RIM AND KASA / RIM AND THE BELIEVERS - TOO TOUGH

Rim an Kasa's, Oakland, CA produced Too Tough EP. Internationally known Ghanaian drummer, Rim Kwaku Obeng was a migrant to Oakland from Begoro, Ghana, where at 26 his traditional drumming skills saw him brought over as a session player for (I believe) a recording Fela was doing in the States. He stayed on in the US and produced a now sought after '77 deep afro disco LP named 'Rim Arrives', that has a track on it named something like 'Brushing Is Making Love' that is highly sweated. He did more session work, then produced this second afro boogie EP as a band leader named 'Too Tough', in 1981 using the name Rim and Kasa on Sum Sum records. I have one more locally produced recording by Rim Obeng, under the band name Rim And The Believers named 'International Funk' from 1986 His most famous and hard hitting track from the Too Tough EP, that has themes of female empowerment and mutual respect between sexes throughout all it's songs, sort of done in a quirky not too preachy super hard disco afro boogie funk sort of way.. "Love Me For Real" http://www.beardodisco.com/beatelectric/music/lovemeforreal.mp3 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.