Various – Essiebons Special: Ghana Music Power House 1973-84 2LP

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After opening West Africas first record pressing plant in 1967, Essilfie-Bondzies Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous – for most of the 1970s – with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a whos-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob Roy Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the labels heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Inst- rumental masterpieces tracks from the labels mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.Sadly Essilfie-Bondzie passed away shortly before the compilation was finished. But his legacy lives on in the extraordinary music that he gave to the world in his lifetime.