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Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Chris May's Best Releases of 2019

by Chris May
December 7, 2019

The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but the year has been full of uplifting jazz. Here are ten of the best albums--the first seven newly recorded, the final three reissued or recently unearthed. Each one is the coyote's cojones. Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia Ropeadope The eagerly ...

Who is This America?

By Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2010
Track listing: Who is This America Dem Speak of Today?; Pay Back Africa; Indictment; Big Man; Obanla'e; Elephant; Sister; Money Talks.

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra: Who is This America?

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 7, 2010

Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the Tony- nominated musical Fela!, their horn section won a Grammy for their charts on ...

Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1

By Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Label: Ninja Tune
Released: 2002
Track listing: Si, Se Puede; Dirt And Blood; Battle Of The Species; N.E.S.T.A. (Never Ever Submit To Authority); Musicawi Silt; Uprising; El Machete; World War IV.

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra: Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1

by AAJ Staff
November 7, 2002

For those who thought Afrobeat died in the '70s, Antibalas has something else coming. The grooves on Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1 run as deep as anything that ever came out of Lagos. This 13-15 member orchestra, in the grand tradition of Fela Kuti's groups, builds up unfolding trance music by using just about every instrument as ...