Alagbon Close/Why Black Man Dey Suffer
Fela Kuti - CD
- Artist: Fela Kuti
- Format: CD
- Year: 2007
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 875232007123
- Item Number: WRA200712
- Release date: 09/09/2008
- 1. Alagbon Close
- 2. I No Get Eye for Back
- 3. Why Black Man Dey Suffer
- 4. Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality
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Alagbon Close/Why Black Man Dey Suffer by Fela Kuti on CD
This chapter in England's Wrasse Records' exhaustive and authoritative Fela Kuti reissue project contains two albums that were recorded five years apart. Why Black Man Dey Suffer was recorded in 1970, but went unreleased at the time -- EMI, Fela's label, felt it was too controversial given its political overtones. It was finally brought out in France in 1986 by Decca's Afrodesia imprint. The album Alagbon Close was recorded in 1974 and released in Nigeria the same year, and in the United States in 1975, marking Kuti's first official American release with Africa '70. Interestingly, the earlier album's production sound is superior to the latter one. Alagbon benefits from a solid sound separation where the keyboards are actually heard in their very natural place in the mix; they have no unnecessary highs or thin ends in the frequency, which is sadly not the case on the latter set, where Fela and his band were put on a budget, even though they recorded very quickly. Stylistically, these albums match well together, the long and loping hypnotic Afro-beat funk and rhythmic punch is detailed well in both pace and dynamic. There are rises and falls over these extra cuts with terrific work by drummer Tony Allen on both. Allen left the band after the first recording and was replaced-temporarily-by Ginger Baker-and returned in 1973. Why Black Man Dey Suffer has been reissued a number of times; thanks to Wrasse and its high production standards, it has finally been reissued definitively. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
- Artist: Fela Kuti
- Format: CD
- Year: 2007
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 875232007123
- Item Number: WRA200712
- Release date: 09/09/2008
- Label: Wrasse
- Genre: International
- Style: African Traditions
- Album Time: 0:00
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- Beasts of No Nation/O.D.O.O.
- Coffin for Head of State/Unknown Soldier [Wrasse]
- Everything Scatter/Noise for Vendor Mouth
- Expensive Shit/He Miss Road
- Gentleman/Confusion
- Gentleman/Confusion
- Ikoyi Blindness/Kalakuta Show
- Koola Lobitos/The '69 Los Angeles Sessions
- Koola Lobitos/The '69 Los Angeles Sessions
- Monkey Banana/Excuse O
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- Open & Close/Afrodisiac
- Open & Close/Afrodisiac
- Opposite People/Sorrow Tears and Blood
- Original Suffer Head/I.T.T.
- Roforofo Fight
- Roforofo Fight
- Shakara/London Scene
- Shakara/London Scene
- Shuffering and Shmiling/No Agreement
- Stalemate/Fear Not for Man [MCA/Universal]
- The Best of the Black President
- The Best of the Black President
- The Best of the Black President [Deluxe]
- The Underground Spiritual Game
- Upside Down/Music of Many Colours [Bonus Track]
- Yellow Fever/Na Poi
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