Various Artists: Living Is Hard - VINYL LP

Various Artists: Living Is Hard - VINYL LPTitle: Living Is Hard Artist: Various Artists Label: Honest Jon's Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 4047179196918 Genre: International Release Date: 2018 11 16 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: 2 PACK 2018 repress. Honest Jon's Records has prepared a series drawing on some of the earliest recordings in the EMI Hayes Archive recovered from more than 150,000 78s staggering music from Iraq, Turkey, Caucasia, Lebanon, Iran (including sides made in Old

Title: Living Is Hard
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Honest Jon's
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4047179196918
Genre: International
Release Date: 2018-11-16
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK

2018 repress. Honest Jon's Records has prepared a series drawing on some of the earliest recordings in the EMI Hayes Archive - recovered from more than 150,000 78s - staggering music from Iraq, Turkey, Caucasia, Lebanon, Iran (including sides made in Old Street, London, in 1909), Egypt, and the Belgian Congo. This series opener presents the music of the West African underground of 1920s Britain, recorded at Hayes and released on the Zonophone label (which exported nearly all the records to West Africa). You can hear Caribbean influences here, the promise of highlife there, but Living Is Hard mostly disavows fusion and assimilation. And by contrast with antecedents in the history of black music in Britain - minstrelsy and spirituals, for example, ragtime and jazz - these recordings are unhitched from the protocols of a white listenership. These are startling, trenchant, elemental roots - carrying troubled news home, along with signs of the new African nationalism - and an enthralling glimpse of other lives, another time. Artists include: Oni Johnson, Isaac Jackson, Ben Simmons, Harry E. Quashie, Douglas Papafio, Prince Zulamkah, The West African Instrumental Quintet, The Ga Quartet, Domingo Justus, James Tucker, John Mugat, Kumasi Trio, James Thomas, Nicholas de Heer, George Williams Aingo and James Brown. Deluxe gatefold sleeve with large insert including Mark Ainley's liner notes plus photos, etc.

Tracks:
1.1 Garse Yer Fido - Johnson, O (1)
1.2 Nitsi Koko - Jackson, Isaac
1.3 Untitled - Simmons, Ben
1.4 Anadwofa - Quashie, Harry E
1.5 Mu Kun - Simmons, Ben
1.6 Kuntum - Papafio, Douglas
1.7 Ligiligi - Prince Zulamkah
1.8 Adersu - West African Instrumental Quintet
1.9 Abowe - Ga Quartet
1.10 Buje - Justus, Domingo
1.11 Obu Kofi - Simmons, Ben
1.12 Rue Bai Rue Bai - Tucker, James
1.13 Bukay - Mugat, John
1.14 Asin Asin - Kusami Trio
1.15 Sakyi - Papafio, Douglas
1.16 Jon Jo Ko - Thomas, James (2)
1.17 Edna Buchaiku - de Heer, Nicholas
1.18 Akuku Nu Bonto - Williams, George (3)
1.19 Ewuri Beka - de Heer, Nicholas
1.20 Mi Agur Bi - Aingo, George Williams
1.21 Mukorin Mantun - Aingo, George Williams
1.22 Wasiu Dowu - de Heer, Nicholas
1.23 Alahira - Mugat, John