Album Notes

Note: For these recordings there were only a limited number of CDs created. They were made to be sold at the performance by Koo & Vishal at the 1999 WOMAD Festival in Marymore, WA, USA. Most of the discs were sold, and less than fifteen CDs remain; thus these CDs are collectors items and are priced accordingly. If you love the music buy the mp3s; if you love the music and want a collectors memento buy the CD. Below is information about the songs on the disc.

1. "Aguado": An adaptation of a Spanish classical guitar etude to fit an Ewe children's song set to the Agbacha rhythm.

2. "It Takes So Much Energy to Hate": An odonson style song by Koo Nimo in which he praises all people, Africans, and Europeans who have helped to preserve the cultural treasure of proverbs in the Twi language.

3. "Mohammadu/ Odo Yewu": A medley combining a sufi muslim devotional song in Hausa/Arabic, and a love song in Twi "Odo Yewu (To Love Is to Die)."

4. "I've Worked in Vain": An odonson style song about the establishment of intestate law in Ghana. The establishment of intestate law made certain that wives would inherit upon their husband's death even if there was no will. "I've Worked in Vain," refers to the state of affairs before intestate law was established, where it was possible for wives to inherit nothing at all upon the death of their husband. The song title refers to wives singing laments about this state of affairs.

5. "Christ Ne Ndaase Ne Owu": A Christian devotional song in Highllife style.