Florence Adooni "Queen of Frafra Gospel" (Ghanaian highlife)

Have been rabbiting on about her on curmudgeon's rolling global thread, but thought I'd give her a thread of her own. She's been a member of various highlife bands including Alogte Oho's Sounds of Joy, but in the last few years has put out some (wonderful) singles of her own through the German Philophon label, has started playing some gigs around Europe and has a debut album due in early 2025. It's music that frankly just touches my heart, but also her and her band are starting to innovate a fair bit with the traditional highlife sound, incorparting some spiritual jazz sounds and on the new single some pretty nice acid sounds. Here are some examples...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZm-eM955sQ
Florence Adooni - Mam Pe'ela Su'ure (Live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU9M4Rz55CM
Florence Adooni - Fo Yelle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJzWzulIDo
Florence Adooni - Otoma da Naba <---- check out that 303(!)

Thanks for starting this thread - I've got nothing to add other than to say I've just listened through the six songs she has up on Spotify and this is great stuff!

Lovely stuff

Same as above posters, super happy to know that there's modern highlife being produced and this is very nice. It always felt like the best music genre - that has only produced a handful of international names. The genre name alone is the best.

a bit of live stuff from earlier this year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOsBFn-1Ks

Holy heck, first single off the album is fire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Z9ud9tFPw
'Vocalize My Love'

Album deets:

https://florenceadooni.bandcamp.com/album/a-o-e-i-u-an-ordinary-exercise-in-unity

Just listened to that four times on the bounce, late challenger for track of the year for me, so good!

super good.