Name: Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
Brand: Jess Sah Bi and Peter One

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Bonus disc: No

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atfa033cd

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Extended format: No

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Digipack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0843563102442

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

atfa033lp

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Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

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0843563102459

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jess Sah Bi and Peter One

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Awesome Tapes From Africa

Awesome Tapes From Africa is a record label that was founded by [a3963487], who developed a deep love for the cassette culture of West Africa while on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana. Inspired by the diverse genres and unique sounds found in recordings from this region, Shimkovitz started a blog and record label to share his passion for this music with the world. Much of the music released by Awesome Tapes From Africa remains undiscovered outside of West Africa, making it an invaluable resource for exploring and appreciating the rich musical heritage of this vibrant part of the world.

In the 1980s, Abidjan's Jess Sah Bi and Peter One became one of the most popular musical acts in not just the Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), but broader West Africa, eventually performing with a full band to stadium-sized audiences at home and throughout Benin, Guinea, Mali and Togo. Although they'd been popular radio and television performers for several years prior, the catalyst for Jess and Peter achieving this new level of stardom was their debut album, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers, recorded and released in 1985. In contrast with the heaving funk, disco and reggae sounds of the day, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers was a lush fusion of traditional Ivorian village songs and American and English country and folk-rock music. Jess and Peter sang in French, English and Gouro, delivering beautifully harmonized meditations on social injustice and inequality, calls for unity across the African continent, an end to apartheid in South Africa and the odd song for the ladies, all set against lush guitar riffs, rustic harmonica and rollicking feel-good rhythms. Surprisingly, it's the first time the album has been re-released in a high-fidelity, legally licensed form.

LP - Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Our Garden Needs Its Flowers

Music GB