Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band 'Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band' Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet we became powerful and began

we became powerful and began gigging around the Bay Area

It begins gently with 'Lanquidity

Barry Dean on bass and Robbie McIntosh on drums and percussion

Their popularity began to wane during the mid-‘80s until

The message of the album remains as relevant today as ever

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band 'Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band' Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet we became powerful and beganThe brand new studio album by one of Ghanas all time great vocalists, The Golden Voice Of Africa, Pat Thomas, in conjunction with the Kwashibu Area Band led by multi instumentalist 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 Ghanas great 1960s highlife big bands,