Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
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Strut are proud to announce the brand new studio album by one of Ghana's all-time great vocalists, 'The Golden Voice Of Africa', Pat Thomas, in conjunction with the Kwashibu Area Band led by multi-instrumentalist Kwame Yeboah (Cat Stevens, Patrice) and saxophonist Ben Abarbanel-Wolff (Ebo Taylor, Poets of Rhythm). Hailing from Kumasi, Thomas had lived with highlife legend King Onyina from a young age before working with Ebo Taylor in two of Ghana's great 1960s highlife big bands, Broadway Dance Band and Stargazers. They would collaborate regularly, Pat contributing vocals to Ebo's solo albums and Ebo arranging horns for Pat's songs. Both would become a mainstay of the '70s and '80s Ghanaian highlife, afrobeat and afro-pop scenes, hitting big with the Ghana Cocoa Board-sponsored Sweet Beans band. Fela Kuti's bandleader, drummer Tony Allen, would record a session with Sweet Beans in Kumasi in 1975 (as yet unreleased).
Tracks
1~1~Mewo Akoma1~2~Gyae Su
1~3~Odoo Be Ba
1~4~Me Ho Asem
1~5~Oye Asem
1~6~Odo Adaada
1~7~Brebrebre
1~8~Amaehu
Details
Format: Vinyl LPArtist: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Release Date: 01 June 2015
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: STRUT
Distributor: Rocket Group
