More By Artist: Fela Kuti
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Fela Kuti
Live! With Ginger Baker (50th Anniversary LP Edition) [ Knitting Factory Records / 2 LP - released 18/Mar/2022 ] Limited Edition Red Coloured Vinyl. The 50th-anniversary reissue of Live! is pressed on double red vinyl and features an etching of the album artwork on Side D. Side C features Ginger Baker and Tony Allen's blinding, extended, dual-drums solos... |
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London Scene 50th Anniversary [ Knitting Factory Records / LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ] To understand where Fela's musical quest began, you have to start with his education at London's Trinity College School of Music. While his family had sent him to England to study medicine, Fela had more musical aspirations. After finishing school,... |
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Open & Close (LP) [ Knitting Factory Records / LP - released 27/Aug/2021 ] To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fela Kuti's classic Open & Close, Knitting Factory Records and Cooking Vinyl Australia issue the first vinyl pressing of this album since the 1980s. This edition features a return to the original gatefold jacket... |
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Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition LP) [ Knitting Factory Records / 2 LP - released 19/Aug/2022 ] By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. His audience came from among the region's... |
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Army Arrangement (LP) [ Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Army Arrangement is about Nigeria's attempt at 'democracy' in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule. In 1970, Nigeria emerged from a three-year Biafra civil war with the largest standing army in black Africa, no financial debts - careering... |
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Undergound System (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Fela starts the song in Underground System by saying he had sang songs for great African men: Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana was for him the greatest of all. In the same breath, he had sang songs against African thieves: Olusegun... |
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V.I.P. (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Performed by Fela and his Afrika 70 at the renowned Berlin Jazz Festival in 1978, this live recording of V.I.P. is possibly Fela's most profound vilification of the Nigerian government. In his very public address to the European crowd, Fela explains... |
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Yellow Fever (LP) [ Knitting Factory / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The title track, "Yellow Fever", is a scathing criticism of post-colonial Nigerians who cannot shake their "colonial mentality." Fela rails on women who bleach their skin as an act of beauty, contemptuously adding that, despite what they think, it... |
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The Best of the Black President (Deluxe 2CD + DVD) [ Knitting Factory Records / 3 CD/DVD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
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The Best of the Black President (2CD) [ Knitting Factory Records / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] This fine Fela Kuti collection brings together the most popular songs from the king of Afro-beat. |
