I'm still behind on my reviews (please forgive me OKP!), so I'm still posting up already published pieces for the time being. This is one of my favorite reviews. For
Okayplayer, I reviewed the Fela compilation
The Best of the Black President, which was released around the start of the incredible Broadway play
Fela!. I would give more info on what Fela's music, Afro-beat, is and whatnot, but I introduce those things in the review. I'll have some more Afro-beat related posts coming too, which will fit in nicely with the whole black music month thing. Enjoy!
Fela Kuti - The Best of the Black President (2009)
There are several labels that have been ascribed to Nigerian Afro-Beat king Fela Kuti: visionary, trailblazer, misogynist, revolutionary, genius, etc. However, "prolific" has to be the most indisputable. Timed with the Broadway debut of the biographical musical
Fela!, Knitting Factory Records will remaster and reissue nearly all of Fela’s back catalog...
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