{"id":40789,"date":"2020-03-19T19:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/glitterbeat-records-to-release-field-recording-album-of-ghanaian-band-fra-fra\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:32:34","slug":"glitterbeat-records-trio-fra-fra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/glitterbeat-records-trio-fra-fra\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitterbeat Records to release field recording album of Ghanaian band fra fra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glitter<\/strong>beat\u00a0has\u00a0announced a new album in its Hidden Musics series from the trio fra fra from Tamale (Ghana) recorded live by producer and\u00a0author\u00a0Ian Brennan.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The\u00a0versatile record label Glitterbeat has gone out to meet fra fra, a trio from Tamale in northern Ghana, named after the ethnic group living in this region. It was on the outskirts of the capital of the north of the country, on the dusty road in Tamale, Ghana, that Ian Brennan met the group. The leader’s name is Small, a man who celebrates his diminutive size rather than seeing it as a lack. He\u00a0plays\u00a0the two-string “Kologo guitar” with dog-tags fastened at the head as rattles. In addition to percussion, the fra fra play tiny flutes that they call “horns”, as they are made of this material.<\/p>\n