Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
| Our Garden Needs Its Flowers | ||||
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Cover to the 2018 re-release | ||||
| Studio album by Jess Sah Bi and Peter One | ||||
| Released | 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Studio | JBZ Recording Studio, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire | |||
| Genre | Folk music | |||
| Length | 30:29 | |||
| Language | English, French, Guro | |||
| Label | Dedjay Broadcasting System | |||
| Producer | Etienne Theo | |||
| Jess Sah Bi and Peter One chronology | ||||
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“It was an eight-track studio. At that time it was one of the best ones in Abidjan. Compared to what we could find in Europe and other big countries, it was really average. The musicians, all of them are African and most of them Ivorian, from the Ivory Coast, and one from Cameroon, the bass player. The musicians got the feeling very quickly.”
—Peter One on the recording process for Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers is the debut album by Ivorian folk musicians Jess Sah Bi and Peter One, released in 1985. After some success in Côte d'Ivoire, One moved to America to capitalize on this, but struggled to make a career until a 2018 re-release of this album led to his follow-up, Come Back to Me in 2023. The album has received positive reviews.