{"id":88930,"date":"2021-10-05T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/best-of-vis-a-vis-in-congo-style\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:59:30","slug":"best-of-vis-a-vis-in-congo-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/best-of-vis-a-vis-in-congo-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style: when highlife combined with Congolese rumba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies is reissuing a 1976 album from legendary Ghanaian band Vis-A-Vis.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians in Ghana, <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/vis-a-vis-obi-agye-me-dofo\/\">Vis-A-Vis<\/a> released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982. Led by vocalist Isaac \u201cSuperstar\u201d Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson \u201cShaolin Kung-Fu\u201d Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis helped propel K. Frimpong to fame, one of Ghana\u2019s most popular stars in the 1970s. Today, Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies announces the reissue of the sought after 1976 album, <em>Best of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style<\/em>. The record fuses Ghanaian highlife with Congolese rumba, which gained popularity throughout Africa during the 1960s and 70s. It will be re-issued alongside another Vis-A-Vis highlife album from 1977, <em>Do Wo Ho Ni<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3706887579\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wearebusybodies.bandcamp.com\/album\/vis-a-vis-the-best-of-vis-a-vis-in-congo-style\">Vis-A-Vis &#8211; The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style by We Are Busy Bodies<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lead single, \u201cCherie Bondowe,\u201d is typical of the album\u2019s up-tempo rumba party style. The track had been a hit for the Congolese guitarist and singer-songwriter Freddy \u2018Mayaula\u2019 Mayoni and was recorded in collaboration with Ok Jazz, one of The Congo\u2019s most successful rumba bands, led by Franco. One of the musical innovations of Franco&#8217;s band was the mi-solo (meaning &#8220;half solo&#8221;) guitarist, who played arpeggio patterns and filled a role between the lead and rhythm guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wearebusybodies.bandcamp.com\/album\/vis-a-vis-the-best-of-vis-a-vis-in-congo-style\" target=\"_blank\">Best of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style<\/a><\/em>, out on December 10 via We Are Busy Bodies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vis-A-Vis-In-Congo-Style-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88883\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies is reissuing a 1976 album from legendary Ghanaian band Vis-A-Vis.&nbsp; As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians in Ghana, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":88888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[26712,35581],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[19557,8501,13097,19556,19555],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88930"}],"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=88930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88930"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=88930"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=88930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}