just great i was 21 when i purchased this album now i am 69 and i still love it

@daviddragavon7555

Жыл бұрын

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!

@MAU9820.

Жыл бұрын

GREAT ♥️ 👍 TIME FLEW AWAY VERY FAST

@user-jv8yp4te9w

4 ай бұрын

Similar to me probably.

@mitchellcoleman9354

4 ай бұрын

Aà a we​@@daviddragavon7555

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'm 71, loved the artwork on the cover and the instrumental originality, crafstman blending jazz with traditional current future music transcending boundaries.

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 ...

40 years later I listen to this great band again - and WOW what fine music !!!!!!!

@EddioPinaR

9 жыл бұрын

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

@ziporalinzer2475

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the info. - this is so beautiful

@ziporalinzer2475

7 жыл бұрын

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".

@stefke48

6 жыл бұрын

Me too Geoff, I'm 60 now! I was 15 when I heard this for the first time and I was lost!

@MrRouse

5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

Born in south africa now living in australia live with this music am now 63 and will always love the sounds of AFRICA

@user-jv8yp4te9w

4 ай бұрын

I am similar, born in southern England been in Melbourne Australia for many years

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.

@brendasmith1434

4 жыл бұрын

Oh Wow, how fortunate for you, just to see the Last Poets, and Osibisa .. .not discounting War..whom I have seen, but what a great lineup..

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

@peterbailey7265

Жыл бұрын

Gotthisonvynalunbelivible

Listened the heck out of this album before I went into the Navy in 1971. Always loved this music.

This song is off one of the best albums in the world! 🎸🎺

@gategi10

6 жыл бұрын

agreed vastly underated band

@paulajordan8113

5 жыл бұрын

John Myra & i still have it :-) ♥♡

@coconuciferanuts339

3 жыл бұрын

Wow Africa BEAT.

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!!!!!

Went for a job interview in London in 1972 and stayed with my cousin. He had this album on all the time. Didn't get the job, but I did get this album!

Me too I listened to Osibissa decades ago but now they are back.Da Dawn.Fantastic music the SUN.

I saw them live in Brisbane Australia 3 times.......absolutely the best and every concert was opened with the dawn.........

@RedAnchor12

9 ай бұрын

Yep, Festival Hall in late 1970s, then at a restaurant in Spring Hill in early 1980s?

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

I last listened to this piece 43 years ago. Brings back memories.

enjoying this after nearly 4 decades. wonderful sound

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!

@kpete9219

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny P: Agreed totally.

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.

back in the day..early 70's i think.. we used to get really chilled out on this album.especially this track..a few doobies and o man....lol

@obve4324

9 жыл бұрын

This was the joint he he

@WhiteTiger333

6 жыл бұрын

Tell you what! Osibisa were one of my very favorite groups to get stoned to back in the '70s!

@waynejohnson9286

4 жыл бұрын

So We could hear all the notes 💯

@hakanfors2957

3 жыл бұрын

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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!!

A mate bought it and we would listen to it love it I am 72 seeing them live was almost a religious experience.

It's the truth! Criss cross rhythms that explode with HaPPiness! So grateful that Cleveland had a cool radio station WMMS way back in the early 70's.

I was a little boy, probably 5 or 6 years old when this album made an impression on me. Still a favourite!

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.

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.

@wotizit2937

5 жыл бұрын

His name is Spartacus R, a very fine Brixton Hill based bass player who died a few years ago

@piglet1953

5 жыл бұрын

Spartacus R was his name,fantastic Bass player

My father bought this when I was a kid. Use to wake me up on Sundays playing it at full volume. I now have this album as he left me his collection

Rock progressivo africano a melhor e maior banda dos anos70 para mim quebra tudo

@chukwuemekaokolo7296

2 ай бұрын

True talk.

Twi-Osibisa English-He said Ask! Ghana here!🇬🇭

Luckily I saw them many times in London in the early 1970s great characters led by Teddy Osai, joyous uplifting music.

a looooooong long time ago I had their flying elephants hanging from huge posters in my room. Album sleeves were works of Art!

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).

Man my dad had this album and he'd play it all the time! To this day I have the whole thing memorized and this track, THIS TRACK is my favorite!

Yes, decades later and it's still magnificent :)

The Dawn ....of World Music. Beautiful.

Decades since I tuned in to this ;) Love it. Saw them play in Bournemouth in '76 (?) and danced my arse off.

@jimmygarza4242

5 жыл бұрын

I listen while In elementary in the 60s there was nothing like it and there still isn't

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.

@wotizit2937

4 жыл бұрын

Mac Tontoh

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.

I came across this vinyl today, had to immediately buy it

I wasn't alive in the 70s but by the grace of some mighty power this album came in to my hands. Find of the century!

Orgânico! Viva África mãe...

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.

We used to listen to this album on late night surf trips up the coast on long hauls. Thx for the memories.

still have this album ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡ thankyou uploader x

My very best even now at 69 years young. Thanks

Everything about this sound is fantastic, d drum all the sweet instruments .. osibisa 🔥🔥.

