Footie fans will recognise the name Yeboah (especially, in Leeds) as the Ghanian international striker Tony who has his own Hi-Life Sensation!
No, this is Sam Yeboah with BBE's re-issue of his 1980s "Burger" / "Electric Higlife" (kinda the Hi-Life equivalent of reggae to dancehall).
BBE are no strangers to this kind of re-issue but this series came to light after DJ Jerry Frempong's wife found some records in the shed, Anthony Roberts-Frempong (who passed in 2011) having run Asona Records in the mid-80s to 90s.
Kicking off with 'Maame' bearing in mind this is around the time of Paul Simon's ' Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes' Afro-pop-rock and the Ghanian dispora of Hamburg / London and further afield. And looking at commercial success, lets have some Ghanian 'Marley' reggae with 'Mempa Aba' which is a winner.
'Daben Da' sounds out as it's sweet guitar and vocals evoke Ebo Taylor whilst 'Odo Mewu' is more urgent and pre-Afro-bruk and then 'Biribi Aye Me' sounds like "double" Burger to me.
With this album, BBE's catalogue no. has reached 750 and there's many more to come as 'Meba Fie - I'll Be Back Home' is the first in a series of re-issues of Asona recordings; if they're all as good as this, we'll have to make some room on the vinyl shelvs back home.
Artist: Sam Yeboah
Title: Meba Fie - I'll Be Back Home
Release date: 27th October, 2023
Label : BBE Music
Catalog Number : BBE750 LP / CD / Digital / Bandcamp
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