Ammasu – More Singing
Ammasu Akapoma Group
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“On this album you will find more singing in sorrow and happiness and children’s music”
Extra material from the musical portrait of the Village of Ammasu
Musical portrait of the Village of Ammasu in the Brong-Ahafu region of Ghana with a 28 page booklet with texts and pictures.
Extra material from the musical portrait of the Village of Ammasu in the Brong-Ahafu region of Ghana with a 28 page booklet with texts and pictures. The Ammasu Akapoma Band is the hottest funeral band in the region.
On this release you will find three more Aweso numbers, another Funeral Dirge by Amma Kyerenmaa, more relaxed love singing, one more children’s song and a Brass Band medley.
All from the village of Ammasu near Dormaa in Brong-Ahafu region of Ghana.
Texts and photos will also be put up on the Country & Eastern site showing the making of the Atumpan drums, portraits and life in the village.
Here is the album booklet and Prudence’s story about Ammasu:
“Ammasu – an anthropological narrative” by Prudence Woodford-Berger
Some good news as we enter 2023!
This is Amma Kyerenmaa
She sings You Are So Brave, a funeral dirge on The Music of Ammasu album. During 2022 Country & Eastern joined Tracklib a site for legal download and licensing of music that sees to it that money will reach the original creators. During the summer of 2022 Brockhampton, a group from Texas with more than five million listeners per month used two seconds from Amma Kyerenmaas’ singing and offered a handsome sum of money in advance for use in the song Southside. My family did spend a long time in the mid seventies in this rather poor village in the cocoa district of the Brong-Ahafu region learning a lot from the generous people of Ammsu and later I was happy to release some of their great music. So you can imagine the satisfaction and happiness it gives me that a couple of weeks into 2023 (a year we all fear will carry a lot of bad news), the Swedish drummer and traditional Ewe priestess Kristina Aspeqvist will travel to Ammasu to hand over quite a lot of money to the Ammasu village and the Ammasu Akapoma Band.
Tracks
1 Aweso 2
2 Recreational Singing
3 Aweso 3
4 Funeral Dirge
5 Children’s Cantata
6 Aweso 4
7 Brass Band Medley
Musicians
The Ammasu Akapoma Group featuring Ahenkaan, Kwame Yeboah, Kofi Boanu et al
Children of Ammasu
The local Brass Band
More info
There are four albums in all from Ammasu:
Apart from The Music of Ammasu (ce07) with a broad portrait of music in the village, three more mp3-only albums from Ammasu have been released:
cex06 The Music of Ammasu – more drumming
cex07 The Music of Ammasu – more singing
cex08 The Music of Ammasu – analytical drumming
Download the CE07 booklet as pdf.
If you print a physical from your download, here is a pocket for the cd.
Reviews from Songlines and The Wire
Some Ammasu photos
