• Free Youth – We Can Move
    • Free Youth – We Can Move (Drymbago 2019 Instrumental Version)
    • 1. We Can Move
    • 2. We Can Move (Drymbago 2019 Instrumental Version)

    Soundway reissue Free Youth’s long sought-after 1985 single “We Can Move” - one of the first known examples of Ghanaian hip hop, emerging at the dawn of ‘hip-life’ (hip hop meets highlife). It was the trio’s only release and originally pressed on 7” vinyl, but now comes fully restored, remastered and available for the first time on 12” vinyl along with the original cover art.

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