Deface The Currency 7872328 Ghanaian highlife guitar legend Ebo

Ghanaian highlife guitar legend Ebo Taylor teams up again with Strut for a long overdue definitive compilation of his seminal 1970s recordings

Laymon Jackson on bass

and one most critics passed by

Featuring the Ellington band with Jimmy Jones on piano and Billy Strayhorn as bandleader and arranger

Koralle invites some of his favourite artists and musical peers to collaborate and exchange sounds and ideas

Deface The Currency 7872328 Ghanaian highlife guitar legend EboThe Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis return with Deface the Currency, their second collaboration and a striking leap forward in intensity, scale and ambition. Recorded straight after a European tour, the album captures a group transformed by constant motion, with engineer Don Godwin bottling the impact of a band sharpened by relentless live performance. The music is expansive and volatile, built from tightly locked melodic lines, sudden ruptures