I thought I would love this record...I like it a ton but I was really wanting to be blown away...There are some great grooves and if you are into Afro-Beat you'll dig it but it doesn't forward the genre at all...Maybe it does begin with Fela but it doesn't have to end with him...and the majority of this record consists of 7-minute-plus vamps with 2 minutes of lyrics at the end - the exact conve...
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Antibalas - SecurityAnti- Records, 2007Produced by John McEntire and AntibalasAn important thing to mention - but not an important thing to harp on - is that Brooklyn's Antibalas play music in the Afrobeat genre as pioneered by the late Nigerian legend Fela Kuti and his still-living partner in musical crime (and also Nigerian) Tony Allen. If you know Fela Kuti's music reasonably well, you will ...
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Record release party March 10 at the Warsaw! i wanna go. Let's go. Boop bop boop! Cha cha cha!
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mmmm, can you dig this? I knew you could
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Antibalas - SecurityAnti- Records, 2007Produced by John McEntire and AntibalasAn important thing to mention - but not an important thing to harp on - is that Brooklyn's Antibalas play music in the Afrobeat genre as pioneered by the late Nigerian legend Fela Kuti and his still-living partner in musical crime (and also Nigerian) Tony Allen. If you know Fela Kuti's music reasonably well, you will ...
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If anyone has an MP3 of the version of "Che Che Cole" by Antibalas they can hook me up with I will totally buy you a pony or something. Whatever makes you happy.It's a fantastic song, but it was only released as a 12" single, and as I have no turntable on which to play vinyl and it's sold out (at least directly through Daptone) the only copy of it I have is from the "Ghetto-Funk Power Hour" dis...
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Until I can summon the time I need to really write a post, here's another shameless swipe from Well-Rounded Radio....Brooklyn, New York-based Antibalas is a collective of up to 17 musicians whose origins were in celebrating Afrobeat music, made famous by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in Nigeria in the 1970s. Since their origins in 1998, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra has changed their name to simply An...
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Record release party March 10 at the Warsaw! i wanna go. Let's go. Boop bop boop! Cha cha cha!
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