Fela Kuti吼吼箱
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peytonstafford Fantastic! I am so happy to hear this music, and I try not to regret not hearing it until now. Wonderful!
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samtfrost No wonder J. B. and ......saw this as threat
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AmirShahbazi Viva Africa \ , , /\ , , /
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AmirShahbazi
music is the weapon [2]
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Omig Jazz Hop, Soul, Afrobeat project from Brazil - Live Show "Mental Abstrato & Friends" @CLASH CLUB in São Paulo!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cwhu0lZd68
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the_strand Totally worth getting the Complete Works collection.
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zircontweez 8-bit version of Water No Get Enemy on YouTube. Blew my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwP9DGmmj8
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vacuola God [2]
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IAJP god of rhythm.
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floatondc addicting grooves!
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r_lucas music is the weapon
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TheMonarch1 Check out his son Seun performing "Zombie" at the historic Englert Theater in Iowa City > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQRiRyT6dk
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Roncsipar Confusion. Water get no enemy. Shakalaodé!!!
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samuelfox1990
If you have not seen it yet, watch this documentary on Fela. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7mMJD5LeQ
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Fastarthur Mestre!
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iconan The Black President. Inventor of Afrobeat music. A revolutionary. - -.-.-.-. om hari om ..... ॐ
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Nakkinak cool stuff
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rhinowing
shuffering and shmiling is excellent
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zarqu Fela created really outstanding music.
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Saskatchewan_ I love Fela. Afrobeat is fantastic. I don't understand why so many people can't dig Jazz, it's wonderful if you find the right artists.
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genitivodeautor Awesome
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lost1in1death Not big on jazzy stuff, but damn dis is good.
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Sphen1234 any recommendations on what albums of his to get?
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Sphynex legend
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afrobeatmadness No words can describe him!
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no_such_thing @Turismo417 - One day cars will scrobble! (Join my group!)
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Sentenzia22 God
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EGEYURTUM FELA 1938 - 1997 - A MAN WHO JUST WOULDN’T TAKE SHUT UP FOR AN ANSWER (First published in NOSEBLEED issue 17 – 1998) http://www.wretchfalafel.com/2012/08/fela-15-years-on.html
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Turismo417 I love Fela. my scrobbles don't reflect it because I have at least 15 of his CDs in my car. Guess what I listen to when I drive everywhere - Fela Kuti.
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Nyasa_Lake salute.
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poshh Demax!!!
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cjkisaragi It was just a bootleg originally, remember.
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Heizdeckchen Really disappointed about the sound quality of the new release live Detroit. Really bad mix... But the compositions still great
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haloedeyes fucking genius
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co-bolt Does the length of music mean anything? It can, I don't doubt that. And surely there is a big difference in approach or even accessibility in between them. One has to go into music theory or even the sociology of consuming music to differ it. But neglecting the racial aspect is kinda stubborn. "Topical" is a crude rhetorical figure for that.
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barryvs Kuti's music isn't as popular and hasn't enjoyed the main-stream success that Marley has, which is a big factor in the mugs and the t-shirts. Don't put it down to racism because you feel like being topical. Marley's music is more accessible, and usually a lot shorter than the jams that Fela Kuti produced.
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co-bolt
And in the next step, one should think about the very own society, how it functions/work. Accusing musicians is a lame version of moral. I am not hailing for Fela or Marley or Coltrane. If I want to learn at thing about my government or about capitalism or even racism, I have to sit my ass and study.
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co-bolt
Hard to compare both of them. First, both are some special musicians who helped to widen the interest in Africa and the so-called third world as well. If you want to, one can just focus on their music, enjoy it and have a nice day. If you dig deeper, you will find certain contradictions or issues that might have or have a meaning for people on the political left even today. Otherwise it is bit of paternizing to sort different musicians and their contribution for the left. I wouldn't accuse one of them of being integrated by western commercial media or something else. Everyone' critizing, every critic can not prevent his ideas, believes or even scientific approaches to an issue not to be commercialized. We're are talkin on Last.fm, that's commerce as well, cause most people are expected to discover new music in order to buy stuff. That's just the way how capitalism works. Not just in the west, even in Africa or South America. One can only try to embrace and discuss the music.
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scottdvbstyle R.I.P.
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Roncsipar
it's not about Marley "not being tough and militant", it's about the images western commercial media being comfortable with
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KevinT23 He no be gentleman like that, he be Afrika man, original!
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hoodbrilliance Both Marley and Kuti were revolutionary. Marley took a bullet for his views and didn't complain. Why argue on who was tougher and more militant?
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juepucta Roncsipar: it's also easier to put Marley's face and write "Legend" on a shirt than Fela's face and write "One Who Emanates Greatness Carries Death in His Quiver and Cannot Be Killed by Human Entity".
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BowieFreak mhmmmmnn
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martinengo вот это реальный гений африканской музыки, черные рэперы всегда будут после него вторые
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Roncsipar
every single bob marley poster, t-shirt, mug and bracelet reminds me of how mainstream white culture is more confortable with a black cultural icon that is a weed-smoking passive cuddly feminine hippie chap rather than a badass revolutionary who had the guts to declare an autonomous republic in the capital of a military dictatorship.
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pablo323 Genio total
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sugahbush I wish I could write music like Fela
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chiloni so wild, so powerful!
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arkansasjason66 much love !
