{"product_id":"pat-thomas-pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band","title":"Pat Thomas: Pat Thomas \u0026 Kwashibu Area Band - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePat Thomas \u0026amp; Kwashibu Area Band\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003ePat Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eStrut Records\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e730003312625\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eInternational\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2015-06-16\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eAdditional Details: \u003c\/b\u003eJEWEL CASE PACKAGING\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Strut 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Mewo Akoma \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Gyae Su \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Odoo Be Ba \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Me Ho Asem \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Oye Asem \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Odo Adaada \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Brebrebre \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Amaehu\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pat Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32481164722247,"sku":"28261087","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/2865401.jpg?v=1747396505","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/pat-thomas-pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}