“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).
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.
Download Paapa’s songs for free. Download Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège’s album ‘AFropolitan’ for free. Listen to Blitz the Ambassador. Like them on Facebook: BlitzAmbassador, soulfege, paapa.skillion. Follow on twitter @BlitzAmbassador, @ashong, @PaapaMusic
Check out the Links & Downloads page for more. Click here for the facebook album. Oh and if you haven’t seen, here’s the vid.
Paapa had all of Founders Great Hall dancing azonto to his “Dear Grace” remix. Blitz the Ambassador and the Embassy Ensemble seized the stage with killer sound and visuals. Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège kept the groovy vibes going til the wee hours. DJ Put On finished off the night with West African tunes. Word is GMGE was one of the best shows the school has seen this HaverGeneration. Click on over for PHOTOS…. and a blog post by GMGE photographer Jonathan Yu, HC ’12.
Blitz the Ambassador seized the stage (photo: Jonathan Yu)
The concert was Friday, March 23, but that wasn’t all. Blitz and Paapa discussed music, entrepreneurship, and changing technologies on a panel moderated by Haverford Anthropology Professor Jesse Shipley (director of ‘Living the HipLife‘) that Thursday evening in Haverford’s Sharpless Auditorium. They told stories of their own beginnings in the music industry (some more recent than others…) and weighed in on Ghanaian and African music in a global market. The panel was preceded by a screening of Blitz’s own ‘Native Sun‘ (watch it, 20 minutes, absolutely gorgeous) and Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi’s ‘HomeGrown: Hip Life in Ghana,’ which follows the number one HipLife music group V.I.P.
Paapa led an azonto craze (photo: Jonathan Yu)
Friday before the concert, DNA & Soulfège talked politics and poetics over pizza with Bryn Mawr’s 360° class, and at one point Derrick broke out in rap. The class had just returned from a spring break trip to Ghana, in fact a bit more recently than scheduled given a flight cancellation. Soulfège gave the group the 411 on the corporate structure of the music industry, and how their Million Download Campaign challenges the system and puts the power in the hands of the listeners and artists.
Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège kept the groove going (photo: Jonathan Yu)
If you weren’t there, sorry, cause you missed out!
Blitz's Embassy Ensemble (photo: Jonathan Yu)
Ameyaw Debrah, “the voice for exclusive entertainment news” in Ghana and beyond, gives love to GMGE with a headlining article on his official website, ameyawdebrah.com.
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