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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (CD)

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DISC 1 for Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (CD) Album By Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Artist)
1   Many Things
2   Na Oil
3   Don't Give That Shit To Me
4   Fire Dance
5   Think Afrika
6   Mosquito Song
7   African Problems
 

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Review

Spin (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he youngest son of Afro-beat superstar Fela Anikulapo Kuti strikes a commanding pose on his swaggering debut....Many of the interludes are simply thrilling..."
Blender (Magazine) (p.86) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hese seven-minute grooves are so focused you can tell they have something to prove."
Paste (magazine) (p.71) - "Providing a rekindled voice for the often voiceless, Seun's courage is gripping and a fitting tribute to his father."
URB (Magazine) (p.86) - "The result is an album that stands up with the best of any Kuti albums in its vibrancy, urgency and melody."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.90) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "The seven tracks are spellbinding as they rumble along, hypnotic in call and response."

Title Note

It's no surprise that Seun Kuti's debut album takes a page from Fela Kuti, seeing that Seun is Fela's son, and that Egypt 80 was also Fela's last band. While those facts may raise objections of coattail riding, there's very little to criticize here, as the second Egypt 80's ferocious groove kicks in on "Many Things," the album's lead-off track.

Seun sings with a passion that is inherited directly from his father, addressing politics, hypocrisy, and injustice with fearless conviction. Yet while Fela's radical spirit lives in Seun, it is the relentless polyrhythms, infectious horn lines, and slinking guitar and bass of songs like "Da Oil" and "Mosquito Song" that make this debut surge with life.

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Seun Kuti is the son of Fela Kuti, Africa's greatest musician and inventor of Afrobeat. From the opening bars of the self-titled debut from Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - ideas, words, and notes whiz about with abandon. The Afrobeat magic is set in motion while the delirious, unrelenting groove machine carries us away without missing a moment. For this debut album and full North American summer tour, Seun is leading the legendary Egypt 80 orchestra, his father’s last band. Egypt 80 have been together for over 2 decades and it shows in every note: the cohesion and absolutely mesmeric precision of the rhythmic reflexes down to the thousandth of a second that makes their ultra-syncopated polyphony the perfect 'swing' model.

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