Panji’s Ghana Music Exploration

What do Reggie Rockstone and King Ayisoba have in common? Well they are both Ghanaian Musicians whose careers got off and running under the management of recording engineer and producer, Panji Anoff.

The musicians were part of a multimedia presentation put together by Anoff at the Du Bois Centre in Accra last Saturday, February 24 to explore the history of Ghana through music.

Apart from Rockstone and Ayisoba, the live music component to of the programme dubbed “African Sounds and Visions” included inputs from seprewa expert Osei Korankye, Dela Botri's Hewale Sounds, a highlife big band, singer Nat Buckle, saxophonist Ray Allen.

The music was complemented with recorded speeches, projected from the Willis Bell collection and dramatic pieces by Abena Takyi.

Anoff was born exactly a year after the overthrow of Nkrumah but he has grown to appreciate Osagyefo's Pan Africanist ideas.

The broad aim of the programme was therefore to provide entertainment and fuel for reflection on Ghana and Africa's progress over the last 50 years.

“We achieved a lot under Nkrumah not only for this country but for Africa as a whole. Admittedly, the momentum to achieve certain things disappeared after his overthrow but some of the values he stood for are relevant even how. We can revisit them as we plot new visions for the tasks ahead.”

According to Anoff, the different stands of the presentation have all been tailored to fit into a thrilling and very educative two-hour programme to be filled for broadcast later on television.

Source: myjoyonline.com