As I've been learning more about African music, one website that has helped me in this journey has been Voodoo Funk, home to one of the original people to travel to Africa to do some crate digging.
From the site has come this re-release of songs by The Psychedelic Aliens
, a Ghanaian Afro-rock group that released three EPs between 1968 and 1971. The disc is a short 24 minutes in length, comprised of eight tracks, but it is a pretty upbeat, swinging collection of music. As bandleader Carl Ricky Telfer recalls in the liner notes he wrote, "The Aliens was the first Ghanaian band to merge Western rock, pop and soul music with African rhythms and paved the way for other bands to follow."This album, packaged bizarrely with a book and strange, chunky black cd-holder, is an essential step in understanding African music.
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