BLACK STARS & COLORES TROPICALES

Dutty Artz t-shirts are now available in tropical colors!

plus, a piece I wrote on the Black Stars compilation (of new music from Ghana) is in the current issue of Frieze magazine.

click on the thumbnail below to see a scan.

posted by jace on June 6, 2008. you can subscribe to this post's comments via rss 2.0.

Nate:
June 6, 2008
Yeah dude, I just got than comp in the mail yesterday. Great Stuff! I had no idea what was going on in Ghana with the whole highlife/hiplife scene. thanks
carlos:
June 6, 2008
nice review! for me personally this was a fantastic buy, and i gotta say, to the folks that checked out and dug the track upped here recently, there’s pleeeeennnnty more heat where that came from!
Matt Shadetek:
June 7, 2008
yeah, really great cd, I’ve been enjoying as well.
Zea:
June 18, 2008
It’s a great compilation. A couple of years ago my sister brought me a CDR with many hiplife hits (she was living in Ghana then). And it also included this song from Obour, who is not on th Black Stars comp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhaKanM9vmQ

there will soon be stuff on his website too:
http://www.obour.com

King Ayisoba (first song on the CD) is recording with producers but also plays on the beach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73EmECuV4c

mudd up!