2017 Blog
Throwback Thursday: The Complete Works Of Fela Anikulapo Kuti 26 CD Box-Set
This month #ThrowbackThursday is dedicated to a truly inspiring artist, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti.
Pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, Kuti has been called "superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend." and Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers."
In 2013 to honour of this great musician and activist, Knitting Factory Records reissued a box-set collecting the majority of Fela Kuti's work on 26 CDs including 46 Fela album releases plus a 48 page booklet with biography featuring a track-by-track commentary by Afrobeat historian Chris May. Also included is the DVD 'A Slice Of Fela', a documentary based on the life and music of this legendary Afrobeat musician.
Moreover, the music went through a remastering process which gave Fela's work a renewed more defined sound preserving all details that make it unique.
If you are a Fela Kuti fan this box-set is a must have.
ALBUMS INCLUDED: Open And Close / Afrodisiac, J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop) / Unnecessary Begging, Zombie, Underground System, Fela With Ginger Baker Live!, Live In Amsterdam, VIP / Authority Stealing, Yellow Fever / Na Poi, Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer, Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana / Excuse-O, Everything Scatter / Noise For Vendor Mouth, Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense, Koola Lobitos 64-68 / The '69 Los Angeles Sessions, Roforofo Fight / The Fela Singles, Confusion / Gentleman, Shakara / Fela's London Scene, Expensive Shit / He Miss Road, Stalemate / Fear Not For Man, Ikoyi Blindness / Kalakuta Show, Upside Down / Music Of Many Colours, Beasts Of No Nation / ODOO, Army Arrangement, Coffin For Head Of State / Unknown Soldier, Shuffering And Shmiling / No Agreement, Opposite People / Sorrow Tears And Blood, Original Sufferhead / ITT.
DVD: A Slice of Fela
Knitting Factory also issued a version of the box-set with 3 extra CDs: I Go Shout Plenty/Frustration/Mistake, Perambulator W. Na Fight-O And Beautiful Dancer and Colonial Mentality W. Equalisation Of Trouser & Pant.
