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Music of Sunday, 18 April 2004

Source: ghanamusic.com

Golden Keys Band Launches Maiden Album

The Golden Keys Music Dance Band was at its best when it launched its maiden highlife music album at the Ghana Trade Fair Centre in Accra.

The album, dubbed Golden Keys Band album Volume One, has eight danceable tracks which will surely send every lover of good highlife to the dance hall.

Music lovers from all walks of life, including seasoned musicians like Papa Yaw Johnson and a host of others, attended the launch. The band?s performances during the launch made music fans stand on their feet dancing to the various tunes, to enjoy their style of performance, while the stage-craft also caught patrons, including music lovers in a web of uncontrollable excitement, putting some of them into fits of ecstasy.

The eight-track work clearly shows the bands love for good highlife rhythms, as it carefully stuck to real traditional highlife beats. The album has a mixture of pure traditional beats with good danceable ?kicks? and rhythms. The tunes are such that one needs to listen to all the lyrics carefully in order to appreciate the messages they carry.

The sound of the bass guitar, and drums in the background tell one that the Golden Keys Band will soon become a force to reckon with. You cannot listen to all the songs on the album, without shaking your head, if not taking the floor, to the danceable rhythms.

The songs have all the qualities to meet international standards, and one striking feature of the album is the near-perfect sound quality, and the moving instrumentation, programmed with a beautiful well-tuned chorus, as well as good dreambeats and lyrics to meet the demands of music lovers.

Some of the songs on the album include Bati O Bati, Skabadi, Bon Sava, Menu Meho, I Will be There, Nkyekyema, Coconut Water and Odo Kore Akyer.

The album recorded at Fiifi Bezaleel Digital Studio, and mastered at Black City Studio, ahs Mr Johnson Nyavor, alias Sikanne, as the executive producer.