Sakuntu wrote:Great thread! If I can add a bit of history from the book Highlife Time by John Collins....Kpanlogo is a "neo traditional" social music and dancestyle of the Ga People of Ghana . It is said to be invented in 1963 by a man named Otoo Lincoln. The name Kpanlogo was that of a young girl in a Ananse folk tale. Its the rhythms and dance are a combination of Highlife(Pop music), Kolomashie (street processional music), Oge (a Liberian based music drum style) and Rock n Roll (i.e. the Twist). In 1964, the Kpanlogo was banned by the elders of the Arts council of Ghana becuase the dance was considered to "sexual" due to its hip movements. It was later redeemed after a public showing to the Arts Council.
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Tone wrote:Hey Pavlo,
Do you remember the name of those balls held together by a string, that make a shaker sound and a tac! sound when you hold and release one of the ball against the other. I still play this stuff, a great party pleaser. They are a lot of fun and generate a wicked groove.
Tone wrote:I remember in Ghana how every saturday in every town, all over the country, people would have those big funeral or rather a post celebration of death. Big open air party, everybody dressed up and this wicked music played over a distorting sound system. With the bass being played on a box with metal blades. (don't know the name either).
Tone wrote:I didn't understand the difference between the slap and the conga slap. From what I remember it looked a lot like a cupped and side ways slap which reminded me of the traditional Cuban slap (unlike the flatter modern Giovanni type slap).
Do you remember the name of those balls held together by a string, that make a shaker sound and a tac! sound when you hold and release one of the ball against the other. I still play this stuff, a great party pleaser. They are a lot of fun and generate a wicked groove.
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