Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Joe Zawinul – Rhodes piano, acoustic piano, melodica, oud, xylophone, mzuthra, West African talking drum, steel drums, ARP 2600 synthesizer, TONTO synthesizer, organ, cymbals and vocals
Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
Leon “Ndugu” Chancler – drums, tympani and marching cymbals
Alyrio Lima – percussion
The song was written and composed by Joe Zawinul. Produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, engineered by Bruce Botnick at Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles.
Note: “Badia” is one of the most distinctly world music-flavoured pieces in the Weather Report catalogue, notable for the absence of Wayne Shorter — who does not appear on this track — and for Zawinul’s extraordinary array of instruments including the oud, mzuthra and West African talking drum, foreshadowing the world music movement that would emerge over a decade later.
Weather Report – Badia Lyrics
(This piece by Weather Report is fully instrumental, and therefore doesn’t have any lyrics)
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