Y-BAYANI & BABY NAA And The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love - Nsie Nsie

12" VINYL LP Shortly after Philophon’s head honcho Max Weissenfeldt and Stibbo Spitzmüller opened their studio in Berlin in 2012, Max invited his old friend and fellow drummer Josie Coppola (already part of Germany’s most famous reggae act, Gentleman) to record some roots reggae. Fast forward to 2014, Max is traveling to Ghana, carrying with him those recordings. At that time he was hanging with Jimmy Taylor - the son of Ghanaian Highlife legend Ebo Taylor. It was during a session at Jimmy’s studio at Saltpond, that Max serendipitously met Y-Bayani. Jimmy played to Max a friend’s Afropop song he just worked on. Max heard something special in that song and asked the guy, called Yusef Hussain (who later became Y-Bayani - spelled Why-Bayani), if he liked to try a reggae version of it. That was the first song Yusef had ever written. The recording with Max was the birth of ‘Asembi Ara Amba’, which was later on included on the Polyversal Souls debut album, Invisible Joy“ (Philophon, 2015)