https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qTV2MKO_E
― hobbes, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
OSIBISA C/DCymande
― jaxon, Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Who is that?
Ofege. Great record. Ian's store reissued it
http://www.academyannex.com/blog/?p=40
― dmr, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anyone mention the Ghana Soundz comps? think Ofege has a track on Ghana Soundz Vol. 1
http://www.thegoldbrick.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/ghana-soundz-vol-1.jpg
― dmr, Monday, 19 April 2010 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Next month Soundway is reissuing The Kusum Beat, an album by the Ghanaian band Sweet Talks (who are on the Ghana Soundz comps).
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, 19 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
this is closer to cymande than to fela, but the assagai album is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhHbPG97bM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-z9dHaTG4&feature=related
― women are a bunch of dudes (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Ofo the Black Company!!!
― I won't vote for you unless you acknowledge my magic pony (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 April 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Since the Cymande album contains some reggae vibes, the Cedric Im Brooks & The Light of Saba reissue could suit your needs.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i love seun kuti's 'many things' record, straight up afrobeat but with a really muscular brass band-ish sound.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 19 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSWGTULDEQ
― 51|)e|-|4x012z (ojo), Monday, 19 April 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/7HkNqcidT8Y7gQRXJvL5QH
the sylophone years, recommended upthread is so so amazing! you all need this, haven't enjoyed a record this much in ages.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 3 May 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
syliphone*
you may want to investigate Ras Michael & Sons of Negus - Rastafari Dub for more of the Nyabinghi drumming / rastaman chants.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 May 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Ian that track rules. It's got the psychedelic guitar solo (with nice panning) over that afrobeat. Who is that?
Question was about Ofege Tried To Love lp, answer is guitarist from Blo! who was brought in to add guitar to an otherwise finished lp.
Subsequently I'm wonderiong what the rest of Ofege's lps are like since they won't presumably have the same guitar. Unless in a repeat of the 70s Isley Brothers' material featuring a Hendrix influenced guitarist where the 60s band had the pre-fame Jimi, one of Ofege's teenage members started sounding like the Blo! guy.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ofo the Black Company!!
the track on Love Is a Real Thing is great. Is there much more around?Struck me as a black African MC5 or Hawkwind/spacerock band, so I'm desperate to hear more
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that's all there is - I've looked high and low for more and never turned up anything. that track is amazing tho
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
what can you tell me about Osibisa? I have their album 'Heads' inherited from somewhere or other,but online reviews say it's a weaker album. Worth investigating further?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
I only know the first album which is really good. John Peel was a big fan of theirs, thats where i first heard of them
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link