{"id":15839,"date":"2021-02-24T18:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=15839"},"modified":"2022-02-19T02:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:08:46","slug":"vis-a-vis-obi-agye-me-dofo-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/vis-a-vis-obi-agye-me-dofo-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vis-A-Vis &#8211; Obi Agye Me Dofo &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, <strong>Vis-A-Vis<\/strong> released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, of which \u201c<strong>Obi Agye Me Dofo<\/strong>\u201d remains the most sought after. Led by vocalist Isaac \u201cSuperstar\u201d Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson \u201cShaolin Kung-Fu\u201d Papra on drums, <strong>Vis-A-Vis<\/strong> helped propel K. Frimpong to fame as one of Ghana\u2019s most popular stars of the 1970s. On some of Frimpong\u2019s albums, they also overlapped as part of his other recording band, the Cubano Fiestas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Obi Agye Me Dofo<\/strong>\u201d\u2019s iconic title track, with its lilting Afrobeat groove embellished by jazz horns, cosmic synth keys and wandering guitar solo, is very much in the mold of Frimpong\u2019s big hits. The eight-minute Kankyema shows how Vis-A-Vis could lock into a propelling funk groove with Superstar Yeboah\u2019s soulful vocals riding on top, whilst, across side two, Vis-A-Vis display themselves as masters of a spiralling, hypnotic Highlife.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>We Are Busy Bodies <\/strong>begins its roll out the <strong>Vis-A-Vis<\/strong> catalogue, it will also simultaneously release another essential album by the group, 1976s Odo Gu Ahorow. Original copies of both LPs are scarce and in great demand, with \u201c<strong>Obi Agye Me Dofo<\/strong>\u201d briefly issued as an LP in the US in 1980, and again in 2011 by Continental Records. Along with the Frimpong albums, they remain some of the most sought after West African records from the golden age. These reissues have been handled with the utmost respect \u2014 every detail has been given strict attention and care, with albums being remastered by Senior Mastering Engineer, Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Are Busy Bodies<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We Are Busy Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, <strong>Vis-A-Vis<\/strong> released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, of which \u201c<strong>Obi Agye Me Dofo<\/strong>\u201d remains the most sought after. Led by vocalist Isaac \u201cSuperstar\u201d Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson \u201cShaolin Kung-Fu\u201d Papra on drums, <strong>Vis-A-Vis<\/strong> helped propel K. Frimpong to fame as one of Ghana\u2019s most popular stars of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>We Are Busy Bodies<\/strong> repress!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"See the Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_krIAZ-JdU5oKLyoXw0-WoyN45N0bYPzeM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[3693,3692],"class_list":{"0":"post-15839","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-vis-a-vis","7":"product_tag-we-are-busy-bodies","8":"product_shipping_class-lp","9":"pa_artist-vis-a-vis","10":"pa_genre-afro-beat","11":"pa_genre-highlife","12":"pa_label-we-are-busy-bodies","14":"first","15":"outofstock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}