{"id":41615,"date":"2019-07-02T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ebo-taylors-lost-album-to-be-released-40-years-later\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:04:01","slug":"ebo-taylors-lost-album-to-be-released-40-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ebo-taylors-lost-album-to-be-released-40-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebo Taylor&#8217;s lost album to be released 40 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27050 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE.jpg 999w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The tapes from&nbsp;<em>Palaver<\/em>,&nbsp;recorded in the&nbsp;80s in Nigeria by the Ghanaian highlife legend,&nbsp;were forgotten in a backroom of&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/tabansi-gold\/\">Tabansi Records<\/a>&#8216; studios<\/span>.<\/h4>\n<p>The now 83 years old electric highlife pionneer&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/ebo-taylor\/\">Ebo Taylor<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>will finally have his album&nbsp;<em>Palaver&nbsp;<\/em>released.<\/p>\n<p>Native of&nbsp;Cape Coast, Ghana, the musician had recorded it in a few days during a Nigerian tour, where he had met and signed a deal with Tabansi Records&#8217; head, Chief Tabansi. They had agreed to record and release five tracks for an album called&nbsp;<em>Palaver,&nbsp;<\/em>that would be released on Tabansi Records.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2260090658\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ebotaylor.bandcamp.com\/album\/palaver\">Palaver by Ebo Taylor<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, for an unknown reason, the album has never been released, and the tapes were forgotten&#8230; until now !&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/bbe-music\/\">BBE Music<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;is releasing it for the first time, with a mint mastering made from the original tapes, as a part of their&nbsp;<em>Tabansi Gold Series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Palaver<\/em>, out on September 13th on&nbsp;BBE Music. Pre-order it on&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/ebotaylor.bandcamp.com\/track\/palaver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read Next&nbsp;:&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-power-of-kwaito-music-in-conversation-with-sandy-b\/\">The power of kwaito music: In conversation with Sandy B<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27051\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ebo-Taylor-Palaver-Tabansi-BBE-Cover-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tapes from&nbsp;Palaver,&nbsp;recorded in the&nbsp;80s in Nigeria by the Ghanaian highlife legend,&nbsp;were forgotten in a backroom of&nbsp;Tabansi Records&#8216; studios. The now 83 years old electric highlife pionneer&nbsp;Ebo Taylor&nbsp;will finally have his album&nbsp;Palaver&nbsp;released. Native of&nbsp;Cape Coast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[40857,5309,5431],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,8403,8996,38133,22534,8414,8618,8402,8632,9558,20347,8400,8449],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41615"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41615"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}