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I heard this song for the first time yesterday at a Ghanaian Wedding Ceremony I was filming and I’m blown away by it. I can’t get it out of my head. Despite being of Jamaican origins and not being able to understand the words at all I’ve been taken by the rhythm and harmonies! Ghana 🇬🇭 you’ve impressed me! 💯
They really need some harmonious coordination in swerving those handkerchiefs and hand movements. Everyone is sloppily independent of each other. I’ve seen a sort of beautiful organized chaos in art, but this is certainly not one of those instances. Their voices aren’t great either,....just a random laid back laziness in the whole video, and no passion. Of course it’s understood the song is not a fiery rapid one,....but dang where is the spunk in it all.
Custodian of the Golden Stool I'm not sure if you're aware of some of the old influences found in this particular style of music. The guitar being played mirrors a genre of Palm wine music which comes from palm wine itself where people would come together and drink. Many of these guitarists would play and the message of the songs would be associated with for example sorrows, joy etc. And with the dancing, there is no specific routine... It's a mix of two: Adowa and Kete. It may be "sloppy" and unharmonious to you but there's a lot to be understood in background...maybe you could delve into it a little before posting such an insolent (while opinionated) comment
+Michaela Safoa It’s sloppy,...the spirit of poverty is all over these people in the video, it’s not solely in material wealth but you can tell colonialism drained the hell out of several parts of African cultures and the slave trades in a cyclical sense. You can revel in the fact that it is a reflection of something old but I think it’s an inferior watered down version of something old. Europeans and Arabs in West Africa boasted of much what they saw upon first contact with western Africa, then as the Atlantic Slave Trade and Trans-Saharan Trade commenced and continued Europeans wrote of in many ways how African societies had deteriorated in their rat race for change in a multiplicity of ways on all levels, and what their ancestors beheld could no longer be witnessed. I believe that was no doubt the case in African societies on all levels. In a the chase for 50 cents many of them lost their way,...their je ne sais quoi flair.
+Michaela Safoa Also, some archaeologists believe some artistic, linguistic, & cultural forms that were found in precolonial Africa have been preserved even better in it’s archaic form in New World than the African continent itself so far as the Yoruba liturgy utilized in Cuban Santeria and Brazilian Candomble, and other Africanisms found in the deep South in the USA, especially in South Carolina, Georgia, & Louisiana, and throughout the Caribbean and Afro-Latin portions of South America. Possibly due to the removal, being in a foreign land, the quest for preservation was taken less for granted. What baffles me Afro-descendants in the New World are renown for soulful sonorous singing with rhythm and coordination but I rarely see the same from West Africans whom we are very much related to. The playing of instruments wise I do, but beyond this not so. Among Central and Southern Africans I see this talent yet displayed, whom we are also related to.
eish Custodian you really fired, I was able to see the good in your comments and respect the fact that you take your culture seriously. Upon reading what you said and then checking with the audio and visual I could see how you perceived such. Culture and erosion goes hand in hand as the years continue to pass before us. Please, where can I follow you on social media or online? I like your content.
