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Official Release Date: November 22, 2011


I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana is an album of sounds and performances recorded live in 2008 in the churches of Ghana's capital city. Produced by Calpin Hoffman-Williamson, this album could be seen as the missing link between American gospel records by artists like Rev. Johnny L. Jones and traditional African artists like those featured on Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM.

Amid Accra’s bustling sprawl of swirling dust and exhaust, are countless havens for homegrown musical expression: charismatic and spiritual Christian churches. There, distorted PA systems, anchored by female singers, and ramshackle guitars played by a rotating cast of local men weave in and out of popular melodies bringing congregations to their feet. Singers emote in repeated phrases, lifted by tambourines, claps, and percussion, to unite their voices in praise and worship. I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana takes listeners into these churches, where congregations join together to process the anxieties of their West African metropolis.

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This LP is scheduled to start shipping by the end of January.
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Entertainment Weekly:
John Fahey "Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years (1958-1965)"
Grade A: A rich exploration of Appalachian roots, Delta blues, and country, this isn't just a celebration of the grandfather of steel-string guitar fingerpicking, it's a history of American music. - Melissa Maerz

Pitchfork:
John Fahey "Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years (1958-1965)"
Best New Reissue, 9.5/10: This set is not just for Fahey zealots. It's for anyone interested in the story of American music, from its Appalachian string bands and mean-moaning Delta blues singers to the hymns sung from its church pews and the country-rock anthems soon enough crafted by its hippies... A must-have collection of lore, music, and history, it's a unified, brilliant, and often very challenging archive. - Grayson Currin

Boston Globe:
Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM
African music in its many splendors comes alive on this vibrant collection of recordings culled from old 78s and heard on CD for the first time. From secular to sacred, from the 1900s to the ’60s, the sheer breadth of material on four discs is astonishing.

New York Times:
Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM
A compilation not of a global mini-genre, but of a phenomenon — the 78 r.p.m. record market in the early and middle parts of the 20th century, which took on different shapes all across Africa, and which covered a host of styles, from traditional to religious to pop... It’s clear that there’s communication going on across borders, nations talking to one another through song. As it should be. - Jon Caramanica

All Songs Considered: What are you guys listening to these days? Anything you can't get enough of?
Jeff Tweedy: There's a two-CD collection, it comes as part of a book, called, I think I'm gonna get the title right i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces. It's on Dust-to-Digital records. It's just this incredible collection of photographs from the 1800s and early 1900s of musicians. And then the two CDs that come with it are recordings of 78s. Some of them are even archival, kind of retrievals of sound effects for movies. Like there's this one of wind from the '30s, just really an incredible collection.

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