{"product_id":"anbessa","title":"Anbessa","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn December 2013, during Alain Pilot's show “La Bande Passante” and as part of the celebrations for Manu Dibango’s 80th birthday, Radio France Internationale gathered around the African master a bunch of prestigious guests including the Ethio- Jazz ambassadors : Akalé Wubé. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band decided to play live and on air African Pop Session and Ekedi - both written and recorded by the Cameroonian saxophonist in the early seventies - quickly joined by Manu Dibango and his saxophone. Two live recordings of this session will be taken out this pathbreaking and improvised meeting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA great complicity shortly settled between them and, a few months later, Akalé Wubé invited Manu Dibango on their track Anbessa (The Lion in Amharic) composed as a tribute to him. This collaboration led them to share several stages together in the following years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this RFI session still in mind, Manu Dibango invited the band to join him in studio for Akalé Wubé to arrange and re-record 5 other unknown nuggets from his catalogue : La Colère des Dieux, Du Bush a Bush, Gentlemen de Camp Yabassi, Otetena Munja and Peaceful Homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, The Lion won’t make it to the Parisian band’s studio to record his last solos, fate decided otherwise... Akalé Wubé decides to pay a strong and sincere tribute to this friendship through out the album Anbessa - gathering the entire tracks written for or by Manu Dibango and played by the band - in a special LP.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soul Makossa","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50504341520715,"sku":"1160523","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3a0e1c9b-b7f5-4d16-9a41-8ca30afcb6d3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727803989","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/anbessa","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}