Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-rock band founded in
London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based
Caribbean musicians. Woyaya was their 2nd LP. The Flying Elephants created by Roger Dean became the symbol for the band.
The BIG 'O' publishing
company burst upon the swinging London art and music scene
during those wild and wonderful psychedelic
60s and throughout the 1970s
up until 1980. This poster, calendar, art card and book publishing
company produced some of the most amazing and influential fantasy and
fantastic album cover art of all time during the 20th Centuries
Golden Age of Poster Art. These are the artists you have grown to admire
and love over the years; among them are "Alien" Academy award winning
artist HR Giger, also included is perhaps the most recognized album
cover artist and creative illustrator over the past 50 years, Roger
Dean, and J.R.R. Tolkein and Michael Moorcock fantasy art great Rodney
Mathews, as well as David Bowie album cover artist Terry Pastor and the
wonderful fantasy children's book illustrator paintings of Wayne
Anderson. These are but a few of the uniquely talented artists who contributed to some of
the most fantastic poster and album cover art of the 1960's & 70's
and beyond. From the psychedelic Jimi Hendrix color explosion posters of
artist Martin Sharp, to the fantastical beautiful worlds of the YES and ASIA album cover posters of artist Roger Dean, through the Alien
landscapes of H.R. Giger, from the luminous visionary dreams of artist
Robert Venosa, and artist Mati Klarwein, to the magical fantasy
landscapes of artist Michael Fishel, BIG 'O' was there with the Big,
Bigger, The Biggest O!
For more on BIG 'O' see unicorngarden.com/illustration01.pdf