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It is of the Ghanaian highlife guitarist Koo Nimo talking, me  recording  Sloopy Mike Gyamfi’s  Adinkra highlife band in 1983 at my semi  open-air mud-built  4-track  Bokoor Recording Studio in Accra,  and then  a few seconds  of Smart Nkansah’s  Sunsum band playing at a club. This instagram  snippet come from a longer 50 minute  film  that is an episode on  Ghanaian popular music  called ‘Repercussions’ series made by  BBC Channel 4/Third Eye Production in 1983. The fuller version  can be  accessed through Ghana Music History Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTRerlj3UVg (Part 1 is also available on youtube)

All the best John Collins

Ps  incidentally, in 2018  Sloopy Mike Gyamfi became a paramount chief or  Omanhene in Ghana’s Eastern Region called Nana Nyarko-Yeboah III

Friday 14th 2020 went with Thomas and Becky to the New York University in Ghana program organised by it new Director Prof Frankie Edozien, honouring Kofi Ghanaba and launching the digitised version of his archives done 12 or so years ago by NYU . I spoke on a panel with Prof Kofi Anyidoho and and Prof Awam Amkpa. A copy of this archives was also formally handed over to the Univ of Ghana Institute of African Studies. Also I will also give a presentation on jazz at the Ghana Club on 5th March on jazz