Beckie Bell - In Need Of... Indian Ocean in October 1977 and featuring

in October 1977 and featuring musicians from Oneness alongside Gil Scott Heron cohort Brian Jackson on piano

Strut’s reissue features the complete original artwork

This new album

and many others

whose repertoire of Arabic-language praise songs contains remnants of West African dialects – Bambara from Mali

Beckie Bell - In Need Of... Indian Ocean in October 1977 and featuringStrut proudly reintroduces a sought after independent disco gem from the Topomic catalogue: Beckie Bells In Need Of, reissued in full for the first time. Originally released in 1980, In Need Of quickly became a cult classic of the French disco scene. After relocating from New York to Paris in the late 1970s, Bell carved out a unique space for her sound, blending the soulfulness of New York disco with the high energy sophistication of the European