Description
Strictly limited (75 of each title) indies only coloured editions of six reissues of Nigerian icon and Afrobeatoriginator Fela Kutis most important albums. This will be the first time they are released individually since their original vinyl release in Nigeria in the 70s and 80s.
This Wrasse reissue contains four songs by Nigerian musical legend Fela Kuti recorded in the mid-1970s. Felas style is Afrobeat, funk exuberance joined to Yoruban rhythms and slowly evolving over a long span (the four tracks here hover around 15 minutes!). There are rarely any surprises in hearing a new Fela recording, but the perennial elements of brass, organ, conga drums and female backing singers are always elegantly arranged and the music is downright infectious.
Everything Scatter is one of Felas first observations on how dysfunctional a country Nigeria is, but it doesnt yet rise to the level of political criticism that marked later Fela. In Noise for Vendor Mouth, Fela compares all the trash talk that he and his bold generation were getting to the nonsensical cries of street vendors. Who No Know Go Now is a call for Pan-Africanism and a scourging criticism of Idi Amin. Mattress is one of Felas more controversial songs, a praise of womanhood that basically sends the message that she is there only to serve her man.
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