Several years after recording the 1985 cult classic Our Garden Needs Its Flowers with Peter One, Ivorian folk musician Jess Sah Bi had a brush with death, falling severely ill with an unknown ailment that mystified doctors and religious healers alike. Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas was released in 1991 and sold around 3000 cassettes in the Ivory Coast before the master tapes were lost. Now, the great Awesome Tapes From Africa, which also brought the aforementioned Our Garden Needs Its Flowers to a whole new generation of listeners across the world, has resurrected Sah Bi’s document of . . .
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