Cool Running: The Story of Ghana’s Honk Horn Lorries & Por Por Music
Audio CD
Klebo! Honk Horn music from Ghana (2009)
Features the La Drivers Union por por Group performing their songs.
DVDTwo Documentary Films on one DVD
Researched and produced in Accra, Ghana, 2005-2010
By Nii Yemo Nunu and Steven Feld
Film 1: Por Por He Sane/ The Story of Por Por, 60 minutes, 2013
Members of the La Drivers Union tell the history of their vehicles and the invention of Por Por music.
Film 2: M.V. Labadi, 20 minutes, 2013
The story of driver Ataa Anangbi Anangfio presented in family photographs by his son Nii Yemo Nunu.
Audio CD Credits:Compositions, Adaptations and Arrangements by Nii Tetteh Boye La, VoxLox, BMI
Sunshine in Africa (7:08)
A celebration of home, peace, justice and unity
OMANYE ➤ Good Tidings (9:35)
Let good tidings come, you must respect people!
TSƆƆM MI OSUƆMƆ ➤ Show Me Your Love (6:30)
Bad friendships destroy you and all who respect you!
NOVI DEKE ➤ No Sibling (Ewe Traditional) (7:08)
I have no sibling; I’m finished, I tell you!
AFIEE AFI ➤ Happy New Year (8:40)
We are wishing you a happy new year, be watchful!
MOKO DZƆLE ➤ Somebody’s Lover (7:04)
Nobody else’s lover compares with mine who loves me like sugar cane!
MIBI OO ➤ My Child (7:55)
Listen and be patient when your parents speak to you!
KLEBO! ➤ Uncle Ebo! (12:50)
Vigorously pulling their nets from the ocean, the Cape Coast fisherman shout: Hey! You spat into the soup; I will not eat it or I may die!
Nii Ashai Ollennu: Union Vice Chair and Group Leader, double por por, vocals
Nii Tetteh Boye La: Artistic Director, antenteben flute, lead vocals
Adjetey Sowah: gome bass drum, vocals, adawanu finger bell
Bawa Akrofi long: por por, vocals, adawanu finger bell
Daniel Nii Odoi Laryea: kpanlogo drums, vocals, adabranta double bell
Emmanuel Adjei, akasha gourd shaker, vocals, adawanu finger bell
Emmanuel Okpoti Kwaku: adabranta double bell, vocals
Esther Tsotso Mensah: por por, vocals, adawanu finger bell
Kotey Nikoi: por por, vocals, (lead vocal, 4), adabranta double bell
With guests:
Janet Angorkor Agoe: por por, vocals
Miriam Dzama Kpobi: por por, vocals
Emmanuel Adjetey Sowah: akasha shaker, vocals
DVD Credits:
Interviews and photographs
Nii Yemo Nunu
Video and Sound
Steven Feld
Editing
Jeremiah Ra Richards
Ga-English translation
Nii Yemo Nunu and Kwame Assenyoh
Paintings
Nicholas Wayo