{"title":"Fela Kuti","description":"\u003cp\u003eFela Kuti created Afrobeat, alongside drummer Tony Allen, by fusing highlife, jazz and Yoruba rhythms with the hard funk of James Brown, then using it as a weapon. With Allen driving Africa 70, his songs stretched across whole album sides: interlocking guitars, chattering percussion, blaring horn charts and Fela's sax and keyboards, building for minutes before he started to sing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat he sang about was corruption, military rule and colonial hangovers, in pidgin English so ordinary Nigerians could follow. \u003cem\u003eExpensive Shit\u003c\/em\u003e mocked police who tried to frame him, and 'Zombie' ridiculed soldiers so effectively that it is widely blamed for the army's brutal 1977 raid on his Kalakuta Republic compound. He kept going regardless, later with Egypt 80, on records like \u003cem\u003eArmy Arrangement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnderground System\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fungilator-recommended-artists\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:#C4293D;font-weight:bold;\"\u003eIf you like Fela Kuti you should check out:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mulatu-astatke-vinyl\"\u003eMulatu Astatke\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/james-brown-vinyl\"\u003eJames Brown\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cymande-vinyl\"\u003eCymande\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/budos-band-vinyl\"\u003eThe Budos Band\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/khruangbin-vinyl\"\u003eKhruangbin\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/talking-heads-vinyl\"\u003eTalking Heads\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sun-ra-vinyl\"\u003eSun Ra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fela-kuti-expensive-shit-vinyl-lp","title":"FELA KUTI 'Expensive Shit' Vinyl LP (Afrobeat\/Funk)","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1975\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eWhen police planted a joint on him, Fela swallowed it, and they held him until he passed it; he got hold of a cellmate's clean stool and walked free. He turned the whole farce into this mocking, horn-driven groove, Tony Allen's drums skipping underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldmine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39408892870814,"sku":"GM02763","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/files\/felakutiexpensive1.jpg?v=1721280267"},{"product_id":"fela-kuti-na-poi-vinyl-lp","title":"FELA KUTI 'Na Poi' Vinyl LP (1972 Afrobeat)","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eThis frank, slow-grinding song about lovemaking got Fela into trouble with Nigerian censors, and here it stretches out at full length. Interlocking guitars, tight horns and loose, tumbling drums simmer under his teasing, call-and-response vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldmine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40482278310046,"sku":"GM02769","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/files\/felakutinapoi1.jpg?v=1728430663"},{"product_id":"fela-kuti-underground-system-vinyl-lp","title":"FELA KUTI 'Underground System' Vinyl LP (1992 Afrobeat)","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eThe last new album released in his lifetime, its title track praises Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's assassinated president, and damns the leaders who stood by. The grooves are long and stately, with Egypt 80's horns blazing over stuttering guitars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kalakuta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40825863176350,"sku":"GM02776","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/products\/felakutiunderground1.jpg?v=1631928916"},{"product_id":"fela-kuti-roforofo-fight-vinyl-lp","title":"FELA KUTI 'Roforofo Fight' Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eIn Yoruba, roforofo means mud, and the title track pictures a scrap in it where nobody comes out clean. 'Go Slow' turns the endless traffic jams of Lagos into a crawling, sweaty groove that never lets up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldmine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42493780820189,"sku":"GM02771","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/files\/felakutiroforofo1.jpg?v=1728432350"},{"product_id":"fela-kuti-alagbon-close-vinyl-lp","title":"FELA KUTI 'Alagbon Close' Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1974\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eNamed after the Lagos street where police held Fela after raiding his Kalakuta commune, this is a furious answer to their brutality. Over Tony Allen's rolling drums and stabbing horns, he mocks the men who hide behind their uniforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldmine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42566697550045,"sku":"GM02757","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/files\/felakutialagbon1.jpg?v=1728432830"},{"product_id":"fela-kuti-army-arrangement-vinyl-lp-copy","title":"FELA KUTI 'Army Arrangement' Vinyl LP (1984 Afrobeat)","description":"\u003cp class=\"goldmine-year\"\u003eYear of release: 1985\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"goldmine-blurb\"\u003eFela was jailed on a trumped-up currency charge as this came out, and producer Bill Laswell overdubbed it in New York without him, to his fury. The title track takes aim at the military government that oversaw Nigeria's 1979 return to civilian rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCondition: New\/Sealed\/Mint\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldmine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47387146191069,"sku":"GM02758","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9434\/3070\/files\/IMG_3320_5370e5f6-b467-4830-9312-713abe040c61.jpg?v=1770846140"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.goldminerecords.com.au\/collections\/fela-kuti-vinyl.oembed","provider":"Goldmine Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}