Add Date: June 7
Artist: Seun Anikulapo-Kuti & Egypt 80
Album: From Africa With Fury: Rise
Label: Knitting Factory
Genre: International
Comments: The new record from Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, the youngest son of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was co-produced by Brian Eno and features Egypt 80, the band that his father fronted. From the promoter: "[T]he album captures Seun and Egypt 80's extraordinary power, fraught with the scorching rhythms and kinetic funk energy that has earned the band--as ever, under the leadership of alto saxophonist Lekan Animashaun--worldwide acclaim as one of today's most incendiary live acts. With Kuti's booming vocal stylings at the forefront, songs like 'African Soldier' and 'Mr. Big Thief' are fueled by call-and-response hooks, breakneck tempos, and combative, topical lyricism which firmly sets the classic Egypt 80 sound in the modern era."
Wonderful stuff; try tracks 1, 4, 3 and 2.
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