“Dear Grace” video is now live! Watch, re-live, experience GMGE. See the AZONTO REMIX that had Haverford College dancing up a storm in Founders Great Hall. Check Paapa’s own azonto around 5:00.
Like the tune? Download the original “Dear Grace” free.
What’s azonto? Read this article from Dust, one of the hottest and most creative magazines coming out of Accra, Ghana.
ACCRA [dot] ALT, Ghana’s hottest arts network, gave loooove to GMGE. Check out the article and photo series (reblogged below).
Some of the dopest in Ghanaian music traveled to the quiet suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, USA for the symposium, GMGE: Ghanaian Music//Global Entrepreneurship, at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges this past March. Blitz the Ambassador, Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège, and Paapa participated in a concert, screening, and panel series, exploring how they as artists have harnessed the capacity of new media and digital technology to create a global movement through music.
Paapa, a fresh young artist signed to Skillions Records and student at Reed College in Oregon, had the school dancing azonto to his “Dear Grace” remix at the concert March 23. Blitz the Ambassador, one of the greatest Ghanaian artists in hip hop, seized the stage with killer sounds and visuals with his band, the Embassy Ensemble. Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège, artists + activists behind the hit song “
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Music video is ready! Blitz & the Embassy Ensemble in a shudderingly awesome performance of “Breathe.” Check it check it…..to be reminded of just how amazing GMGE was. Wait a bit for the sound to come on full force.
The Philly Tribune gave GMGE a glowing review in this article by Louis Bolling. 991 reads as of April 17, what what? Check it out!
We were on their homepage and all (bottom of photo column).
Watch the videos. youtube.com/gmge323
This is Robin’s iPhone low-qual inside look footage, half of ‘em from sound check…check back in two months for the professional quality film, headed by a team of the top bi-co filmmakers. Oh, and if you want to get involved in that project, email gmge323@gmail.com. No experience necessary.
