Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers Rim Arrives / International Funk

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Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Gas Line
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Believe In Yourself
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Sunkwa (Life First)
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Brushing Means Making Love
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Nothing Is Free
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – Spend Your Money
Rim Kwaku Obeng / Rim and The Believers – International Funk

1. Gas Line
2. Believe In Yourself
3. Sunkwa (Life First)
4. Funky Drummer
5. Brushing Means Making Love
6. Nothing Is Free
7. Spend Your Money
8. International Funk
9. International Funk (Instrumental)

Serious afro-disco heat! Super rare Ghanian private press album reissued by BBE!

Rim was a member of one of Ghana's most-famous bands, The Uhuru Dance Band, here with his debut sought-after solo offering which includes the in-demand 12" "International Funk" - bomb!

Tight horn riffs, Fela-style call and response vocals, and funky-as-hell driving afro-disco rhythm!

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– We Are The Ones
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1. – We Are The Ones
3. – Fire
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1. – C'est Cette Comète
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– Introduction & Lost My Love
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1. – Introduction & Lost My Love
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1. – Rainbow Children
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1. – Get It Up For Love
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1. Rim and Kasa – Shine The Ladies
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Now-Again Records has enjoyed a long and creative partnership with Munich-based multi-instrumentalist JJ Whitefield, creative force behind the Poets of...

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Amazing, super-funky album supervised by Charles Stepney with the classic trio line-up of bassist Cleveland Eaton and EWF's Maurice White on drums! Includes...