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File under: Afrika!

Fela Kuti

Underground System

Label: Universal

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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At 28 minutes in length, the title track boogies from fat funk break to fat funk break as though James Brown possessed the structural ambition of Duke Ellington. Recorded when Fela's 34-piece band was at its apex, this indispensable Fela disc has it all: wavelike call-and-response blowing and singing, thundering-herd percussion, dynamic electric grooves, and potent lyrical invective. The title track excoriates a government no less corrupt today than when it was written.
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File under: Afrika!
Cat. number: 549 249-2
Year: 2001
Notes:
Recorded in New York Mixed in London at Round House Studios Track 3 from "O.D.O.O.".