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Who Is This America? (CD)

By: Antibalas (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Who Is This America? (CD) Album By Antibalas (Artist)
1   Who Is This America Dem Speak Of Today?
2   Pay Back Africa
3   Indictment
4   Big Man
5   Obanlate
6   Elephant
7   Sister
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.179) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]heir James Brown horns and cross-continental funk work up free-flowing hippie jams for nonhippies."
Spin (p.110) - "You come for the humanist politics; you stay (and stay) for the 13-member band's effervescent grind." - Grade: A-
Magnet (p.81) - "WHO IS THIS AMERICA? is the summer soundtrack for dancing in the streets. Rioting is optional."
Down Beat (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]he band's strongest outing to date. You can't hold still to this music. It's a sonic assault, all low horn and organ growl, while drums, percussion and dual guitars weave their magic underneath."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The horns are funky, the huge rhythm section right on the money....The brass and beats are funkier than an elephant."

Title Note

Antibalas: Ernesto Abreu (vocals, congas); Amayo (vocals, percussion); Luke O'Malley, Gabe Roth (guitar); Stuart Bogie (tenor saxophone); Martin Perna (baritone saxophone); Jordan McLean (trumpet); Aaron Johnson (trombone); Victor Axelrod (electric piano, Clavinet, organ); Nick Movshon, Del Stribling (bass guitar); Philip Ballman (drums); Fernando Velez (congas); Dylan Fusillo (percussion).

Additional personnel: Tom Brenneck (guitar); Entcho Todorov (violin); Alex Kadvan (cello); Geoff Mann (shekere); Mayra Vega, Ogugua Iwelu, U Poppa Dobi, Olia Toporovsky, Veronica Cuevas, Baratunde Adebimpe (background vocals).

Recording information: Daptone Studios, Brooklyn, New York.

It should come as no great shock that a group sometimes known as the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra should be heavily indebted to the pioneering 1970s sounds of the late Afrobeat king Fela Kuti. However much it may follow in the footsteps of that African master musician, though, the pan-ethnic New York City ensemble can't help but filter the Afrobeat sound through its own experience. Like that of Fela, the music of Antibalas is based around strong funky grooves accentuated by chattering rhythm guitar, punchy horns, and simple but colorful keyboards. On its third album, Antibalas is as fiercely political as Fela ever was, but its politics are those of 21st-century New Yorkers. Where Fela was known for having a veritable harem of wives, Antibalas closes its album with "Sister," a 20-minute ode to feminism. Of course, most of those 20 minutes are instrumental, as intense, hypnotic, slowly building rhythms are the group's stock in trade. As deep as the groove gets, though, WHO IS THIS AMERICA? always retains its sharp, socially conscious edge.

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