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Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit

Smekkleysa — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:10:29 +0000

He Miss Road combines the sound of James Brown-style 70s funk with a stripped down Afrobeat performance. Ginger Baker produced this ethereal, nearly psychedelic album with Tony Allen on drums, backed by Fela?s Africa 70 band. The title track refers to the ways in which people have lost their way ? and the ensuing chaos it causesNigerian police, seeking to put down this independent-minded rascal, tried to plant a joint on Kuti during a gathering at his home. Wise to there plan, he quickly swallowed the joint, but the police then threw him in jail to produce the evidence from his faeces. He escaped charges with some wily plotting, and then produced this song mocking the police for wasting resources on hassling him instead of furthering justice in Nigeria. Opening brass rounds give way to interplay between Fela’s narration about the episode and responses from his group of female singers.

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Sault – Nine

Benedikt Reynisson — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:56:55 +0000

Tracklist

A1 – Haha 0:51
A2 – London Gangs 3:26
A3 – Trap Life 3:03
A4 – Fear 3:30
A5 – Mike’s Story 0:57
A6 – Bitter Streets 4:02
B1 – Alcohol 4:03
B2 – You From London 3:51
B3 – 9 5:14
B4 – Light’s In Your Hands 5:05

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Miriam Makeba – Keep Me In Mind

Benedikt Reynisson — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:48:55 +0000

Definitive edition of classic 1970 album

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Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature

Benedikt Reynisson — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:22:42 +0000

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Sault – UNTITLED (Rise)

Benedikt Reynisson — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:44:43 +0000

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Sault – UNTITLED (Black Is)

Benedikt Reynisson — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:13:30 +0000

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KOKOKO! ‎– Fongola

Benedikt Reynisson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:20:41 +0000

The London based Congolese afrobeat collective.

“If Devo had been upcycling guitars and jamming at block parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, they might have sounded something like K okoko!.” – The Guardian

Tracklist

A
1. Likolo
2. Azo Toke
3. Buka Dansa
4. Identité
5. Malembe
B
1. L.O.V.E.
2. Tongos’a
3. Zala Mayele
4. Singa
5. Kitoko
6. Tokoliana

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