Fela Ransome Kuti and The Africa'70 - Fela With Ginger Baker Live! (1971)
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It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat innovator backed by his powerhouse band Africa '70 and ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker, is no exception. Like all of Fela's recordings from the era, LIVE! consists of just a few tracks, each of which approximates or exceeds the ten minute mark. Yet the arrangements are so dynamic on these tracks, the criss-crossing polyrhythms so absorbing, and Fela's incantatory vocals so entrancing that the long running times never seem a factor. Every cut crackles from beginning to end with its mixture of funk, jazz, and traditional Nigerian music, underscoring once again Fela's revolutionary, indelible contribution to world music.
Though already celebrated as one of rock's greatest drummers from a three-year run in Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker's curiosity brought him from England to war-embattled Nigeria to learn more about rhythm. "I don't dance," he said about hearing his old friend Fela Kuti's new band Africa 70, "but I just had to dance to Fela's stuff." This intimate collaboration was actually recorded in Abbey Road studio instead of a traditional rock venue, but was electric nonetheless. Said Baker in his autobigraphy, "an audience of 150 crammed into a large studio…with colored spotlights dancing about the walls to give it the feel of a proper live gig." Baker and Afrobeat bricklayer Tony Allen handle the grooves, and one of the world's funkiest bands gets a little free-rock pummel
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Tracklist:
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01 - Let's Start
02 - Black Man's Cry
03 - Yeye De Smell
04 - Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die)
05 - Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo
*1971, 2001 FAK / Barclay / Universal | 549 383-2
Personnel:
Fela Kuti: Hammond organ, percussion, vocals
Ginger Baker: Drums, percussion, African drums, congas, vocals
Tunde Williams: Trumpet
Eddie Faychum: Trumpet
Igo Chiko: Tenor saxophone
Lekan Animashaun: Baritone saxophone
Peter Animashaun: Guitars
Maurice Ekpo: Double bass, electric bass guitar
Tony Allen: Drums, percussion
Henry Koffi: Percussion
Friday Jumbo: Percussion
Akwesi Korranting: Percussion
Tony Abayomi: Percussion
Isaac Olaleye: Percussion
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