Fela Kuti

the Ginger Baker in Africa DVD is worthwhile for the Fela footage alone, but its the live snippet of Segun Bucknor's Sweet Things that makes the film for me... They must have shot loads more footage of those live performances - wonder what happened to it all...

Segun Bucknor is so under-rated...

yeah that doc is great. is that the one that has the cartoon bit of Ginger traipsing around the continent? very lol

and yeah Segun Bucknor sequence is o_0

segun bucknor is wonderful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyXw5qgNLo

first real pang of regret that I never ended up moving to Chicago...

So guess who's arrived on Bandcamp.

http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/

This is absolutely awesome

Otm!!!!!!!!

wow

Six individual vinyl LPs to be released on 1 September 2014

* Fela With Ginger Baker Live!
* Confusion
* Expensive Shit
* He Miss Road
* Sorrow Tears & Blood
* Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

not going to lie, would love to have live!, he miss road and expensive shit on vinyl...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGBu6F9UUAAA63Z.jpg

I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY

No be story o

E no be story?

At all, very very at all.

man fela gets me so amped up i feel like i can conquer the world when i listen to him

Kind of fell down a fela youtube/spotify hole last night after discovering this beautifully shot footage of Africa 70 live --there's not much of that out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz2jXHKa7TY

as posted by Ward Fowler on the King Sunny Adé thread:

Fela documentary on BBC2 today:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pr2n

(starts two hours from now)

That was a fine documentary. It is now on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbOXDCqbPZo

yesterday it still was, sorry.

been starting to go through uh... possibly every fela record, we'll see. early verdict roforofo fight is one of the best albums i've ever heard

he has a lot of best albums ever

Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am is the best song I've ever heard on the best album I've ever heard

Open and Close is still my favorite but there are so many good ones. Confusion/Gentleman definitely up there for me.

I have discovered recently that "Expensive Shit" / "Water No Get Enemy" is great music for running... A side makes me go fast fast fast, B side nice and slow coming home

In general I'm not a fan of super-long intros, but I make an exception for "Confusion"

The Confusion/Gentleman twofer CD was my fave during my peak Fela obsession (I also enjoyed reading Michael Veal's book on him at that time), but everything named in the revive is great and Moodles is otm. I also loved "Lady" off of Shakara though, uh, I do not endorse the lyrics lol

"Lady" is icky but also fantastic. At random I'll sing, to myself, "She waaaaant that piece of meat before anybody."

it also inspired a great Hugh Masekela track

This is cool for the tracks with Fela that I hadn't heard before, but would be 10000000000000x better with Tony Allen instead of Ginger Baker, obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37sDbvQOJ2I

That's p much how I feel about the Ginger Baker / Fela album - it would be better without Ginger Baker and just Tony Allen

Oh! forgot that I went to an artist talk last week with Lemi Ghariokwu, creator of all the iconic Fela album covers, and it was a night full of amazing anecdotes. Got to enjoy dinner with the man as well. A funny, brilliant human.

re Ginger Baker: (paraphrased) "Always passed out on a sofa with a big joint in one hand, a glass of wine in the other."

That's p much how I feel about the Ginger Baker / Fela album - it would be better without Ginger Baker and just Tony Allen

i'm no Ginger Baker apologist but that album has one of my top 5 Fela tracks - Egbe Mi O. i guess it might have been right at the top if it was just Allen drumming.

Very cool JV!

Crazy.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/10/life-with-fela-kuti-dangerous-tour-roy-ayers-nigeria

Whoa

Bernard Purdie content alert!

Bernard is playing in Chicago this weekend and I don't think I can make it :(