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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley · 1975 · Plage la plus longue de l'album (6 min 49)

Context

Track from Simigwa, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley's first solo LP, released in 1975 on the Ghanaian label Essiebons and reissued by Strut in 2025. The record is regarded as a Ghanaian classic of highlife mixed with funk and soul.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.

By the same artist

• Kwaakwaa (1975)
• Akoko Ba (1975)
• This Hustling World (1975)
• Adwoa (1975)
• Fa No Dem Ara (1975)

Sources

• strut-records.co.uk

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