The Divine Drummer

Artist: Guy Warren
Label: Retroafric
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 740042991620
EAN: 0740042991620
ASIN: B000067VNQ

Release Date: 2002-06-11

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Tracks:

One World
An Uprising Somewhere In Africa
Freedom Dance
I'm Going To Kiss My Chickadee's Neck
African Jazz Dance No.2
African Jazz Dance No.6 (Drums Of Northern Ghana)
Ugandan Flute And Drums
One Step African Ragtime
Self Portrait 1969
Keep Cool You Fool (Don't Lose Your Cool)
Floating Rhythms
Flute And Voice Duet
Indigo Turning Black Blues
Space Music For Piano
Gye Nyame (Unless God)

Customer Reviews:

Interesting Document- Rerelease.......2002-12-04

The man who preceeded Babtunde Olatunji in introducing America to African drumming! A rerelease of a 30+ year old album. It's still fresh & interesting with skillful & creative use of donno, atumpan, kpanlogo/conga and fontomfrom. Warren (now called Ghanaba) uses a mix of African drums (from the Ashanti, Dogomba, and Ga peoples of Ghana) arranged & played like a jazz drumset. He incorporates bastardized African rhythms in the context of African-esque and dated Western-sounding song forms. About 1/2 of the album is of great interest (inspring subsequent listenings) & 1/2 is trite. A lovely document of a jazz pioneer that is too often forgotten. Hopefully they'll release Ghanaba's earlier & more recent albums as well!

Alice Coltrane, watch out..........2002-07-24

These kooky, free-jazz/world beat percussive explorations probably are not for everyone, but they are kinda weird and unique. Ghanaian drummer Guy Warren (aka Kofi Ghanaba) is one of the more elusive figures in the jazz world, as well as the African pop scene. He did a lot of work with a lot of great African bands in the '40s and '50s, founding the Tempos band that later made E.T. Mensah famous, and later got into the hard bop and free jazz scenes of the 1960s, gigging with some of the greats of the style. Then he kinda wigged out and got super-experimental, as these 1969-70 sessions amply demonstrate. It's weird stuff, Max Roach meets the rainforest, recorded with minimal instrumentation and a trance-y overall vibe, though also fairly artsy and irritating, in a way that might be familiar to folks who have heard Alice Coltrane or Pharoah Sanders.

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