Veteran highlife artiste Rex Omar has bemoaned the quality of music produced onto the Ghanaian music market in recent times.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Doctor Cann on Happy FM\u2019s Showbiz Xtra, he said music producers of today are not concerned about doing quality music. They don\u2019t spend time and money to record timeless music.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not saying everybody should record live like I have done. You can do digital music and still have quality production but I can boldly say a lot of the digital productions being churned out of late are poor. They are disposable music. Their life time is short,\u201d he told Doctor Cann.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Abiba\u2019 hit maker also noted that there are a lot of Ghanaian rhythms that musicians and their producers can explore and utilise. He proposed that music is dynamic and that it is about time Ghanaians re-defined highlife to suit present time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to know that music like any form of culture changes. Things have changed about highlife. There can be other foreign rhythms but ones the typical highlife features are more, it still remains highlife. What I mean is that we should not be limited to only one type of chordal progression of highlife like \u2018Amponsah\u2019. That is someone\u2019s creation. We should open up to other Ghanaian rhythms and chords,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Rex added his voice to the controversy that surrounded Kofi Kinaata\u2019s \u2018Confession\u2019 when it was nominated in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n
When asked if Kofi Kinaata\u2019s \u2018Confession\u2019 was highlife, he explained that the fact that there are no strings in the song does not bar it from being a highlife song.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a typical highlife song. You see, you need not to have the guitar strings and the \u2018ka ka ka\u2019 to know it is highlife music. Nowadays, most producers use other musical instruments to play that rhythm other than the castanet ad that is creativity,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Rex Omar is currently the Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) and has produced a lot of great hits like \u2018Konka,\u2019 \u2018Obi Doba.\u2019 \u2018Who Am I,\u2019 \u2018Paapa,\u2019 and others.<\/p>\n
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By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Veteran highlife artiste Rex Omar has bemoaned the quality of music produced onto the Ghanaian music market in recent times. Speaking to Doctor Cann on Happy FM\u2019s Showbiz Xtra, he said music producers of today are not concerned about doing quality music. They don\u2019t spend time and money to record timeless music. \u201cI am not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[3705,6650],"yoast_head":"\n