Vis-a-vis - Obi Agye Me Dofo (Ghana 1977)

An Uncle Roddus Album Review

African music month

 A classic Afrofunk album from 1977. This copy is a 1980 reissue with the first two tracks on side two different from the original release, apparently. The opening title track is a brilliant extended piece of Ghanaian funkiness that I have on the Ghana Special- Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 compilation. A real catchy number with plenty of great brass melody's and soloing and a real groovy rhythm.  "Kankyema Ntoaso Ne Awadee" stays in the same groovyness with a wonderful guitar break and again some cool jazzy sax work. "Me Mere Beba" is the first of the replacement tracks and is a tad more traditional sounding than the first two numbers but still an uptempo piece with another nice sax break. The next track is another goodie, keeping the quality of this album high, a short uptempo little afropop number and is followed by the most wonderful closing track which rhythmically is similar to the previous track but has vocals that I enjoy very much and has been etched into my subconscious from another compilation or mix I Have. Rating 4.5/5

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