KinkaDrum.org

Please click here for CD project overview.

Now available on CD Baby!

See below for CD background & more ordering information.

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kinka: traditional songs from avenorpedo is an audio recording produced in Ghana in 2007, initially released as a cassette tape for the Ghanaian market (2007), and now available as a richly annotated CD for the North American market (2010). Both feature the same recordings of traditional Ewe music from Ghana's Volta Region, especially Kinka songs of the celebrated Ewe composer Kwasi Norvor Afornorfe. The first cassette printing (1000 copies) sold out and a new one is in progress. The CD version also includes a 40 page ethnographic booklet, containing ethnographic background, a map, interviews, photographs, song lyrics and translations.

CDs are $15 each - all income goes to benefit local Ghanaian music and musicians - plus postage. Discounts available for ordering more than one.

This site, http://kinkadrum.org, is in progress - eventually it will document the Ewe Kinka Drum, supplementing the CD with audio, video, images, notations, lyrics, and more.

Click here for project overview.

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ORDERING

The quickest way to obtain a copy is to order from CD Baby!

Or, if you're located within the USA or Canada please send your mailing address plus a check or money order for $18 US or Canadian dollars (includes $3 postage) to:

Prof. Michael Frishkopf
Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
3-82 Fine Arts Building
Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2C9

If you're ordering from outside the US or Canada or for more information please email me: michael@kinkadrum.org

Thank you for your support!

This project was completed thanks to generous grants from the Presidents Fund (Department of Music) and the SAS Fund in the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.