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

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ATFA033lp

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563102459

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

ATFA033cd

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843563102442

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

Artist

Jess Sah Bi and Peter One

Genre US

African

Label US

Awesome Tapes From Africa

Jess Sah Bi and Peter One's album <i>Our Garden Needs Its Flowers</i>. Available here on LP and CD.

In the 1980s, Abidjan's Jess Sah Bi &amp; 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.

Our Garden Needs Its Flowers

Music US