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Army Arrangement (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Army Arrangement (LP)
[ Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
Army Arrangement is about Nigeria's attempt at 'democracy' in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule. In 1970, Nigeria emerged from a three-year Biafra civil war with the largest standing army in black Africa, no financial debts - careering...
Gentleman 50th Anniversary (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Gentleman 50th Anniversary (LP)
[ Liberation / LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ]
1973's Gentleman is the 7th in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like its predecessors in the series, this version will be available on exclusive colored vinyl (Igbo Smoke) and the LP will be wrapped in a gold foil obi strip...
Live! With Ginger Baker (50th Anniversary LP Edition) cover
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Fela Kuti
Live! With Ginger Baker (50th Anniversary LP Edition)
[ Knitting Factory Records / 2 LP - released 18/Mar/2022 ]
Limited Edition Red Coloured Vinyl. The 50th-anniversary reissue of Live! is pressed on double red vinyl and features an etching of the album artwork on Side D. Side C features Ginger Baker and Tony Allen's blinding, extended, dual-drums solos...
London Scene 50th Anniversary cover
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Fela Kuti
London Scene 50th Anniversary
[ Knitting Factory Records / LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ]
To understand where Fela's musical quest began, you have to start with his education at London's Trinity College School of Music. While his family had sent him to England to study medicine, Fela had more musical aspirations. After finishing school,...
Open & Close (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Open & Close (LP)
[ Knitting Factory Records / LP - released 27/Aug/2021 ]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fela Kuti's classic Open & Close, Knitting Factory Records and Cooking Vinyl Australia issue the first vinyl pressing of this album since the 1980s. This edition features a return to the original gatefold jacket...
Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition LP)
[ Knitting Factory Records / 2 LP - released 19/Aug/2022 ]
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. His audience came from among the region's...
Undergound System (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Undergound System (LP)
[ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
Fela starts the song in Underground System by saying he had sang songs for great African men: Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana was for him the greatest of all. In the same breath, he had sang songs against African thieves: Olusegun...
V.I.P. (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
V.I.P. (LP)
[ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
Performed by Fela and his Afrika 70 at the renowned Berlin Jazz Festival in 1978, this live recording of V.I.P. is possibly Fela's most profound vilification of the Nigerian government. In his very public address to the European crowd, Fela explains...
Na Poi (LP) cover
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Fela Ransome- Kuti & The Arica '70
Na Poi (LP)
[ Knitting Factory / LP - released 11/May/2010 ]
The "Na Poi" album contains a later version of Fela's scandalous hit "Na Poi", in which Fela details what happens between a man and a woman behind closed doors. Originally banned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Company for its taboo sexual lyrics, the...
The Best of the Black President (Deluxe 2CD + DVD) cover
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Fela Kuti
The Best of the Black President (Deluxe 2CD + DVD)
[ Knitting Factory Records / 3 CD/DVD - released 18/Jul/2011 ]
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Fela Kuti
The Best of the Black President (2CD)
[ Knitting Factory Records / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ]
This fine Fela Kuti collection brings together the most popular songs from the king of Afro-beat.
Live in Detroit 1986 cover
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Fela Kuti
Live in Detroit 1986
[ 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2012 ]
Yellow Fever (LP) cover
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Fela Kuti
Yellow Fever (LP)
[ Knitting Factory / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
The title track, "Yellow Fever", is a scathing criticism of post-colonial Nigerians who cannot shake their "colonial mentality." Fela rails on women who bleach their skin as an act of beauty, contemptuously adding that, despite what they think, it...
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Fela-Ransome Kuti
Lagos Baby, 1963-1969
[ Vampisoul / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ]
Many Things cover
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Seun Kuti + Fela's Egypt 80
Many Things
[ Cartell / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ]
Seun Kuti leads Fela's original 20-piece group in an explosive dance party, featuring the Kuti family's signature Afro-beat magic and social consciousness laced with a contemporary mix of urban funk, soulful grooves and hip-hop rhythms.