1999 - Femi Kuti - Shoki Shoki

 

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Now that he's assumed the mantle of Afro-Beat superstardom from his father, Femi Kuti seems much more assured on his third album, Shoki Shoki. 

Femi is just as focused on political and social situations as Fela Kuti, as displayed on several tracks here ("Blackman Know Yourself," "What Will Tomorrow Bring," "Victim of Life," "Look Around"). Also like his father, he never lets the lyrically conscious material get in the way of pushing irresistible grooves. 

From the openers "Truth Don Die" and "Beng Beng Beng" -- both of which were passed off to dance remixers including Masters at Work and Black Science Orchestra -- to later tracks like "Sorry Sorry," Femi is a strict bandleader who knows how to get the most out of his charges. 

In fact, the only real stylistic difference between father and son is the fact that songs by Femi are shorter and poppier than those by Fela. (AMG)

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Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers

African Party

[Deluxe Edition]

(2024)

 

320

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Malian Musicians & Damon Albarn – Mali Music (2002) Flac

* In August 2000, Damon Albarn travelled to Mali for Oxfam’s On The Line project (about people living along the Greenwich Meridian), intent on getting together with his favourite musicians there. In the capital Bamako and its surrounding villages, he sat in on club and private jam sessions, playing concerts and streetcorners, bars and boats.

Back home in London, more than forty hours of tapes were opened to other influences - reggae, dance, rock - and then the work in progress was returned to Mali, for further contributions from the musicians there: immersive and open, back and forth. *

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Miriam Makeba

The Best Of

(1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

320

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VA - Beginner's Guide To African Funk (3cd set) (2009) @320

 

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