January 9, 2016

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Osibisa - Sunshine Day / Bum To Bum (1975) - single

Osibisa are a British Afro-pop band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were one of the first African-heritage bands to become widely popular and linked with the world music description.
Osibisa are not referred to often these days when historians look back at the evolution of world music. For listeners at the time who were unfamiliar with African popular music (and, to a large degree, for listeners of every era), Santana served as an inevitable comparison. With their fusion of African beats and funk-R&B-rock, their album “Welcome Home” could often sound like early-'70s Santana without the emphasis on psychedelic guitar, and without nearly as much blues and Latin influence as Santana had. (The Santana-like cover graphics couldn't have helped keep the comparisons at bay, either.) Yet there was quite a bit more in the way of distinctly African rhythms, often making the album sound like something of a link between Santana and the Afrobeat that would become popular in the 1980s. On occasion, the record ventured into slightly poppier territory with a languid cheer that verged on the sappy, though admittedly that approach did give them a U.K. hit with "Sunshine Day."

A - Sunshine Day  (3:08)
Written-By – Tontoh, Amarfio, Osei / Producer – Gerry Bron
B - Bum To Bum  (5:38)
Written-By – Gyan, Ayivor / Producer – Gerry Bron

Release: 1975
Label:  Bronze Records
Catalog#  16479 AT

1975

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