Sunshine Day
Osibisa
Castle Music America, 2002
2 CD
Catalogue #: 72335
EAN: 0823107233528
UPC: 823107233528
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Osibisa: Wendall Richardson (vocals, guitar, dondo drum); Mac Tontoh (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, African xylophne, kabassa, bells); Mike Odumoso (vocals, bass, bells); Sol "Rhythm Man" Amarfio (vocals, congas, cowbells, drums); Kari Bannerman (acoustic guitar); Teddy Osei (flute, soprano & tenor saxophones); Kiki Gyan (piano, clavinet, organ); Robert Bailey (keyboards); Daku "Potato" (congas, percussion); Kofi Ayivor (conga); Sonia Lekhela, Ntobi Mdudu, Tiny Conco, Linda Conco (background vocals).
Producers: Gerry Bron, Teddy Osei.
Compilation producers: Rob Corich, John Reed.
Recorded between 1975 & 1980. Includes liner notes by Teddy Osei, Rob Corich.
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Osibisa
Before there was a genre known as "Afropop," the Ghanian and Caribbean members of Osibisa had a runaway popular success with their own particular blend of African highlife and Western pop and rock music. Based in London in the late 1960s, Osibisa had several songs hit the British pop charts and a brilliant but brief popularity which fizzled by the early '80s when roots music purists dismissed them as too pop and the mainstream vetoed their sound as too "African."
