'' The Very Best of Osibisa'' is a 3-CD set unauthorised compilation bringing together three

Osibisa Osibisa is a Ghanaian-Caribbean Afro rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London-based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa was the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in ...

's albums: ''Welcome Home'', ''Ojah Awake'' and ''Africa We Go Go'', released in 2001 by

Prestige Records Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz music ...

under catalog #205886-349. ''Do not confuse with other compilations released under the same name, such as "The Very Best of Osibisa" released in 2009 by Golden Stool label''.

Track listing

CD 1: 40:41 #"Sunshine Day" - 5:00 #"Welcome Home" - 4:18 #"Densu" - 5:22 #"Choboi" - 5:08 #"Do It" - 4:24 #"Right Now" - 3:11 #"Seaside Meditation" - 5:17 #"Uhuru" - 3:27 #"Kolomashie" - 4:34 CD 2: 40:32 #"Coffee Song" - 3:15 #"The Warrior" - 3:45 #"Flying Bird" - 4:49 #"Cherry Field" - 4:27 #"Dance The Body Music" - 3:49 #"Ojah Awake" - 4:56 #"Keep On Trying" - 5:26 #"Hamattan" - 6:06 #"Sakabo" - 3:59 CD 3: 41:47 #"Time Is Right" - 5:32 #"Get Up" - 5:22 #"Gumbe" - 4:46 #"Soldier" - 3:29 #"Jumbo" - 1:36 #"Abele" - 3:55 #"Kyrie Eleison" - 6:24 #"Africa We Go Go" - 4:16 #"Lost Fisherman" - 2:35 #"Sakura" - 3:52

Credits

*This compilation ℗ 2001 Musicline S.R.O and Copyright © JM Sontel AG, Gisikon, Switzerland licensed by Prestige Records Ltd., London, England. *Distributed by TIM - The International Music Company AG, Hamburg, Germany. *Artwork by D&H Hommage GmbH.

References

*All information gathered from back cover 3-CD set compilation released in 2001 by Musicline S.R.O. {{DEFAULTSORT:Very Best Of Osibisa 2001 compilation albums Osibisa albums Prestige Records compilation albums