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    Posted: January 28 2007 at 11:37
What's the name of the band with flying elephant on the cover?
Just curious, thanks!
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 12:03
Osibisa.
 
 
Excellent Afro-prog / highlife from the seventies.
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 10:14
Thanks alot!
I need to found out more about that band, since i nearly bought an album of theirs only because of the cover.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 15:57
^^Glad to be able to help.
 
In terms of an album I'd recommend you get the one I pictured above, Woyaya.  Their other efforts (that I have heard) suffer from a little cheese factor, Woyaya doesn't have this problem and is just joyful music.  Groovy, jazzy, a little proggy, with a blissed-out lyrical approach - think of an African version of Santana but with the emphasis on horns rather than guitar (though there is also some nice guitar) and you'd get somewhere close... 
 
Great production from Tony Visconti as well.  If you deal with vinyl at all I'd recommend trying to find a good second hand copy of the LP, as I also have a CD transfer and sound-wise it's a pretty shoddy job IMO.


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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 16:02
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Thanks alot!
I need to found out more about that band, since i nearly bought an album of theirs only because of the cover.
 
There's a track by Osibisa on their BIO page:
 
 
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Points: 564 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 22:29
Oh thanks for that link and the description of thier music!   I've been really curious (but lazy) about them for some months since I found an album of thiers in a thrift store. Unfortunatly the vinyl inside was some other artist.

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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2007 at 13:24
They're defenatly on my never-ending withlist now! Thumbs%20Up
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