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Woyaya
''Woyaya'' is the second album by Ghanaian Afro-rock band Osibisa released in 1971 by MCA. It was reissued in 2004 in a two-CD pack together with the self-titled album ''Osibisa'' by BGO Records. Album title Although conventionally spelled ''Woyaya'' the album's title is actually ''Wɔyaya'' (with an open-o), which comes from the Ghanaian Ga language of the Ga-Dangme people and translates as "We are going". The title song was covered in 1973 by Art Garfunkel on his debut solo album ''Angel Clare'' and by the group The 5th Dimension on their 1973 album ''Living Together, Growing Together''. "Woyaya" was also used as the signature tune for the popular Ghanaian television drama series '' Osofo Dadzie'', which was broadcast between 1972 and 1981.Review by j. poet External links * * Lisa G. Littlebird"Woyaya" TheBirdSings.com {{Authority control 1971 albums Osibisa albums MCA Records albums Albums produced by Tony Visconti Albums with cover art by Roger Dean (artist) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osofo Dadzie
''Osofo Dadzie'' (formed in October 1972) is the title of a Ghanaian television drama series that was aired in the 1970s and 1980s. It was performed by the Osofo Dadzie group, a drama and concert group that was very popular in Ghana at the time the series ran. The group enjoyed two major stints on Ghanaian television; from 1972 to 1982, and then from 1985 to 1989. Concert Party Osofo Dadzie was initially a touring concert party group known as the S. K. Oppong Drama Group. They toured rural and urbran areas of Ghana where they performed improvised and unscripted stage plays accompanied by live music. Their first breakthrough came when they were recruited to perform alongside the African Brothers Band led by Nana Kwame Ampadu. Most concert parties at the time combined music and theatre. Osofo Dadzie was a very popular group and had many performances around the country.Numerous classified adverts for Osofo Dadzie performances in one single edition of the Daily Graphic newspaper. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osibisa
Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-Rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in London, alongside such contemporaries as Assagai, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, Black Velvet and Noir, and were largely responsible for the establishment of world music and Afro-Rock as a marketable genre. The original band which featured on the first three studio albums were universally known as the Beautiful Seven. History In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Soloman (Sol) Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form the Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I Feel) Pata Pata". In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osibisa (album)
''Osibisa'' is the self-titled debut album by British afro rock band Osibisa, released in 1971 by MCA. It was reissued in 2004 as a two-CD pack together with '' Woyaya'' by BGO Records. Track listing Charts Personnel ;Osibisi * Teddy Osei – tenor saxophone, flute, African drums, percussion, lead vocals on "The Dawn", "Music for Gong Gong" and "Ayiko Bia" * Sol Amarfio – drums, percussion, vocals * Mac Tontoh – trumpet, flugelhorn, kabasa, percussion, vocals * Spartacus R (Roy Bedeau) – bass guitar, assorted percussion * Wendell Richardson – lead guitar, lead vocals on "Think About the People" * Robert Bailey – organ, piano, timbales, percussion, vocals * Loughty Lasisi Amao – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, congas, percussion Production * Tony Visconti - producer * John Punter - engineer * Martin Rushent - assistant engineer * Roger Dean - cover illustration, Osibisi logo * Roughedge - cover design References * All information from back cover of CD ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Clare
''Angel Clare'', the debut solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released on September 11, 1973, is his highest-charting solo album, peaking at No. 5. It includes his only Top 10 hit in the US as a solo artist, "All I Know", which peaked at No. 9. It also contained two other Top 40 hits, "Traveling Boy" (#102 Bubbling under the Hot 100, No. 38 Adult Contemporary) and "I Shall Sing" (No. 38 Hot 100, No. 4 Adult Contemporary). It was produced by long-time Simon & Garfunkel producer Roy Halee, alongside Art Garfunkel. The title, ''Angel Clare'', comes from the name of a character in Thomas Hardy's novel, '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles''. Songs "Traveling Boy" was the third single of the album and the opening track. Written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, the song tells the story of a young man heading for the road, leaving a lover behind. The opening track piano riff was made by Larry Knechtel, with J.J. Cale performing the guitar solo. Garfunkel took three takes on the voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Visconti
