Artist Lounge: Osibisa
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This is a great African folk song that has been sung by civil rights folks and church choirs for a long time. I'm psyched that it's in our new Unitarian Universalist hymnal supplement, and we sang it last week in church with me on lead vocals. I wanted to find a smokin' version to share with my Music Director so I downloaded two different ones, one by the awesome group Osibisa and another by the lovely duo Kim and Reggie Harris. The first version is like fist-in-the-air... MORE
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Lately, my life is filled with coincidences. Sometimes I get lucky and these moments of serendipity revolve around music. This year I have been exploring the catalog of the band Osibisa, and as always, discovering that the connections between me and the music go beyond a simple appreciation of their sound. Begun in 1969, with a sound they describe as "criss-cross rhythms that explode with happiness", Osibisa's core crew consisted of three highlife musicians from Gh... MORE
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I've been carrying this CD around for awhile with the intention of posting something from it on a Friday. Well here you go with some smooth funk sound from the wayback machine.
footnote: how can we have a "funky Friday" when there's not even a genre for it???
