Name: 1000 Can Die
Brand: King Ayisoba

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GBCD044

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Download code: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-03-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4030433604427

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

King Ayisoba 

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Glitterbeat

Ghana's ancient empire and the 21st century global express. The rhythms that created the past alongside the beats forging the present. In King Ayisoba, they all converge. Everything morphing into one. And on his new album, 1000 Can Die, they stand together, history and today, side by side. The tradition hewn from the future. "King Ayisoba and his band know that traditional instruments are stronger than anything modern," says album producer Zea (the Ex's Arnold de Boer). "Playing them is a gift from God. They'll take what they can use from electronica, from hiplife (the hugely popular Ghanaian style that fuses the local highlife music with hip-hop) but they won't let it beat them, because they know what they have is more powerful. Their music is pulled from the ground." The juxtaposition of the two on 1000 Can Die shows the irresistible drive of both sides. The thick, squelching bass and beats that push under the older rhythms of "Anka Yen Tu Kwai" are overtaken by the guluku and dundun drums that bring in "Yalma Dage Wanga," its rapid-fire melody dictated by Ayisoba's voice and two-string kologo lute. The title cut features Ghanaian rapper/producer M3nsa alongside the shape shifting vision of legendary reggae producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

1000 Can Die

Music GB