away before the compilation was finished. But his legacy lives on in the extraordinary music that he gave to the world in his lifetime.
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released December 3, 2021
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Kathrin Remest (Analog Africa)
MASTERING: Nick Robbins (Soundmastering)
LACQUERS: Frank Merritt (The Carvery)
INTERVIEWS AND BIOGRAPHY: Jesse Simon and Samy Ben Redjeb TEXT EDITING: Jesse Simon
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Craig and Nina Debrah, Alf Bremer, Ikon Afrik, Alexander Opoku-Agyemang, Eric Blankowv, Elia Christian Vargas, Stephanie Vollé, Christian Buksti, Martin Van Aalst and William Dorey aka Skinshape
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Kathrin Remest (Analog Africa)
MASTERING: Nick Robbins (Soundmastering)
LACQUERS: Frank Merritt (The Carvery)
INTERVIEWS AND BIOGRAPHY: Jesse Simon and Samy Ben Redjeb TEXT EDITING: Jesse Simon
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Craig and Nina Debrah, Alf Bremer, Ikon Afrik, Alexander Opoku-Agyemang, Eric Blankowv, Elia Christian Vargas, Stephanie Vollé, Christian Buksti, Martin Van Aalst and William Dorey aka Skinshape
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