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Part 8 - Knitting Factory rolls out Fela Kuti reissue program (continued)
by Chris May
Part 7 of The Afrobeat Diaries reviewed the first three discs in Knitting Factory's launch batch of Fela Kuti reissues, the six-disc “Chop 'N' Quench" batch. The first three discs span the years 1964-72, and follow Kuti's music as it evolved from the highlife-jazz hybrid of the mid 1960s to the almost fully formed Afrobeat of ...
Part 7 - Knitting Factory rolls out Fela Kuti reissue program
by Chris May
Following the release of its The Best Of The Black President sampler in November 2009, New York's Knitting Factory has cut to the main event in its Fela Kuti reissue program. The label, which is scheduled to release all of Kuti's albums during 2010, put out the first batch of six discs in February. Titled the ...
Part 6 - Brooklyn's Akoya Afrobeat
by Chris May
Akoya AfrobeatP.D.P. President Dey PassAfrobomb Music2008 Among the spin-off benefits which are following the success of the hit Broadway musical Fela!, and the attendant media interest in Afrobeat, is the revitalization of the Brooklyn band Akoya Afrobeat. Formed in 2002, Akoya was off radar for much of ...
Secret Agent
By Tony Allen
Label: Curly Music Productions
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Secret Agent; 02 Ljo; 03. Switch; 04. Celebrate; 05. Ayenlo; 06. Busybody; 07. Pariwo; 08. Nina Lowo; 09. Atuwaba;
10. Alutere; 11. Elewon Po.
Part 5 - Revival & Revolution
by Chris May
Various ArtistsAfrobeat RevivalRough Guide2009 When Fela Kuti died in 1997, it seemed, for a while, as though Afrobeat might have died with him. So colossal was Kuti's role in the music, and so few were the young pretenders to his throne, that the vacuum left by his ...
Part 1 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70: Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer
by Chris May
This is the first in a series of articles which will chronicle significant recordings, people and events in the story of Afrobeat, from its inception until the present day. First up, Alagbon Close by Fela Ransome Kuti (as he then was) and Africa 70 (as it then was), the 1974 album which marked ...
Tony Allen: Secret Agent
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per quanto già prevedibile nei suoi contenuti, non c'è niente da fare: ogni nuovo lavoro della macchina da ritmo dell'Afrobeat per eccellenza [15 anni dietro i tamburi di Fela Kuti, che senza di lui sosteneva non esistesse nemmeno l'Afrobeat, sono un lasciapassare per l'eternità], Tony Allen, è un gran bel sentire! L'ultimo, registrato a Lagos e ...
Tony Allen: Secret Agent
by Chris May
Tony Allen Secret Agent World Circuit 2009 It's been a good six months for Afrobeat, the turbulent jazz meets funk meets West African roots music associated with the Nigerian singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938 - 1997) and his bands Afrika 70 and Egypt 80. There have been cracking ...
