― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Monday, 2 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 2 January 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Tony Allen's music isn't hard to find and is good for Fela fans.
Various: Nigeria 70. A very good collection. Might be hard to find but worth it.
Afropop.org is a helpful site. Check the section on West Africa: http://www.afropop.org/explore/show_region/ID/1/West%20Africa/
As for East Africa, I can recommend Super Mazembe's Giants of East African compilation on Stern's/Earthworks.
― Glenn, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Fela & His Koola Lobitos -- Highlife Jazz & Afro Soul -- 1963 to 1969 (3CD set)
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― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ben Howell (Ben H), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Saw Fela's youngest son Seun with much of Fela's Egypt 80 12-piece band and two female dancers/backup singers the other night. Whereas Femi adds some programmed beats and r'n'b, Seun merely speeds up the afrobeat tempo a tad, and shortens the songs slightly. Alot of fun although I wish he was not trying so hard to channel Dad--he came out in a bright dress shirt and tight pants that looked like Fela circa the '70s. Later he was shirtless ala Fela with his fist raised high. The band was pretty awesome though.
Seun's new Many Things effort is impressive (but derivative)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean Seun had a 12-piece band and many of them were in Fela's Egypt 80 band.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I just realized yesterday that I missed this show ... I was a very sad guy all afternoon and not because I'm a huge fan, but simply because I was looking forward to seeing "fela". Oh and Afrika Bambaataa!
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
That sounds awesome.
I remember, I saw this Fela Kuti video and I was shocked by how rigid his dancing was.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, a new Africa Scream Contest (Music from Benin and Togo) is a great companion to those Soundway / Strut comps -for those still trying to figure out where to go for African music beyond Fela. Fela is merely the gateway to great unheard music.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Orlando Julius
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^Hell yes.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The Egypt 80 band were great in DC (they were in NY the day before and elsewhere in North America and Europe lately). Fela's bandleader is now on keyboards, and they had a great percussionist on a wood block who was banging out afrobeat clave-style beats. The conga player ocassionally switched to a very large conga drum lying horizontal on the ground that he sat on and banged with sticks. Two awesome guitarists who were not flamboyant at all, just stood there while quickly picking and strumming lots of gorgeous high-pitched afrobeat guitar lines. The four piece horn section (not counting Seun's alto sax) with two trumpets, a baritone sax, & a regular sax, boomed in and out, and ocassionally they all got to solo. Not to mention the shakere gourd player, the trap drummer, the bassist, and the women dancer/singers. Seun's alto-sax solos weren't bad either. Yea, there's nothing new about highlife meets jazz meets James Brown afrobeat in 2008, but it still sounded nice. It brought back memories of when I saw Fela in DC way back when.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I was busy hanging out with my sick friend and only made it at the end, when there was a long line to get in - he sounded grebt
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
this is awesome: http://www.amazon.com/Afro-Rock-Vol-1-Various-Artists/dp/B0000641BQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1215635632&sr=8-1
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i still bump seun kuti's "many things", probably more than anything that came out in '08 except for rebirth brass band.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Both Seun and Femi Kuti put on awesome live shows. But I still think Tony Allen's albums are superior. The latest:
Tony Allen - Secret Agent (World Circuit) 09
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't even know about that, thx.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like it's not easily available (legally) in the u.s. yet, unfort
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so great to watch him play, such a light touch
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I got it via that link at CD Wow US - $17, no tax or postage is not bad.
Review: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UzIGdFZOgU&feature=player_embedded
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
tracks on his myspace sound good, if mellow. love the intensity of the horn section, tempos, and vocals on that seun disc. of course it would be better if tony was on drums.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTeZNuvlxzU&feature=related
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link