RECORD COMPANIES DISTRIBUTING JOHN COLLINS/BOKOOR SOUNDS MUSIC
1) Otrabanda Records. VINTAGE PALMWINE (Acoustic ‘palmwine’ guitar highlife
cd from Bokoor Studio by Kwaa Mensah,T.O.Jazz. and Koo Nimo released 2003)
Scott Rollins,Donker Curtiusstraat 16-1
1051 JN Amsterdam,HOLLAND
tel 31-20-776-3992(h) 0233 799 7028
E-mail: srollins@zonnet.nl and www.otrabandarecords.com
2) Stern's Music Centre. GUITAR AND GUN (Highlife compilation cd from Bokoor Studio
released 2003. Re-issue of an album of same name released by UK Cherry Red Records in 198/4)
74 / 75 Warren Street, London W1T 5PF UK
www.sternsmusic.com
Contact Urbanus Robert
E-mail Address: robert@sternsmusic.com
Fax: 00 44 20 7388 2756. Phone: 00 44 20 7387 5550
Also contact Herman Trevor (Earthworks/Sterns)
E-mail: Trevor.Herman@btinternet.com
3) Naxos USA/Hong Kong. ELECTRIC HIGHLIFE (Highlife compilation cd from
Bokoor Studio released 2002)
Naxos World, 416 Mary Lindsay Polk Drive.
Suite 509,Franklin,Tenessee 37067-2681
www.naxosworld.com
4) Rough Guide Music. ROUGH GUIDE TO HIGHLIFE (Track 13 of cd, T.O.Jazz
‘Agyeman Baidoo’ recorded at Bokoor Studio. Released 2003)
Rough Guide World Music Network
6 Abbeville Mews, 88 Clapham Park Rd, London, SW4 7BX, UK
Contact Person Duncan Baker
Email: post@worldmusic.net
www.worldmusic.net
Tel 020 74985252 UK
5) Kona Records. AFRO ROCK. (Track 10 of cd. John Collins’s 1970’s Bokoor Band
Afro-beat song ‘Onukpa Shwarpo’ released 2002)
Contact Duncan Brooker
Email duncan78rpm@ol.com or sarahbolshi@mac.com
Tel UK 44 (0) 207713 8130 www.dmirecords.com
6 ) Arion S.A. Records. N’YONG ( Cd of acoustic highlifes and Dagari-fusion music by Local
Dimension Band run by John Collins/Aaron Bebe Sukura. Released in Paris Sept. 2003)
Manuela Ostrolenk (director) or Valentin Langlois,36 Avenue Hoche.75008 Paris, France
Tel 33 (0) 45637670 & Valentin Langlois T 33 (0) 145632200
Email info@arion-music.com
7) Hippo Records. ATONGO ZIMBA & SAVANNAH BREEZE (track 12 remix of John Collins 70’s Afrobeat Onukpa Shwarpo. Released 2005 )
Bentinckstraat 3hs, 1051 GC Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tel 0031 20-4867231.
Email:info@hipporecords.nl www.hipporecords.nl
8) Otrabanda Records. BOKOOR BEATS Compilation of 1970’s Bokoor Band songs and selection of 1980’s Bokoor Studio highlife and Afro-fusion releases – March 2007 Address: Scott Rollins, Otrabanda Records (as above) Also see i-tunes
13 TV PROGRAMS JOHN COLLINS HAS APPEARED IN AND/OR ACTED AS CONSULTANT FOR.)
1. ‘Repercussions’ (on Ghanaian popular music). BBC Channel 4/Third Eye Production, 50 minutes , 1983 (tape available PAL system)
2. ‘Rhythms of the World: Highlife in Ghana.’ Huschert Realfiln, Germany, 28 minutes, 1993, (tape available PAL system).
- ‘African Cross Rhythms’ (on the social context of music). Loki Films Denmark, 52 minutes, 1994 (tape available PAL system) . Re-released in the US 1996 as ‘Listen to the Silence’ New Jersey Films for the Humanities&Science
- ‘When The Moment Sings’ (on the philosophy behind African music). Visions TV, Norway, 32 minutes, 1995 (tape available PAL system) Obtainable from Nordic Film Insititute/Norsk Filminstitutt: (Tel 47 2247450). nfi@nfi.no. or kunder@nfi.no
- ‘Highlife Harvest’. Ghana TV3 program on the economics and state of the Ghanaian Music scene, 25 minutes, December 2000 Produced by Tim Muller and Josef Sizalo (tape available PAL system)
- ‘Africa Acoustic.’ Selected footage of John Collins’s Local Dimension Band 30 minutes, 2000, Aquarian Productions, Vince Beeton/ Bob Dawuni (tape available PAL system).
- ‘Art Music in Ghana’ Bavarian TV, Germany 52 minutes 1995 (tape available PAL system)
- 'Brass Unbound' (on brass-band music in Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana) ID TV, Holland, 1 hour 45 minutes. 1993 (tape available PAL system, edited down to 35 minutes - Ghana section)
- ‘Women’s Digest’ GTV program (interviews/music of T.O. Jazz, Professor Nketia, John Collins and the university based Local Dimension palmwine highlife band), 40 minutes, May 1999 (tapes available PAL system)
- John Collins lecture and John Collins/Koo Nimo highlife guitar performance at Harvard University made by ethnomusicologist Richard Wolfe, 7th February 2000 (tape available NTSC system)
- 'The Story of Highlife'. Ghana Television News film, GBC, 1994, 30 minutes (tape not available)
- ‘Highlife: From Yaa Amponsah to Telephone Lobi’ (story of burgher highlife musician Sloopy Mike Gyamfi) circa 30 mins. 1999 for Dutch NPS TV. Theo Uittenbogaard Prorduction, Amsterdam (available PAL system)
- Stage Shakers: Ghana’s Concert party Theatre, 2001. Director Kwame Braun (some of music recorded by J.Collins Bokoor Studio) Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianopolis http://iupress.indiana.edu
