Paa Kow is a drummer from Ghana. (At first i read it as KaaPow.) He grew up beating on cans in the street until he finally convinced his elders that he was good enough to be in a band. He played with George Darko among others and toured Europe, establishing himself as a talented percussionist in the traditional highlife mode. After ten weeks in residence at the University of Colorado he put together this album with a horn quintet called By All Means (saxes, tuba, trumpets, trombone). The drum kit is to the fore with occasional bursts of melody. The liner notes are too small to read, even with a magnifying glass, but I think this was recorded in Colorado and overdubbed in Accra, Ghana. Apart from the overemphasis on drum solos there is a pleasant familiar highlife groove to many of the tracks but no real lyric focus, the emphasis instead being on bringing the funk. There's some fine alto sax on "I made a mistake." A live feel permeates the recording, and the various members of the group, guitar, organ and horns get to stretch out.