Fela 45 Alert
If you don’t know about Fela Kuti, and like music at all, then the wonderful blog Funky 16 Corners has a post with background information and a scratchy mp3 from a Kuti 45 that I’d never seen before. (Fela’s songs tended to be about twenty minutes long–the side of an LP, pretty much–and a 45 is pretty mindblowing.) 1970s Afrobeat; imagine a marching band conducted by James Brown singing Yoruba-language funk in Lagos, Nigeria, and you get the general idea. Where does F16c’s Grogan get such lovely records?
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November 22nd, 2006 at 5:44 pm
You’re way beyond me here. I guess I’ll have to stick with the Boyoyo Boys.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.