Me too! I am also 69. Though it did cause a humorous case of mistaken identity in the dorm when we were playing it loudly and some Kenyan Exchange students at our door. Not sure who they were expecting in Pullman Wa. But it wasn't us. Turns out they were great guys!
I'm 71, loved the artwork on the cover and the instrumental originality, crafstman blending jazz with traditional current future music transcending boundaries.
In my childhood I listened to this music and now I am 36. I searched a lot, but I failed and now I have found it again. I feel as I have got back my childhood again! Biswanath, India...
I saw the band play in Perth in the 70's. They were late getting on stage to boohs but got a standing ovation when they left. I am in my 70's and still like the percussion effects.
I saw them at the warehouse in new Orleans & I was just a teenager.but I never forgot them & still today I love the woyaya album.its definitely one of my favorite bands of all times
Saw them live at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion back when? 60's? Loved then you just had to dance to their music! Remember at one point saxophone guy got on shoulders of another member bloody amazing!!!!!
Early 1970's in Chicago... Concert with The Last Poets, Osibisa and War. In that order... After Osibisa was finished... no one wanted to even see War perform... Osibisa was that good... Blew everyone totally away.
Es como escuchar AFRICA como Madre amorosa que nos envuelve en sus ritmos de tambores-voces matices, fuerza y poder combinados...¡¡¡extraordinarios, los segui en mi juventud y ahora en mi madurez, ¡¡¡increibles seres irrepetibles maetros!!
Was still a teenager at 16 my brother Hippie style then in Hillbrow Johannesburg had a kiosk in an all white Flea market ,.... i just were in love with this group ever ...
Welcome to the house of good music my friend. Seek for american Blues, soul and rhtym and blues for mor music like this... Also look for afro beat and caribean soca - you´ll be pleased
Hello Eddio - here we are 5 months later and I took your advice and found some awesome music so thanks for sharing that invaluable information. And, you are absolutely right because, "I AM PLEASED".
OMG takes me right back to Camden in the late 70's through to the 80's ..... I went to see them sooo many times ... could never get enough. From the start of the gig to the end I would be dancing non-stop ... I just had to !!!! The guy with the small dreads who used to just stroll up and down ... played bass ... used to fascinate me.
Takes me back to San Francisco Ca. When I was young and just having fun. Those were the days. Of enjoying ths music we grow up with how time flys it seem like yesterday how memories do remember well.
Last heard this in 1980... 37 years ago... used it in a piece of performance art at art school. What an amazing track, gives me goose bumps all over again
The drums, the BASS guitar, the rhythm and those high flute(?) notes. GOOOOOOOOD! This was advent to many musicians/bands, and good for anyone to have a listen!
Years ago that I heard it. After Ghana almost won from Germany WK Brasil I wanted to hear it again. Mike Tontoh en Teddy Osei, both from Ghana played in Osibisa. Don't know if I write those names correctly. Their first and best album.
Thank you for allowing me to rediscover this band again. I'd forgotten how fantastic and uplifting they were. I used to listen to them back in the 70's (Radio Luxembourg) on short wave, in the wee hours of the morning (from 1-3 am) from the UK (its the only time we could get the station).
IMPRESIONANTE. Este LP en Madrid era dificilísimo de conseguir. Me llegó con un amigo de la base de Torrejón. Lo perdí en una mudanza. Siempre me gustó.
They played in Benidorm, Spain, in 1972. I bought cassettes of this album and the next one (Woyaya) for 100 pesetas each. I listen to both now and then (Spotify) I didn’t like the next album ((Heads) nor whatever they did after that. My favorite song is Spirits Up Above.
Just had this sad realisation what happens when I hear all the music from the 70s... it’s not like there can be more made... man I got to start a band...
One of my VERY few attempts at art was recreating this particular flying elephant in pastels...I agree that the flying elephant on Osibisa's first album is magnificent!
Ian Anderson himself was heavily influenced by Roland Kirk. I always thought there was something deeply African in Kirk's way of blowing. Just check out west african flutists from Sénegal or other west african countries.
I picked this album up quite carelessly from my local vinyl café because it was on sale and the artwork reminded me of Yes album covers. They're definitely not Yes but I was very happy with my purchase, will seek them out on cd for sure!
Adrian Lackey He painted this one first. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, this was the first album cover he was commissioned to do. Later that same year he would do the art for Fragile and that made him famous.
This Album sent chills throughout my being as much as Yes and so did Steel Pulse in "Earth Crisis." Thank you , my friend, May you be granted the peace you so longed for.
I'm sorry to disagree, Adrian Lackey, but the artist for Lighthouse's **One Fine Morning** (as well as their follow-up lp, **Thoughts of Moving On**) was Brad Johannsen.
My Dad told me a story of him and his buddies tripping their balls off hunting lions in the livingroom in 1973 Belgium ,,so I got the album on record and in 95 I hunted lions in Maine
not sure if it was this album but ditto on Osibisa on LSD, 1971... here's the full album: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I-RbQjI3g-A.html
OMG. I have been looking for this for more than 40 years I was 16 my best friend was 19 we would get so stoned. I remember his girlfriend didn't like me She didn't like me around him. She said that I was a bad influence but in reality it was the other way around I can remember it was some of the great times in life
