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Willie's Blues.
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Most self-respecting Audiofiles should have copy of this, lots of drums and rhythms going on, find a good early pressing. Think Santana but with an African feel.
Osibisa – Osibisa
Label: MCA Records – MDKS 8001, MCA Records – MAPS 4740
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Gatefold, Black/Blue labels
Country: UK
Released: 1971
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Afrobeat, Prog Rock
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I used to think my music tastes were pretty wide ranging, but you've shown me it isn't really. :respect: Is the artwork Roger Dean? Looks like his work.
Yes its Roger Dean, just checked on the sleeve and it is, their first album Woyaya is also very good, this one is the 2nd. I recommend both!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
This is their 6th album and was seen as a departure from the original format, all of the original band members had gone apart from Carlos Santana, this is a jazz-funk-fusion oriented albums like the 4th Caravanserai, with are great IMO.
By the way this re-release on Speakers Corner Records is superb, or at least my copy is.
Santana – Borboletta
Label: Speakers Corner Records – PC 33135, Columbia – PC 33135
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 gr.
Country: Germany
Released: 2014
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Latin
Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, Jazz-Rock
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and so back to Osibisa:-
This album has a slightly more commercial and accessible style to it, maybe a bit too much so.
Osibisa are a British Afrobeat band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians. Their music is a fusion of African, Caribbean, jazz, funk, rock, Latin, and R&B and highlife.
The original line-up consisted of Teddy Osei (saxophone, flute, and vocals), Mac Tontoh (trumpet and background vocals), Sol Amarfio (drums and backing vocals), all three from Ghana, Loughty Lassisi Amao (congas, percussion, and horns), from Nigeria, Robert Bailey (keyboards), from Trinidad, Spartacus R (bass), from Grenada, and Wendell Richardson (lead guitar and vocals) from Antigua; together they were also known as "the beautiful seven". The first to exit officially was Spartacus R, who was replaced numerous times, once by the bassist of the group called Assagai and a few times by Jean Mandengue and others. Amao left and was replaced by Kofi Ayivor, who was replaced by Potato but returned to the group later. Richardson left in 1972 and returned in 1975 and henceforth "Welcome Home" and "Sunshine Day". Bailey was replaced by Kiki Gyan before "Sunshine Day"′s release. Richardson was replaced a few times by Kari Bannerman. Black Welsh guitarist Tony Etoria, who had a hit in 1977 with "I Can Prove It", joined on guitar in the early 1980s.
Osibisa – Ojah Awake
Label: Bronze – ILPS 9411
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1976
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Disco
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Story goes that Roger Dean was too busy to do the artwork for this album, so passed the job to his daughter, who was learning to tie her own shoelaces at the time. it earned her a merit badge at school.
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