Saw them live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester 1972 Wow what a band

@jeffreywatterson67

6 жыл бұрын

TIM ELLAM me too great concert. Great days. 🐝🐝🐝

Great music from the 70s got a good feeling from these songs in my youth.

Wonderful Band. In dept, very real. Thank You

Excellent!!!!

What a great band! Saw them perform live in Chicago in the early 1970's. T!he drumming and percussion was superb!

Good memories, my brothers played this all the time when we were growing up.

@samesat4156

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as kids we also listened to this LP constantly and drove our parents absolutely crazy .. way back in the early 70's

Have the vynil somewhere. Love the music and the artwork is a classic. Reminds me of the hot summer. Well and truly high and enjoy our young age.

The panorama on Osibisa songs is amazing. So full and well balanced

They rival Santana in capturing the essence of a Continent.

omg -amazing - thanks for posting. It's just so intense.

Getting older doesn't feel so bad after all. Remembering Vinny's (mom's) basement party when he brought this from Europe. Teeny boppers we were.

this music transports you to infinity, opens your mind and the worlds come to you

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...

if Ian Anderson had been born black African.... that flute playing is definitley Tull-derived!

@friesiamans1966

6 жыл бұрын

+pragmatist - and the guitar santanaesque... :-)

@munyansebastien7127

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@friesiamans1966

6 жыл бұрын

+munyan - wow, cool comment - yay... :-)

I bought this album when it was released. It's an awesome album !

Nostalgia a its very best, 40 years plus

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

@paulajordan8113

9 жыл бұрын

ha ha ha

@robertgomez7229

5 жыл бұрын

Real lions on main that's hunting for gong gong with the bang bang

@delinadimitroff8043

4 жыл бұрын

Love it... I think i was there...

@allanerickson5053

4 жыл бұрын

not sure if it was this album but ditto on Osibisa on LSD, 1971... here's the full album: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2GGxLOjeZbNXaQ.html

Many of foggy afternoons in my room puffing to this classic

my fave on album ♥

Buena. Música. Un. Buen. Recuerdo. Año. 73

Thanks Mother Africa

Just found this on Lp at a st vincent, along with Ten years after Sssh, great find! Cover art is superb.

@doneisen2932

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@kainzart6982

4 жыл бұрын

I HAD SSSH AND OSIBISA TOO!CA. 50 YEARS AGO!!!?????

Criss cross rythms that produces happiness.

Saw these guys on Don Kirschner's Pot Party ages ago- the bass player is god.

@piglet1953

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, Spartacus R,what a name !

2019 Ghanaians are we here?

The album art used to mesmerise me, you know the imagination of a 7 year old boy.... The elephants were really flying in my head... 😂😂😂

Fifty years later! Thanks to the person who mentioned them on Desert Island Discs last week - I'd forgotten about them - they still sound amazing!

This is beautiful!!!!

Still a very good en powerfull song..I love it

Osibisa... rhythm and vibes.. along with Rodger Dean's artwork live on !!

Great musicians along with Manu Dibango--West Africa’s best!

still wonderful still great, still amazing music, after all these years,,, gelu batir romania rm,valcea town june 2020

Somewhere between Santana, War, and Mandrill there's a link called Osibisa

Great in 71, great now and soulpoishor YES

Cover Artist is Roger Dean

@cristauxfeur2560

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@giovannipeirone3915

5 жыл бұрын

@@cristauxfeur2560 yes is a perfect answer ;-)

@christopherjoyce3586

4 жыл бұрын

@@giovannipeirone3915 Indeed!

I love Osibisa!

Underrated for real!!

Pioneer PL12 + Shure M75 cartridge....Pioneer Amp.....KEF speakers... +... OSIBISA.. on vynil... =... Happiness.

Fantastic Band! Superb. Hard as shit, and jazzy as hell.

almost 50 years later still great

Uno de los mejores temas de introducción para darle la bienvenida a un gran LP

Saw them in Devizes corn bin in the early 1970's and they just blew the place apart.

Awesome music….

Excelente costoso de ouvir bem harmonioso

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

@paulocesardonascimentomart7317

3 жыл бұрын

Bom

I had the opportunity to see their live performance in Bangalore, when i was in collegei87iy

I still have this album

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!

@adrianlackey5107

10 жыл бұрын

***** Do you know which cover Dean painted first?

@nevadanate4957

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@adrianlackey5107

9 жыл бұрын

Nathan Turner Dean Also did the cover art for Lighthouse's *One Fine Morning*, and I thought that might have come before Osibasa.

@jlanz1316

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@Elaboratory

6 жыл бұрын

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.

MINHA INFÂNCIA, AMO MUITO!

Love it!

Gr8 Band Better Memories...

Thank you

HAVENT HEARD THIS IN ABOUT 40 YEARS. THEY SOUND A LOT LIKE SANTANA IN SOME SONGS , AND JETHRO TULL .

Acid; mushroom; speed or what have you music. Took me places back in the day.

@ziporalinzer2475

7 жыл бұрын

oh yes I remember those days well.