AFRICAN FLIGHT

Osibisa

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Jazz Rock/Fusion

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Studio Album, released in 1981

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Time Is Right (5:30)
2. Get Up (5:20)
3. Gumbe (4:44)
4. Soldier Boy (3:29)
5. Jumbo (1:36)
6. Abele (3:53)
7. Kyrie Eleison (6:22)
8. We Gogo (4:15)
9. Lost Fisherman (3:54)
10. Sakura (2:35)

Total Time 39:38

Bonus tracks on 2002 expanded reissue:
11. Moving On (5:38)
12. Get Up 2 (1983 Remake Mix) (5:23)
13. Celebration (4:18)
14. Malaika (4:24)
15. Jumbo Soweto (New Mix) (3:39)
16. Wango Wango (Alternate Mix) (3:21)
17. Agoro (Alternate Mix) (3:55)
18. Sosomilaso (Alternate Mix) (3:09)
19. Mentumi (Alternate Mix) (3:45)

Line-up / Musicians

- Alfred Kari Bannerman / lead & acoustic guitars
- Emmanuel Rentzos / keyboards, vocals (2,7)
- Teddy Osei / tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, African drums, vocals
- Mac Tontoh / trumpet, flugelhorn, cabasa, marimba, timbales, vocals
- Jean-Karl Dikoto Mandengue / bass
- Sol Amarfio / drums, bongos, bells, talking drum, vocals

Releases information

Recorded in 1979

LP CBS (1981, UK)

CD Aim Records - AIM1057CD (1995, Australia)
CD Red Steel - RMCCD9226 (2002, UK) Retitled "African Dawn, African Flight" with 9 bonus tracks, intended (but at the time unfinished) to be the follow-up album to "African Flight"

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and to Quinino for the last updates
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