Anthony Edward Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is an American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers. His first hit single was T. Rex's " Ride a White Swan" in 1970, the first of many hits in collaboration with Marc Bolan. Visconti's lengthiest involvement was with David Bowie: intermittently from the production and arrangement of Bowie's 1968 single "In the Heat of the Morning" / "London Bye Ta-Ta" to his final album ''Blackstar'' in 2016, Visconti produced and occasionally performed on many of Bowie's albums. Visconti's work on ''Blackstar'' was cited in its Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and his production of Angelique Kidjo's '' Djin Djin'' was cited in its Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. Early life Visconti was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Italian descent. He started to play the ukulele when he was five years old, and then learned guitar. He attended N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heads (Osibisa Album)
''Heads'' is the third album by British Afro rock band Osibisa released in 1972. Track listing Charts Personnel * Teddy Osei – tenor saxophone, flute, African drums, vocals * Sol Amarfio – African drums, bells, bongos, cowbells, drums, percussion, vocals * Mac Tontoh – trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet, kabasa, percussion, vocals * Spartacus R (Roy Bedeau) – bass guitar, percussion * Wendell Richardson – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals * Robert Bailey – congas, flute, acoustic guitar, Moog bass, organ, piano, electric piano, clavinet, timbales, percussion, vocals * Loughty Lasisi Amao – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, congas * Robert Bailey, Jr. – bass, acoustic guitar, Moog synthesizer, organ, piano, electric piano, timbales, vocals Production * Producer – Osibisa and John Punter * Engineer – John Punter * Cover painting – Abdul Mati Klarwein * Cover design – David Howells * Osibisa logo – Roger Dean * Photography – Shepard Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Dean (artist)
William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s. The groups for whom he did the most art are the English rock bands Yes and Asia. The covers often feature exotic fantasy landscapes. His work has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. Early life William Roger Dean was born on 31 August 1944 in Ashford, Kent. His mother studied dress design at Canterbury School of Art before her marriage and his father was an engineer in the British Army. He has three siblings, brother Martyn and sisters Penny and Philippa. Much of Dean's childhood was spent in Greece, Cyprus, and, from age 12 to 15, Hong Kong, so his father could carry out army duties. Dean was very keen on natural history as a child, and Chinese landscape art and feng shui became particular influences on him during his time in Hong Kong. He has cited landscape, "and the pathways thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Punter
John Punter (born 27 January 1949) is a former English record producer and recording engineer. He has worked with many bands and musicians, such as Japan, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Doctors of Madness, Sad Café and Slade. His career in music spanned over 30 years and many different genres. He is now retired from the entertainment business, and ran a small bar in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. On July 24, 2019, he became a citizen of Canada. Selected production, mixing and remixing *Japan - ''Quiet Life'' - 1979 *Japan - ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' - 1980 *Japan - ''Oil on Canvas'' - 1983 *Ivan - ''The Spell'' *Spoons - ''Arias & Symphonies'', '' Vertigo Tango'' *Bryan Ferry - ''Let's Stick Together'' - 1976 *Nazareth - ''Nazareth'' - 1970 *Nazareth - '' 2XS'' - 1982 *Roxy Music - '' Country Life'' - 1974 *Doctors of Madness - '' Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms'' *Sad Café - ''Fanx Ta-Ra'' - 1977 *Sad Café - ''Misplaced Ideals'' - 1978 *Judie Tzuke - ''Welcome to the Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prempensua
thumb , Prempensua and guitar playing at a wedding feast in Ghana. The ''prempensua'' is a large lamellophone used in the music of Ghana, similar to the ''marímbula'' or rumba box. The word ''prempensua'' is in the Akan language, although similar instruments are played by other ethnolinguistic groups in Ghana. It is also known as the ‘’kono’’ by the Kassena people, ‘’animgbo’’ by the Dagomba people, and the ‘’gyilgo’’ by the Gonja people Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu, endonym Ngbanya) was a kingdom in northern Ghana founded in 1675 by Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa. The word can also refer to the people of this kingdom. Origin The Gonja are a Guan people who have been influenced by Dagbon, Aka .... References Listening''Prempensua'' audio sample Ghanaian musical instruments Comb lamellophones {{Ghana-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontomfrom
Fontomfrom is a Bono type of hourglass-shaped drum mostly used by an ensemble of Bono people to communicate Bono monarchy royal messages in a Bono people ethnic group setting. The Fontomfrom ensemble provides music for ceremonies honoring Bono chiefs and Bono monarchy royal processions. The Fontomfrom is also used to recite proverbs or replicate patterns of speech at most Bono monarchy royal gatherings or a Bono monarchy royal durbar. The Fontomfrom evolved from the popular hourglass-shaped drum (talking drum) of the 7th century. Shortly after the evolution, a few more non-hourglass shapes such as the Dunan, Sangban, Kenkeni and Ngoma drums were produced. Prior to the Fontomfrom becoming the ensemble that it is today, it was first introduced into Bonoman by Bonohene Akumfi Ameyaw I and Bonohemaa Owusuaa Abrafi circa 1320s, from North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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