Osibisa
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Beat The (African) Drums For Osibisa
Profile by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 22 August 1970
IT MAY BE that, having endured the painfully stilted and emotionally lukewarm playing of most rock drummers for the last decade, audiences are waking up ...
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971
AS AUDIENCES get cooler — almost listening to music has now become a kind of intellectual exercise — it is good to see a group ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
PEACE AND brotherhood, truth and happiness. These are words which crop up constantly in conversations with Osibisa, the creeds by which they attempt to live ...
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
OSIBISA – the name is now on the lips of everyone just as we prophesied. The criss-cross rhythms are exploding with happiness right across the ...
Report and Interview by Ian Dove, Billboard, 6 November 1971
THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY LIFT AND HANDLE... ...
Little Feat, Osibisa: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1972
FEW INDEED are the groups whose emergence has been heralded by more glowing reviews than Little Feat. It's my guess, though, that few indeed who ...
The Black-Latin-Jazz-Rock-Vocal Bands
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, Soul Sounds, November 1972
THERE SEEMS to be a definite increase of interest among young Black and Third World musicians, who are either not technically equipped or deeply enough ...
Black 'Woodstock': A Violent Fiasco
Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973
IT COULD have been the biggest event of the summer. For many of us trapped in the iron heart of the city, it promised to ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 February 1974
HAPPY CHILDREN – maybe. Realistic and dedicated musicians – certainly. For beneath the jolly image of Osibisa, there beat sensitive hearts. ...
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975
IT'S JUST ANOTHER of the great Woodstock fallacies. Let's face it, aside from the Who, Havens, and lovable John B. Sebastian it was those nice ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 31 January 1976
Too many holiday brochures getting you down – let some real sun into your home... ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 March 1976
NICE TO SEE Osibisa back in the news and making some chart action after a difficult spell when it seemed they had lost their grip ...
Osibisa: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
ONLY CRITICAL SNOBBERY could deny Osibisa the distinction of having played one of the finest sets I have seen this side of Christmas. On this ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 November 1976
WHEN I sat upon my mother's knee during the years of austerity, being spoon-fed National Health bubble and squeak, and listening to the Light Programme, ...
Lloyd Bradley: Sounds Like London
Book Review by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 9 October 2013
JUST FINISHED a captivating and, to my mind, long-overdue book, which covers the history of black music in the capital spanning (almost) 100 years, the ...
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