The rough guide to West African Gold

World Music Network, 2008.

1 disque compact 1 livret

This album features music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s up to the early 1980s - a golden era in African music. With highlife guitars and horns, Guinean big-band music, early Senegalese mbalax with its tasty Latin influences and the funky Afro-beat sound that shakes the hippest dancefloors across the globe, this is the big beat of West Africa!

E.T. MENSAH: Ghana-Guinee-Mali GERALDO PINO & THE HEARTBEATS: Let Them Talk BEMBEYA JAZZ: Whiskey Soda DEXTER JOHNSON & THE INTERNATIONAL BAND FEAT. LABA SOSSEH: Manicero CELESTINE UKWU: Ife Si Na Chi BALLA ET SES BALLADINS: Moi Je Suis Décourage NO. 1 DE DAKAR FEAT. DOUDOU SOW: Geej HOROYA BAND: Were Were SUPER SWEET TALKS: The Lord’s Prayer SIR VICTOR UWAIFO & HIS MELODY MAESTROES: Ekassa No. 34/Igiodo-Giodo ERIC AGYEMAN: Abenaa Na Aden? ORCHESTRE RAIL BAND DE BAMAKO FEAT. SALIF KEITA: Mali Cèbalenw ORCHESTRE BAOBAB: Boulmamine