Ghanaian trumpeter Peter Somuah presents Highlife: a unique and groovy sound with soulful melody lines and a strong emphasis on rhythm.

The Highlife album is an ode to the Ghanaian tradition of highlife music,
and features legends of the genre. Highlife has a unique sound with a
distinctive finger-picking style of guitar-playing, minimalistic yet groovy bass
lines, percussive keyboard patterns, soulful melody lines from the brass
section, and much emphasis on rhythm. The opening song of the album,
We Give Thanks, features Pat Thomas, also known as ‘the Golden Voice
of Africa’. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the first musician worldwide to incorporate
rap into highlife music, appears on Chop Chop. And 93-year old Koo
Nimo, a leading highlife musician, and the first Ghanaian to have their
music put on a CD, narrates some of the origins of the highlife genre.
On the ten-track album Peter Somuah, who grew up playing