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Zombie (CD)

By: Fela Kuti (Artist)

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Fela Kuti Artist Snapshot:

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the controversial and unapologetically political creator of Afro-beat. With his charismatic presence, he presided over a teeming collective of musicians, which frequently made him a target of the authorities in his native Nigeria. A composer, singer, and musician, Fela cited the Black Panthers as a primary influence, and his innovative style reflected the influence of both African and Western music, particularly the jazz he had absorbed during a visit to the U.S. in the late 1960s. In live performances, he filled the stage with dancers, singers, and musicians in glamorous, glittery costumes, and his recordings offered marathon jams riding on the crest of an unshakeable groove and Fela's scathing broadsides.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Zombie (CD) Album By Fela Kuti (Artist)
1   Zombie  
2   Mister Follow Follow  
3   Observation Is No Crime - (previously unreleased)  
4   Mistake - (previously unreleased, live)  
 

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Review

Q (2/02, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Settles into Fela's jazzy Afrobeat groove for a classic anti-military broadside..."
Vibe (12/99, p.164) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century - "...hypnotically grooved '70s records by the Nigerian Afro-beat superstar whom James Brown called 'The African James Brown'..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Fela Kuti (vocals, alto & tenor saxophones, piano); Ogene Kologbo, Leke Benson (guitar); Christopher Uwaifor (tenor saxophone); Lekan Animashaun (baritone saxophone); Tunde Williams (trumpet); Franco Aboddy (electric bass); Tony Allen (drums); Henri Kafi, Nicholas Addo (congas); Isaac Olaley (maracas).

Producer: Fela Kuti

Reissue producer: Jean-Pierre Haie

Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam, Rikki Stein and Mabinuori Kayode Idowu.

Digitally remastered by Pompon (Translab Paris, Paris, France).

With the inclusion of Nigerian master musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti's incendiary 1977 single, "Zombie," "Mr. Follow Follow," a typical anti-authoritarian exhortation, and a couple of hitherto-unreleased live cuts from the 1978 Berlin Jazz festival, ZOMBIE finds the iconoclastic singer and bandleader at his electrifying best. The title track, an anti-militaristic lampoon of the Nigerian armed forces, earned Fela the ire of that army--revenge came when soldiers wrecked Fela's compound, throwing his mother from a window and killing her. A breakneck rhythm, skittering horn lines, and Fela's own taunting vocals add up to one of the musician's most confrontational tracks. Conflict is likewise in the air on "Mistake," performed in front of a less-than-ecstatic crowd of Berlin jazz aficionados, conveying the palpable anger of a musician who craved controversy and relished provocation.

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