Ebo Taylor
Love and Death
strut link up with one of the true greats of ghanaian music ebo taylor for his first internationally released new studio album in over 20 years interest in ebo taylor's music has grown in recent years with a series of ghanaian compilations on soundway records and analog africa and an unexpected sample as usher lifted a riff from 'heaven' for his hit with ludacris 'she don't know' a new ebo taylor album was a natural progression 'for new album i wanted to advance the cause of afrobeat music fela started it and we shouldn't just abandon it we should push it so it is a standard form of music' the result is a firing new set backed by dutch band afrobeat academy and involves members of german analogue funk combo poets of rhythm tracks include new versions of taylor classics 'victory' and 'love and death' and a selection of new compositions including 'kwame' celebrating ghana's late lamented leader kwame nkrumah