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Ojah Awake

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Released
  
1976

Length
  
40:47

Release date
  
1976

Label
  
Bronze Records

Recorded
  
1976

Artist
  
Osibisa

Producer
  
Gerry Bron

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Ojah Awake (1976)
  
Black Magic Night Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977)

Genres
  
Rock music, Funk, African popular music, Afro pop music

Similar
  
Welcome Home, The Warrior, Black Magic Night: Liv, African Flight, Osibirock

Osibisa ojah awake


Ojah Awake is an album by British Afro-pop band Osibisa released in 1976 by Island Records ILPS 9411. Issued in 1995 CD format by AIM Records (AIM 1056 CD).

Contents

Personnel

  • Teddy Osei – tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, African drums, vocals
  • Mac Tontoh – trumpet, flugelhorn, cabasa, bells, rattle, timbales
  • Sol Amarfio – drums, percussion, cowbells, bongos
  • Kofi Ayivor - congas, percussion
  • Kiki Gyan – organ, piano, clavinet, Moog synthesizer, vocals
  • Mike Odumusu – bass guitar, vocals
  • Wendell Richardson – guitar, vocals
  • Jake Solo – guitar on The Coffee Song and The Warrior, violin on Cherryfield
  • Graham Smith – violin on Cherryfield, backing vocals

    • Credits

  • Producer – Gerry Bron
  • Assistant – Teddy Osei
  • Engineer – Ashley Howe
  • Assistants – John Gallen, Mark Deamley, Peter Gallen, Trevor Hallesy
  • Recorded at the Roundhouse Recording Studios London, 1976
  • Photography and artwork concept – Graham Hughes

    • Songs

    1The Coffee Song3:17
    2The Warrior3:45
    3Flying Bird4:50

    References

    Ojah Awake Wikipedia
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