You may remember ?uestlove's now legendary blog about FELA! back when it was an Off-Broadway production a year ago. Now, they've made it all the way to Broadway! Enter the extravagant, rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in FELA! on Broadway. This incredible piece of theatre features the music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, written by Jim Lewis, with [...]
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In anticipation of the re-release of the entire 45 volume Fela Kuti recordings, there's some Felabrating to do! Knitting Factory Records is on top of the re-release with original artwork, digital packages, and for the purists, will be releasing the entire collection on vinyl! Giant Step has signed on and is giving the people a reason to come together and get into the afro-beat with Felabrations...
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"With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon" - Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The famous Nigerian musician-cum-revolutionary will be celebrated all this month with a series of FELABRATIONS in over 15 different cities, in anticipation of the re-issue of the entire Fela Kuti catalogue. Knitting Factory Records will be putting out the first release in this series on Octboe [...]
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--- - |- Due to familial obligations over the weekend, hence the late publication of this post, you need to get over to WFMU's eBay page now if you want in on these choice items. And you will. Oh yes, you will.Fela Kuti Promo PhotoAfrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Ransome Kuti has been in the news lately, especially the Arts & Culture section of many a New York City rag. There's a new Off-Br...
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Fela expresses his views on the role of music in modern African society...
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"Let's start what we have come into the room to do"...Patients, for today's post we wanted to take on the extended form and those revolutionary sounds from the afrobeat king, Fela Kuti. A man who took the sounds of James Brown and took them into the far reaches of funkdom. For ages now we've wanted to introduce one of our personal favorite live albums Live! Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa '70 ...
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Every once in awhile you come across an artist you wish you had found years ago. Fela Anikulapo Kuti is one of those artists. If only I had been more receptive to Nigerian jazz funk back in the early 70s . . . when I was embryonic. Oh, well. Lesson learned.Lucky for me, Fela was one prolific mutha. So there is plenty of choice. From his first recorded album in 1970, he continued making music ri...
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Hello all, hope this missive finds you well.I was led to writing this after reading Brand X's most excellent post on world police brutality day. Which got me thinking...Who is the most rock and rollingist, most hardcore, most extreme, the coolest, the most dont-give-a-fuckest motherfucker in the history of popular music? Was it John Bonham, and the infamous Red Snapper incident?1 Or maybe Jerry...
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Fela Fela Fela. It was with great excitement that I approached the theatre on west 37th.This was the Broadway opening of the life of Fela Kuti! Yeh Yeh - and about time too.Because if there's somethin...
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...and KAOS ensues, on Spin The Globe , 22 August 2008 edition. Today's show ping-ponged between the musics of Benin and Romania, with some fun surprises. And more broad-ranging sounds in hour 2. Congratulations to listener Richard, who won the Fanfare Ciocarlia CD Maskarada that was today's giveaway. The Playlist: (Artist - Song - Album) hour 1 Fa -- Tale Tale -- Defi Fanfare Ciocarl...
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This campaign was supposed to be something new, above the slime. Yeah, we all know how that went, huh? Sen Obama has interjected Race into this campaign in the most cynical way possible & his sycophants in the press have gladly played along.....The good Sen. told us we would hear innocent sounding phrases & words that are really code words used to disguise the ugliness & ignorence of the p...
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"With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon" - Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The famous Nigerian musician-cum-revolutionary will be celebrated all this month with a series of FELABRATIONS in over 15 different cities, in anticipation of the re-issue of the entire Fela Kuti catalogue. Knitting Factory Records will be putting out the first release in this series on Octboe [...]
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