Mr Cee - Nye Wonko (2023) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Mr Cee
- Title: Nye Wonko
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: BBE Africa
- Genre: folk, world, highlife, funk
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 30 min
- Total Size: 71; 200; 355 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
In the 80s west African music scene, it was often the way that a talented musician, composer or singer would labour away at a series of obscure, under-financed, poorly engineered recording projects before hitting gold. Such seems to have been the narrative with the comparatively unknown but very talented songwriter/vocalist Charles Kwadwo Kwarteng: Mr Cee.
Shortly before (or after- the dates aren’t clear) this excellent Ansona recording, Charles had released a self-produced ‘digital highlife’ album Kaba. To be absolutely candid, it had very little going for it: whilst Charles’ songs and lyrics were good, the tinny digital-only backing tracks didn’t really do the music any favours.
Although still a sought-after album among digital music collectors, Kaba simply doesn’t have one-tenth of the force, creativity, and sheer engineering and musicianship excitement that Nye Wonko demonstrates in spades. In many respects this is a ‘classical’ highlife album in terms of style and performance, but blessed with a modern production and funky savoir- faire to place it fairly and squarely within the realms of the very best that burger highlife has to offer.
This solidly engineered Ghana Films Studios production (who, according to popular opinion, had the best set-up by far at the time in Ghana) boasts an 11-piece studio band playing ‘real’ instruments, as well as a four-voice choir including the phenomenal Lady Talata, herself a prominent and prolific solo recording artist throughout ghana, Nigeria and benin at the time.
On tenor sax we have Sammy Lartey ( Bongos Ikwue, Alex Konadu, Kyeremateng Stars Band and countless other high-profile sessions such as with Sidiku Buari’s band – see BBE’s reissue of Buari’s sought-after classic Feelings to hear more of this great tenor man, as well his contributions to the Jewel Ackah and Eric Agyemang Asona reissues in this series); on keyboards Pat Erskine (Pat Thomas, Jewel Ackah again, Pozo Hayes and many other top bands); Paa Akrashie on trumpet (Ebo Taylor, Alex Konadu, Edikanfo, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley); Kwaku ‘Lawyer’ Boateng on drums (African Brothers Band International, Nana Ampadu).
And that’s just for starters. With such a star-studded orchestra, it’d be almost impossible to go wrong- and in fact, everything goes right. It’s the perfect example of ‘Old School meets New School’. Every track’s a winner.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Mr Cee - Nye Wonko (6:15)
1.02 - Mr Cee - Gye Wani (4:39)
1.03 - Mr Cee - Bribiara Wone Mmre (4:30)
1.04 - Mr Cee - Naana (4:39)
1.05 - Mr Cee - Joyce (5:41)
1.06 - Mr Cee - Yeda Mo Ase (4:40)
Shortly before (or after- the dates aren’t clear) this excellent Ansona recording, Charles had released a self-produced ‘digital highlife’ album Kaba. To be absolutely candid, it had very little going for it: whilst Charles’ songs and lyrics were good, the tinny digital-only backing tracks didn’t really do the music any favours.
Although still a sought-after album among digital music collectors, Kaba simply doesn’t have one-tenth of the force, creativity, and sheer engineering and musicianship excitement that Nye Wonko demonstrates in spades. In many respects this is a ‘classical’ highlife album in terms of style and performance, but blessed with a modern production and funky savoir- faire to place it fairly and squarely within the realms of the very best that burger highlife has to offer.
This solidly engineered Ghana Films Studios production (who, according to popular opinion, had the best set-up by far at the time in Ghana) boasts an 11-piece studio band playing ‘real’ instruments, as well as a four-voice choir including the phenomenal Lady Talata, herself a prominent and prolific solo recording artist throughout ghana, Nigeria and benin at the time.
On tenor sax we have Sammy Lartey ( Bongos Ikwue, Alex Konadu, Kyeremateng Stars Band and countless other high-profile sessions such as with Sidiku Buari’s band – see BBE’s reissue of Buari’s sought-after classic Feelings to hear more of this great tenor man, as well his contributions to the Jewel Ackah and Eric Agyemang Asona reissues in this series); on keyboards Pat Erskine (Pat Thomas, Jewel Ackah again, Pozo Hayes and many other top bands); Paa Akrashie on trumpet (Ebo Taylor, Alex Konadu, Edikanfo, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley); Kwaku ‘Lawyer’ Boateng on drums (African Brothers Band International, Nana Ampadu).
And that’s just for starters. With such a star-studded orchestra, it’d be almost impossible to go wrong- and in fact, everything goes right. It’s the perfect example of ‘Old School meets New School’. Every track’s a winner.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Mr Cee - Nye Wonko (6:15)
1.02 - Mr Cee - Gye Wani (4:39)
1.03 - Mr Cee - Bribiara Wone Mmre (4:30)
1.04 - Mr Cee - Naana (4:39)
1.05 - Mr Cee - Joyce (5:41)
1.06 - Mr Cee - Yeda Mo Ase (4:40)
Year 2023 | Funk | World | Folk | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl
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