{"product_id":"pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band-pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band","title":"Pat Thomas \u0026 Kwashibu Area Band- Pat Thomas \u0026 Kwashibu Area Band (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrut 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMewo Akoma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGyae Su\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOdoo Be Ba\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMe Ho Asem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOye Asem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOdo Adaada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrebrebre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmaehu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 730003312625\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Strut Records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47541425406173,"sku":"730003312625","price":117.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2865401.jpg?v=1772600360","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band-pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}