Category: Fela Kuti
[Review] Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa ’70 with Ginger Baker: Live! (1971)
Baker’s interesting African exile led him into Fela’s camp for a few albums, with this being perhaps the most famous.
[Review] Fela & The Africa 70 with Ginger Baker: Why Black Men Dey Suffer (1971)
[Kronomyth 3.0] What will be the sacred word?
Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa ’70: “Shenshema” (1971)
Fela’s new single takes aim at the white colonialism creeping into African culture without missing an Afrobeat.
[Review] Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa ’70: Na Poi (1971)
Songs about sex and death, this isn’t his most enduring work, but Fela and the band show plenty of endurance all the same.
[Review] Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa ’70: Open & Close (1971)
Two electric guitarists double the pleasure of Fela’s evolving Afrobeat sound on this engaging record.
[Review] Fela Ransome Kuti And The Africa 70: Shakara (1972)
Fela and a slightly retooled Africa 70 continue to refine their Afrobeat sound, this time with a pro-machismo, anti-braggadocio agenda.
[Review] Fela & The Africa 70: Roforofo Fight (1972)
A few more tweaks to the lineup result in Fela’s best album to date and an Afrobeat classic.
[Review] Ginger Baker: Stratavarious (1972)
Basically half a Fela album and half an album of rock + drum workshop.
[Review] Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Afrika ’70: Afrodisiac (1973)
Recorded in Abbey Road Studios in London in 1971, this features re-recordings of some of Fela’s recent homeland hits.