Ghia - This IsFormat : LP Label : The Outer Edge Catalog # : TAC 015 Genre : Pop Jazz Funk Let's get it straight: "This is" is THE album by Ghia. It catches the band at its peak and features 10 songs, including not only their impeccable hit, "What's Your Voodoo?" but a full arsenal of yet unheard, timeless, and soulful music without equal. The songs on the album, which were recorded between 1988 and 1991, could be considered forerunners of the downtempo genre, with

and from the rubbery hustle underpinning Mystic Djim’s ‘Yaoundé Girls’ to the luminous liquid disco lines which propel Pasteur Lappé’s ‘Sekele Movement’

Congolese Funk

2023 repress

Amongst the curios

brash new form of pop music born out of ashes of late 1970s disco and funk and

The title track Trasforma and the closing track Aperture are characterized by luminous piano melodies

Blending the emotional with the elemental

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Label : Alleviated

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‘Green-Yellow Field’ chimes in as the first of two solo oriented zither recordings twinned with the dreamlike title track ‘Sun Arcs’

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