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Open & Close/Afrodisiac album for sale by Fela Kuti was released Jul 17, 2001 on the MCA (USA) label. Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam, Rikki Stein and Mabinuori Kayode Idowu. Open & Close/Afrodisiac CD music Digitally remastered by Pompon (Translab Paris, Paris, France). Open & Close/Afrodisiac buy CD music This CD reissue combines two early-'70s albums -- Open & Close and Afrodisiac -- on a single disc. Open & Close/Afrodisiac songs Open & Close has just three songs, all in the ten- to 15-minute range, mixing some of the improvisational verve of jazz into Kuti's Afro-funk stew. Open & Close/Afrodisiac album for sale There's a bittersweet, faintly melancholy tone to some of the progressions that differentiates this from much African pop of then and later, and the half-dozen percussionists set a good bed on which the horns and electric keyboards swap lines. "Gbagada Gbagada Gbogodo Gbogodo" is highlighted by extensive call-and-response vocals between Kuti and the band. The four (as usual, lengthy) songs occupying Aphrodisiac had been originally recorded in Nigeria as 45 rpm releases, though that album consists of re-recordings of these done in London in the early '70s. (Confusingly, one part of the liner notes gives the years 1972-1973 as the recording dates, while another section says they were cut in 1971. ...See Full Description

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Open and Close See All 9

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Swegbe and Pako See All 10

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Gbagada Gbagada Gbogodo Gbogodo See All 4

Alu Jon Jonki Jon See All 7

Jeun Ko Ku (Chop'n Quench) See All 4

Eko Ile See All 10

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Je'nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me) See All 5

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CD Universe Part number	1947873
Label	MCA (USA)
Orig Year	2001
Catalog number	858550
Discs	1
Release Date	Jul 17, 2001
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Recording Time	76 minutes