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Artist: Osibisa
Label: Aim Records
Category: Music

Buy New: $15.98

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews
Sales Rank: 94345

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4

UPC: 766489039428
EAN: 0752211105523
ASIN: B00000G5YH

Release Date: December 12, 1997
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 11 to 14 days

Tracks:

•	Sunshine Day
•	Welcome Home
•	Densu-Trad.
•	Chooboi (Heave Ho!)
•	Do It (Like It Is)
•	Right Now
•	Seaside-Meditation
•	Uhuru
•	Kolomashie-Trad.
•	Bum To Bum
•	Agoro
•	Sunshine Day (Single Edit

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Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
The most rare of Osibisa's releases, originally only released in Africa.

Album Description
Osibisa's self-titled album opened up their unique blend of African and Western styled music to a wider audience, charting in both the U.S. and Europe. Produced by Tony Visconti, Osibisa's extraordinary merger of African drum beats, colorful rhythms, and rock-inspired keyboard and horn parts give it an expansive sound that infuses countless musical influences. Even the melodies take bits of rhythm & blues and modern rock and affix them to the accompanying percussion beats to come up with a contemporary feel with an avant-garde atmosphere. Tracks such as 'Dawn,' 'Phallus C,' and 'Oranges' incorporate fragments of traditional jazz and jazz fusion mainly because of the flute and saxophone into their core, but then fashions the result to resemble the band's true heritage. Each song conjures up a certain African mysticism with its stressed rhythms and semi-primordial tempos. The

Album Details
Remastered Reissue of their Tenth Album, which Included the Hit Sunshine Day, Originally Released in 1976, and Now Available on CD with Two Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

An Incredible Album September 27, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

My friend Lee S_____ loaned me the tape cassette of this album back around 1982. The title cut has been floating around in my mind since then. After looking for a copy of this for years, I was pleased to see that it was available again. After listening to it repeatedly, I think that this CD is as good as I remembered it to be.