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Coffin For Head Of State
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Coffin For Head Of State.
Original Sufferhead
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Original Sufferhead; Power Show.
Army Arrangement
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Army Arrangement; Government Chicken Boy.
Yellow Fever
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2023
Track listing: Yellow Fever; Na Poi.
Fela Kuti: Coffin For Head Of State
by Chris May
From the late 1970s onward, Fela's lyrics became longer, more complex and ever more confrontational. Coffin For Head Of State, first released on Kalakuta in 1981, is an outstanding example. It is one of several albums on which Fela responded to the Nigerian army's destruction of his Kalakuta Republic compound on 18 February 1977, and focuses ...
Fela Kuti: Yellow Fever
by Chris May
Yellow Fever was originally released in 1976 on Decca's West African imprint, Afrodisia, and both its tracks were hugely controversial in Nigeria. The title track is one of Fela's greatest masterpieces. Sung in Broken English, the language Fela adopted in order to make his words understood beyond Yoruba speakers, the lyrics rail against women's use of ...
Fela Kuti: Army Arrangement
by Chris May
Fela only occasionally used outside producers on his albums. Mostly, the results were good: EMI producer Jeff Jarratt's Afrodisiac (EMI, 1973), British dub master Dennis Bovell's Live In Amsterdam (Polygram, 1983) and keyboard player Wally Badarou's exceptional Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (Philips, 1986). But on one occasion it was spectacularly bad: avant-funk bassist Bill Laswell's ...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Original Sufferhead
by Chris May
Original Sufferhead was the first album Fela released under Egypt 80's name, having disbanded Afrika 70 in 1979; the only musician held over was baritone saxophonist Lekan Animashaun, who had been with Fela since 1965 and who took over from the departing Tony Allen as bandleader. The album was recorded in early 1981, ...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Perambulator
by Chris May
Until now one of the lost treasures of Fela's recorded legacy, the history of Perambulator is as arcane as the sleeve credit to Egypt 80 on the Lagos International label's original release is misleading. Far from being recorded by Egypt 80 in 1983, as claimed by Lagos International, both tracks were actually recorded by Afrika 70 ...
Perambulator
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2020
Track listing: Perambulator; Frustration.
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