K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

K. Frimpong may be one of Ghana’s biggest highlife musicians, but within seconds listening to the bristling horn lines, twisting synths, distorted guitar, and funky rhythms of “Aboagyewaa” you know this is something else. The song’s 11 minutes are full of subtle changes, not least when K. Frimpong’s tenor voice makes an entrance a few minutes in, floating atop its hypnotic, winding groove. “Ohene A Oda Apakan Mu” goes back to a more traditional highlife sound, with those characteristic horn interjections and rhythmic guitar, while “Abrabo” has a Congolese lilt to it — Vis-a-Vis, who back Frimpong on this record (throughout the 70s he played regularly with them and his other band, the Cubano Fiestas) even made a whole album of Congolese rumba, which in the 1970s was a huge influence on musicians all over Africa. A defining Afro-funk record.