Fela Kuti - London Scene - VINYL LP
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180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Fela's London Scene, released in 1972, is a top-notch affair, made with a smaller band but one that punches above it's weight. There is no tenor guitarist and no call-and-response choir, though sing-along vocals are a feature of InchEgbe Mi OInch (Inchplease carry meInch). Throughout, Fela's electric piano is gym ripped and razor sharp, and Igo Chico turns in three stirring tenor solos. InchBuy Africa,Inch written in 1970, was one of Fela's first politically-informed songs. The lyric was written in support of a government campaign to encourage local industry. InchJ'Ehin J'EhinInch (Incheat teeth eat teethInch) is along similar lyric lines as InchShakara.Inch This time Fela is lampooning people who are so greedy that they eat their own teeth. In InchWho're You,Inch Fela channels James Brown's vocal style over an angular funk groove. InchFight To FinishInch draws on Yoruba folklore to offer advice once you have started something, be prepared to finish it.
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- GenreForeignDescription180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Fela's London Scene, released in 1972, is a top-notch affair, made with a smaller band but one that punches above it's weight. There is no tenor guitarist and no call-and-response choir, though sing-along vocals are a feature of InchEgbe Mi OInch (Inchplease carry meInch). Throughout, Fela's electric piano is gym ripped and razor sharp, and Igo Chico turns in three stirring tenor solos. InchBuy Africa,Inch written in 1970, was one of Fela's first politically-informed songs. The lyric was written in support of a government campaign to encourage local industry. InchJ'Ehin J'EhinInch (Incheat teeth eat teethInch) is along similar lyric lines as InchShakara.Inch This time Fela is lampooning people who are so greedy that they eat their own teeth. In InchWho're You,Inch Fela channels James Brown's vocal style over an angular funk groove. InchFight To FinishInch draws on Yoruba folklore to offer advice once you have started something, be prepared to finish it.ArtistFela KutiTitleLondon SceneFormatVINYLLabelPartisan Records
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180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Fela's London Scene, released in 1972, is a top-notch affair, made with a smaller band but one that punches above it's weight. There is no tenor guitarist and no call-and-response choir, though sing-along vocals are a feature of InchEgbe Mi OInch (Inchplease carry meInch). Throughout, Fela's electric piano is gym ripped and razor sharp, and Igo Chico turns in three stirring tenor solos. InchBuy Africa,Inch written in 1970, was one of Fela's first politically-informed songs. The lyric was written in support of a government campaign to encourage local industry. InchJ'Ehin J'EhinInch (Incheat teeth eat teethInch) is along similar lyric lines as InchShakara.Inch This time Fela is lampooning people who are so greedy that they eat their own teeth. In InchWho're You,Inch Fela channels James Brown's vocal style over an angular funk groove. InchFight To FinishInch draws on Yoruba folklore to offer advice once you have started something, be prepared to finish it.
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Alagbon Close was named after the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department in Lagos. It was where Fela was detained after the 2nd raid on his home failed to find anything incriminating. The title track calls out the Nigerian police's violence, arrogance and apparent immunity from prosecution. Alagbon Close was also the first of Fela's albums to have a sleeve designed by Ghariokwu Lemi, whose artwork became an integral part of Afrobeat's message. To mark it's 50th anniversary, the album is presented on Jollof orange color vinyl in a single pocket, wide-spine jacket with gold foil OBI strip.
Vinyl LP pressing includes . Everything Scatter, originally released in 1975, is one of several masterpieces from early in Fela's mid-1970s purple period. In three extraordinarily productive years, Fela released 20 some albums of new material. The purple period continued up to and immediately beyond the Nigerian army attack of February 1977 which destroyed Fela's self-governing commune, Kalakuta Republic. By the time Everything Scatter was recorded, Fela had put all Afrobeat's key elements in place the signature rhythms he had developed with drummer Tony Allen; edgy, jousting tenor and rhythm guitars; call and response vocals; fat horn arrangements and extended, jazz-based horn and keyboard solos; politically confrontational lyrics; and, crucially, the Broken English Fela adopted to take his message beyond Yoruba speakers.
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