K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - The Black Album (2025 Reissue) Isobel Campbell Jorja Smith)

Jorja Smith)

The performances are tight but still full of the raw unpredictability that defined their early years

Featuring the singles

Led by one of the great guitarists

at Riviera ’76 on the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet

K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - The Black Album (2025 Reissue) Isobel Campbell Jorja Smith)'The Black Album' expands the electronic elements and features the equally visionary 'Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena',although the real gem is hiding on the B side: the extended groove of Adam Nana. Sinuously evolving guitar lines,clavinet vamps, harmonised vocal snatches and otherworldly percussion expand and contract over a full quarter of an hour a Ghanaian riposte to the Afro Jazz experiments going on at the same time on the other side of the Atlantic.