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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 right up until his death in 1992 to rack up a total of 40 unique albums--that is, ... MORE
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modderfontein of chicken bobby
i wish
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well, it's me birthday. so i'll relish it a little. i'm 31. . . getting old. listening to elton john. feeling weird. . .
think i'll post a song . .
actually, i'll post a video. . . it's about understanding someone's culture, rather than statistics. . .
basically, a part of the solution, rather than the problem . . wolrd music is great. . .
oh, and here's a video that you might like as well .
love you... MORE
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As the days warm up and lengthen as we close in on the solstice, I am sitting in my home office where the sun has beat down for several hours relentlessly bringing the temp in the room to 90 degrees. I sat down to do some work, but have become slightly addicted to writing about music on my MOG. It's close to 9pm and still in the mid 80s in the room...slowly cooling. Anyhow, Fela is crossing the airwaves and compelling to chime in...
Came across him a month or so through a ... MORE
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Nigeria held presidential elections last weekend, and it seems things went pretty bad. Lost ballots, closed voting stations, and lots of people killed. Too bad.
This song is for my very sweet friend (and father of my super son) Christopher who's in Nigeria right now. Peace!!!
It's my favourite Fela song, probably one of the saddest, and the story he's telling in it is completely true... he really carried his mother's coffin to General Obasanjo's barracks after hundr... MORE
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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 Lee Lewis rolling up to Graceland with a loaded gun? No sir, the man y... MORE
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im not sur--well fir--errr...im speechless on this one. enjoy.
Sofa So Good
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a great man
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there was a time in my life when i knew not whom fela kuti was, it was a sad time. but ever since that day i discovered who he was, well, its like ive been looking through rose-colored glasses. i always believed that jim morrison and james brown exuded raw sensuality and sexuality while maintaining their manhood, but goddamn, fela blows both of these guys out of the water! if only i could have been there when he married all 27 of his back-up singers onstage to protest his gov... MORE
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Flea of the Red Hot Chili peppers got me into Fela(which looking at it now makes sense). I remember seeing them some years back(Californication Tour?) and they played the most rhythmic, trance inducing music I had ever heard before their set and after much detective work, I figured out that it was none other than Fela Kuti!
I had a chance to see his son Femi a few years ago and it was quite amazing, although I'm sure it pailed in comparisson to his father.
Buy:
Original Su... MORE
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as i write this, i am deep in the fields of north muglore slaying harpies and other mythical beasts on my true quest to decapitate the beast who can only be known as arra'chea. the stakes are high and if i return...well, lets just pray i do. the main point of this letter is to inform all of you that i will be gone for a while...minutes, hours, days...who knows? all i know is that there is a large kodo ravaging the lands of mulgore and i, Yanga, am the only one who can stop hi... MORE
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Above photo by my dad.
This is the first in a hopefully weekly series of blog posts by my dad. I grew up in a house filled with 12,000 records and innumerable cassettes, reel-to-reels,etc; My insatiable appetite for music is directly related to my dad, who made sure we always had something on the stereo even when we didn't have much to eat. Because of him I have been to a reggae-loving Havasupai reservation in the bottom of the Grand Canyon, been held by Bob Marley as a ba... MORE
