Daniel Nana Aforo, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Accra, Ghana
A dynamic partially blind artist Boateng Koduah Acheampong has bemoaned over the inability of African musicians to perform with indigenous instruments which has affected live band performances.
He has therefore advised his colleague African musician rely on the indigenous instruments rather than digital.
“Those who rely on digital need not to be condemned. Perhaps they never thought African musical instruments can also play like the keyboard, acoustic drums and others”, said Boateng.
He said the only thing Africa could do was to improve upon the sound to increase the dynamics of the local instruments and said most African great artists like Salif Keita, Ephraim Amo,Agya Koo Nimo, Hugh Masakela and others who greatly used local African instruments which have been accepted both home and abroad.
According to the artist local instruments could play all the skills needed in music especially the pentatonic, dittonist and all the acromatists that are found in musical instruments, and the only thing are to organize them and perform together as the Western World has done. This was exclusively said in an interview withy Voice of Africa in Accra.
Boateng Konduah is a leader of a Band known as Gonje, a Hausa word literally mean “to pull”and have 8 members. He urged his Ghanaian counterparts to use the dondo, fonfonfrom, xylophones, attumpan and all the other local instruments to sell their message across.
Boateng Konduah advised the youth to learn the local instruments at their locality and play music with instead of relying on the exotic instruments. Asked which country the band would like to perform he emphatically said Europe rather than America since the market from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden are far better to sell. According to him they are the only local band in Ghana that plays circular music with A
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