Sunny, prog-y Afrobeat. The bands starts out by explicitly declaring their intention to spread positive vibes, then proceeds to expertly do just that for the entirety of the album. Discovered Osibisa, just like this little gem, due to its having been produced by Tony Visconti.
Track listing:
1. The Dawn
2. Music for Gong Gong
3. Ayiko Bia
4. Akwaaba
5. Oranges
6. Phallus C
7. Think About the People
Spirits up above
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ReplyDeleteThanx! I bought both this LP and the big poster, plus 4-5 more early LPs and a few 80s CDs. I also bought the 2nd LP poster, 'Woyaya' (also 1971), as well as a Budgie poster ('Never Turn Your Back On A Friend'), which also was by Rodger Dean, and put them all side by side in my cheap studio apartment circa '83. I also saw them in concert here in Sweden in the mid-80s and the 90s.
ReplyDeleteYou apartment circa '83 sounds like a pretty fucking cool place.
DeleteOh my I have photos from 1979-87...walls, cupboards, my living-/sleeping room, the kitchen, the hallway, the doors, the toilet - everything was covered with posters of Hendrix, Joy Division, Ozzy Osbourne, Socker-Conny, The Marx Brothers, 'A Clockwork Orange', The Residents, Chrome; stickers, clippings, comic strips from my daily newspaper, tshirts, concert tickets, picture LPs reverted into clocks, several blinking "Xmas lights" connected and running through the whole apartment...but I was only at the beginning of my 6,000 LP collection (that I sold in 2007)...the life of a hoarder-cum-bipolar.
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