LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 2CD packed into a 6 panel digipack, UV gloss with booklet
• Collection of lost live shows from the early ‘70s, from Germany, Norway and the UK.
• Includes radio and TV broadcasts
• Full colour booklet with background liners and rare images
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality

Osibisa, Lost ‘70s Live Shows

By fusing the sounds of Africa with western rock and prog influences, Osibisa can lay claim to being one of the most original-sounding groups of the early 1970's, with a rich and diverse palate of musical sounds and styles. Made up of four Africans and three Caribbean members, Osibisa were formed by the one constant throughout their long career, the versatile and ambitious Ghanian saxophone player Teddy Osei. With a joyous and exotic mixture of flutes, saxophones, guitars, bongo's, trumpets and African rhythms, their first two albums reached No.11 in the 1971 UK album charts and alongside such contemporaries as Assagai, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, Danta and Noir, Osibisa forged ahead in establishing world music as a widely popular and commercial genre. These rare broadcasts capture the band in its infant days, taking those innovative sounds to Germany, Norway and London’s Paris Theatre.

London Calling presents a stunning snapshot of seminal Afro Rock icons; Osibisa, performing material from their first two albums live in Europe! Fully restored and professionally remastered original broadcasts with background notes and timeline photos.

Track Listing:

DISC 1 ‘Beat Club’, Bremen, Germany July 24th 1971 Radio Bremen
• Phallus C
As ‘Ayiko Bia (Osibisa)’ Njårdhallen, Oslo, Norway November 15th 1971 NRK1 TV
• Music For Gong-Gong
• Y Sharp
• Spirits Up Above
• Beautiful Seven
• Ayiko Bia
DISC 2 ‘Live In Session’, Paris Theatre, London, February 1972 BBC Radio
• Beautiful Seven
• Spirits Up Above
• Y Sharp
• The Dawn
• Woyaya
• Survival
• Kokorokoo