Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close
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Artist: Fela KutiEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-12-25
Music Label: Wrasse Records/Universal
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Music Review: 70's killers from Fela !!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
A great double-length package that features two rare albums! Alagbon Close is a lesser-known 70s session from Fela -- but a great one too, and a record that captures the Africa 70 group at all their early raw best! The album's 2 tracks are both very long -- stretching for a side of the record apiece -- and the title track "Alagbon Close" features some amazing keyboard lines on the intro, all tinny and thin -- and done with this other-worldly almost Sun Ra-like quality! The other tune, "I Get No Eye For Back", also has some amazing electric piano too -- but intertwined with some very strong horn work from the group! Why Black Men Dey Suffer is a smoking lost Afrobeat LP! According to the notes EMI turned this album down when it was recorded in 1971, and we can't imagine what they were thinking. Two lengthy tracks that follow in the Fela template, the awesome title track rolling along at a nice laid back tempo with a prominent Rhodes part keeping the intro moving before the beat drops and the horns come in, while the second number "Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality" picks up the pace a bit, though there's still room for the syncopated percussion, crisp guitar and electric piano chords and bold horn lines to breathe, so they can mesh into an unstoppable groove!
1. Alagbon Close 17'00
2. I No Get Eye For Back 11'22
3. Why Black Men Dey Suffer 15'09
4. Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality 13'01
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