Fela Kuti - The Best Best of Fela Kuti
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Artist: Fela KutiEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Lady
- Shakara
- Gentleman [Edit Version]
- Water No Get Enemy [Edit Version]
- Zombie
- Sorrow Tears & Blood
- No Agreement, Pt. 2
- Roforofo Fight
- Shuffering and Shmiling, Pt. 2
- Coffin for Head of State, Pt. 2
- I T T, Pt. 2
- Army Arrangement, Pt. 2
- O.D.O.O. [Edit Version]
Music reviews of The Best Best of Fela Kuti
Music Review: The real deal - not "STANDARD afro-pop stuff" - what fool wrote that ???
Rating: 5 Stars
Fela IS on par with Marley, James Brown, Coltrane, and the other masters. One of the best 'best-of' compilations out there. You found this page -- just buy it and see why the consensus gives this 5-stars, then you'll want the rest...
Description of The Best Best of Fela Kuti
There is nothing subtle in the roiling Afro-funk of the late, great Fela Kuti. His twitchy, stomping rhythms are up in your face, his brass section sounds ready to skirmish with the JB Horns, and his confrontational, politically charged lyrics make modern punk or hip-hop sound like parlor chatter. This phenomenal collection from an artist easily the equal of Marley, Hendrix, or Dylan is nothing less than essential. --S. DudaPolitical activist, outspoken radical, and inventor of Afro-beat, Fela Anikulapo ("he who carries death in his pouch") Kuti left behind him an incomparable legacy of music when he died in 1997. His struggles against the Nigerian state became the stuff of legend in his home country; his denunciations of world leaders such as Reagan and Thatcher gained him notoriety abroad. But his music remains as his supreme achievement over and above the details of his amazingly courageous life, even if many (most) of his lyrics are angry condemnations of politicians. His vast output of recordings can hardly be distilled onto two discs, but Black President (named after a classic 1981 album) is nevertheless a good introduction to this extraordinary man and his music. The album lacks any personnel details and fails to indicate the origins of each track, but it scarcely matters: Fela's band, Africa 70, was a large and always flexible group (it rarely actually boasted 70 members), with the only constant presence being his 30 backing singers, most of whom were also his wives! Throughout, the beats are solid, the solos are never overpowering, and the rhythm--the powerful, hypnotic rhythm--is always preeminent. If, in the end, it's impossible to divorce Fela Kuti's music from his life, it is at least a real pleasure just to play this album and let his grooves possess your spirit. --Mark Walker
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