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 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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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".
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
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!!
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
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 ...
I'm 71, loved the artwork on the cover and the instrumental originality, crafstman blending jazz with traditional current future music transcending boundaries.
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).
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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just great i was 21 when i purchased this album now i am 69 and i still love it
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!
GREAT ♥️ 👍 TIME FLEW AWAY VERY FAST
Similar to me probably.
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Listened the heck out of this album before I went into the Navy in 1971. Always loved this music.
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
Gotthisonvynalunbelivible
Me too I listened to Osibissa decades ago but now they are back.Da Dawn.Fantastic music the SUN.
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!
Johnny P: Agreed totally.
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.
His name is Spartacus R, a very fine Brixton Hill based bass player who died a few years ago
Spartacus R was his name,fantastic Bass player
I was a little boy, probably 5 or 6 years old when this album made an impression on me. Still a favourite!
A mate bought it and we would listen to it
love it I am 72 seeing them live was almost a religious experience.
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
This was the joint he he
Tell you what! Osibisa were one of my very favorite groups to get stoned to back in the '70s!
So We could hear all the notes 💯
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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!
Decades since I tuned in to this ;) Love it. Saw them play in Bournemouth in '76 (?) and danced my arse off.
I listen while In elementary in the 60s there was nothing like it and there still isn't
a looooooong long time ago I had their flying elephants hanging from huge posters in my room. Album sleeves were works of Art!
The Dawn ....of World Music. Beautiful.
We used to listen to this album on late night surf trips up the coast on long hauls. Thx for the memories.
Saw them live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester 1972 Wow what a band
TIM ELLAM me too great concert.
Great days. 🐝🐝🐝
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.
Great music from the 70s got a good feeling from these songs in my youth.
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.
if Ian Anderson had been born black African.... that flute playing is definitley Tull-derived!
+pragmatist - and the guitar santanaesque... :-)
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.
+munyan - wow, cool comment - yay... :-)
Excellent!!!!
Saw these guys on Don Kirschner's Pot Party ages ago- the bass player is god.
Yea, Spartacus R,what a name !
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.
almost 50 years later still great
Somewhere between Santana, War, and Mandrill there's a link called Osibisa
Pioneer PL12 + Shure M75 cartridge....Pioneer Amp.....KEF speakers... +... OSIBISA.. on vynil... =... Happiness.
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...
still wonderful still great, still amazing music, after all these years,,, gelu batir romania rm,valcea town june 2020
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
Bom
Acid; mushroom; speed or what have you music. Took me places back in the day.
oh yes I remember those days well.
Awesome music….
I still have this album
King Crimson meets Tull meets Santana meets Peter Green
Gr8 Band Better Memories...
Grandes recuerdos
this is great, and i love baked potatoes
thats really crazy you mention that. I too love baked potatoes and share an enthusiasm for TAARGUS TAARGUS
Stereo MC's
Here in my area people got tattoo of the mystical elephant covering their back sid...listening sing the begining...OSIBISA!
REAL!
I think I've found a working time machine!
Yea, this was the one. For real!
Thank you
This song is off one of the best albums in the world! 🎸🎺
agreed vastly underated band
John Myra & i still have it :-) ♥♡
Wow Africa BEAT.
40 years later I listen to this great band again - and WOW what fine music !!!!!!!
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
thanks for the info. - this is so beautiful
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".
Me too Geoff, I'm 60 now! I was 15 when I heard this for the first time and I was lost!
Me too.
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.
I saw them live in Brisbane Australia 3 times.......absolutely the best and every concert was opened with the dawn.........
Yep, Festival Hall in late 1970s, then at a restaurant in Spring Hill in early 1980s?
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.
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..
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!!
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
ha ha ha
Real lions on main that's hunting for gong gong with the bang bang
Love it... I think i was there...
not sure if it was this album but ditto on Osibisa on LSD, 1971... here's the full album: th-cam.com/video/I-RbQjI3g-A/w-d-xo.html
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.
enjoying this after nearly 4 decades. wonderful sound
Cover Artist is Roger Dean
Yes!
@@cristauxfeur2560 yes is a perfect answer ;-)
@@giovannipeirone3915 Indeed!
Luckily I saw them many times in London in the early 1970s great characters led by Teddy Osai, joyous uplifting music.
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 ...
I'm 71, loved the artwork on the cover and the instrumental originality, crafstman blending jazz with traditional current future music transcending boundaries.
Yes, decades later and it's still magnificent :)
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).
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!
Fantastic Band! Superb. Hard as shit, and jazzy as hell.
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.
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... 😂😂😂
Born in south africa now living in australia live with this music am now 63 and will always love the sounds of AFRICA
I am similar, born in southern England been in Melbourne Australia for many years
Like Zappa meets Africa ,,genius shit
+soulpolishur still a great listen - casual but tight enough
Nostalgia a its very best, 40 years plus
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...
this is like a Ghanaian Jethro Tull
Twi-Osibisa
English-He said Ask!
Ghana here!🇬🇭
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.
Mac Tontoh
still have this album ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡ thankyou uploader x
I came across this vinyl today, had to immediately buy it
this music transports you to infinity, opens your mind and the worlds come to you
Rock progressivo africano a melhor e maior banda dos anos70 para mim quebra tudo
True talk.
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 rival Santana in capturing the essence of a Continent.
Just found this on Lp at a st vincent, along with Ten years after Sssh, great find! Cover art is superb.
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!
I HAD SSSH AND OSIBISA TOO!CA. 50 YEARS AGO!!!?????
Everything about this sound is fantastic, d drum all the sweet instruments .. osibisa 🔥🔥.
omg -amazing - thanks for posting. It's just so intense.
Orgânico! Viva África mãe...
Thanks Mother Africa
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!
***** Do you know which cover Dean painted first?
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.
Nathan Turner Dean Also did the cover art for Lighthouse's *One Fine Morning*, and I thought that might have come before Osibasa.
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.
I am now 75..... I remember seeing Osibisa at the Roundhouse. It was one of the best concerts ever, and I still am here listening. 🙌
HAVENT HEARD THIS IN ABOUT 40 YEARS. THEY SOUND A LOT LIKE SANTANA IN SOME SONGS , AND JETHRO TULL .
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!
Stimulating
I had the opportunity to see their live performance in Bangalore, when i was in collegei87iy
my fave on album ♥
Saw them in Devizes corn bin in the early 1970's and they just blew the place apart.
I already was in love with the world through national geographic Marilyn vance
Good memories, my brothers played this all the time when we were growing up.
Yeah, as kids we also listened to this LP constantly and drove our parents absolutely crazy .. way back in the early 70's
Wonderful Band. In dept, very real.
Thank You
I bought this album when it was released. It's an awesome album !
The panorama on Osibisa songs is amazing. So full and well balanced
My very best even now at 69 years young. Thanks
Still a very good en powerfull song..I love it
Buena. Música. Un. Buen. Recuerdo. Año. 73
Uno de los mejores temas de introducción para darle la bienvenida a un gran LP
Criss cross rythms that produces happiness.