FELA KUTI
'The Best Of The Black President 2'
(Re-Mastered)
Release date: 4 March 2013
Listen to Fela's "Everything Scatter":
Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti passed away 15 years
ago but to this day his legacy lives on across the globe with his
still-relevant, forthright political views and powerful music. Fela's
entire catalogue, consisting of almost 50 albums, are now being
re-packaged, with in-depth track commentaries written by Afrobeat
historian Chris May, and prepared for a three-batch re-launch between
March and September 2013.
The re-release programme will be
spearheaded on 4 March 2013 by the release of The Best Of The Black
President 2, a 2CD collection with foreword written by
Senegalese-American R&B/hip-hop artist Akon. The twelve tracks (none
under 10 minutes) include 1975's "Everything Scatter", probably one of
the ultimate Afrobeat tracks, as well as an extended version of the
classic "Sorrow Tears and Blood", inspired by the South African
apartheid regime's crushing of the Soweto uprising in 1976.
Fela
recounts stories such as police having unsuccessfully attempted to
charge Fela for possession of weed ("Expensive Shit") and speaks out
about the practise of skin-bleaching among Nigerian women ("Yellow
Fever"). Fela's final period of recording is covered too with 1992's
"Underground System (Part 2)", inspired by Fela's friend, Burkina Faso's
revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and his assassination. A special
deluxe edition of The Best Of The Black President 2 also includes a DVD
of Fela's legendary 1984 Glastonbury concert.
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