About Scratch Magazine
The ultimate music magazine is designed to publicize and attempt to address by bringing to the fore, the specific needs of the Ghanaian music industry. Published by SCRATCH PUBLICATIONS, it aims at becoming a trailblazer in championing the cause of umbrella bodies, associations and groups within the Ghanaian music industry such as COSGA and MUSIGA. SCRATCH will, in each Ch
apter, select a traditional and/or foreign musical instrument, a local upcoming artiste, an international artiste, local and foreign groups, to be profiled. Also to be highlighted are the different genres of music; existing, imported and evolving, and how they were started or adapted to fit different cultures and traditions specifically Syncos Music developed by Scratch Studios label. SCRATCH will also be official media partner of the DREAM! CHILD FOUNDATION, which will power the “DREAM! TRAIN”; a series of concerts and outreach projects that will be held in various towns around Ghana. The series of concerts are to ensure that “DREAM! TRAIN”, an embedded marketing opportunity for corporate bodies and individuals alike, reaches as many people as possible from the lower, middle and upper segments of society. SCRATCH will be targeted at the middle to upper classes of society, and will therefore present itself as a unique platform for distributors, retailers and evenhese to an up-market captive readership. manufacturers of goods and services to showcase. Ghana’s Music landscape is in the throes of a renaissance, and many interesting developments are surfacing. Of immense significance is the emergence of Scratch Studios, a one-stop all-encompassing shop, which is set to rock the industry with phenomenal force!... read more
The World of Syncos
Scratch studios ,www.scratch studios.org, Ghana’s leading media organization is on top of its game again!The media outfit which is the conception of a group of inspired people including Hugh Masekela, George Williams, Carlos Sakyi, Ben Brako and Teddy Osei and music aficionados and entrepreneurs such as Kofi Amoakohene Reginald Laryea and Oskar C.J. Ibru to mention a few. Their desire and passion for music and entertainment, has brought them together to discover, develop and experiment with various genres of music and to introduce SYNCOS music which is the synchronization of the "SOUL" in the traditional African music with the "SOUL" within different musical spectrum into one beautiful world melody. Incidentally Teddy Osei of the world renowned Osibisa group and Hugh masekela are known to been the pioneer and father of “SYNCOS” respectively having had No 1 hits on Billboard magazine world music charts.
