Afrobeat/ Fela Kuti (1 Viewer)

[Jasper]

It's about time i started listening to some Afrobeat. Anyone got any recommendations? Any Fela Kuti albums in particular?

 

[shitepipe]

Expensive Shit/He Miss Road album is the shizzle, especially Water Got No Enemy- what a song.

Zombie, Rotorofo Flight also pretty good. lots to pick from...

 

[simp]

Check out this site for all manner of contemporary African cassette tape wonderfulness:-
http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/
(I recommend the Snr Eddie Donkor and the Umaru Sanda for starters)

Also - for Fela - sign up for a trial account with eMusic and you'll be able to download several albums from your free tracks - loooong tracks on those albums!
http://www.emusic.com/artist/Fela-Kuti-MP3-Download/10560102.html

 

[Jasper]

Cheers for the tips. I've had a listen to Expensive Shit and it's incredible. Downloading from awesome tapes as we speak.

 

[coast to coast]

Rotorofo Flight

Choooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!!!

 

[simp]

http://hypem.com/search/fela kuti/1/

 

[oh shit]

savage record

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good comp

 

[simp]

Crucial:-

Various Artists
Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues
http://www.emusic.com/album/Various...fe-Afro-sounds-amp-MP3-Download/11178061.html

 

[hugh]

Fela is amazing .. I think more or less anything from the 70s/80s will satisfy you like you have never been satisfied before. There's a great 2CD Best-Of you can get also called "Black President". It's not to be sniffed at though the tracks are edited down in places ....

What I like doing when listening is to check out what the second guitar player is doing. It's almost always some deadly little 3/4 note lick that goes on for about 10 minutes all the way through the track. That guitar player must have been a happy man. As much smoke and women as he could possibly handle, all he has to do is these little repetitive riffs, and at the same time he get's to play in one of the best bands in the world, night after night. It surely doesn't get much better than that, does it?

 

[Wobbler]

A lad I know put this up a few days ago. It's good stuff http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/167803

I bought an excellent compilation called Afro Rock a few years back.

 

[Lillian]

The documentary about Fela Kuti, Music is the Weapon, is definitely worth a watch.
Caught Femi Kuti a few years back at Glastonbury, hes well and truely following in his da's footstep, he had his son up there playing sax too.

 

[shidheat]

i second that expensive shit/he miss road cd recommendation. it's the best thing i've heard by fela

 

[simp]

By the way - Zim musician Alick Macheso is playing the Button Factory on Saturday.
YouTube - Alick Macheso-Live on Stage[PART 1]-www.zimvibes.com
http://ww2.buttonfactory.ie/profile.php?ID=1715

 

[ron]

Saw Seun Kuti & Egypt 90 last w-end at WOMAD

Twas rockin

 

[hugh]

By the way - Zim musician Alick Macheso is playing the Button Factory on Saturday.

Nice one. Sounds great ...

 

[ernesto]

i still listen to that on a regular basis. awesome compilation

 

[ernesto]

i still listen to that on a regular basis. awesome compilation

the compilation wobbler mentioned i meant

 

[Lillian]

Seun Kuti's playing in The Village on the 2 of October.
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1080&Itemid=26

 

[Wobbler]

Never heard of him. Any use?

 

[nEiLo]

King Sunny Ade - "Juju Music" is great too