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| Category | World DVDs, Jazz Movies, Funk Videos, Music Video - New Age, Music Video, Pop Music Videos, Music (General), Live Performances, Concert, Live Concerts, Jazz, World, World Music, Afro-Pop | | Music Performer | Fela Anikulapo Kuti |
Nigeria's explosively charismatic superstar was at his very best in this historic concert recorded in Paris. His multi-instrumentalism is punctuated by the exocit tribal dancing performed by 15 of his wives. With over twenty instrumentalists and six vocalists, Fela performs in Paris in a live concert recorded in June of 1981. Part of the VIEW Video Jazz Series.
Selections include:
"Instrumental Solo" "Army's Arrangement" "Original Suffer Head" "Power Shaw"
Concert was recorded live June 30, 1981 in Paris, France, using 24-track stereo sound and four tv cameras.
Fela Anikulpo Kuti is a Nigerian musician/politician who actually ran for President of Nigeria in 1983. Fela In Concert | List Price | $19.95 (You save $3.90) | | Studio | V.I.E.W. Video | | Orig Year | 1981 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  17598  | | CD Universe Part number | 2094474 | | Catalog number | 2305 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 30, 2001 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 57 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Digitally Mastered; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound |
Fela In Concert Movie Review Fela In Concert DVD Region 1
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Biographies: Fela
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This CD reissue combines two 1976 releases, Ikoyi Blindness and Kalakuta Show, on one disc. Ikoyi Blindness was a middle-of-the-pack release in a sea of mid-'70s Fela records that featured two songs and about a half-hour's worth of music. The rhythms were a little tighter and more highlife-influenced than they had been on albums from earlier in the decade. "Ikoyi Blindness" itself was pretty typical of Fela efforts from the period, both in its structure that built up to a call-and-response vocal and in its taut two-chord melodic base. "Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)" is a little more interesting due to its choppier rhythms, more vibrant percussion, stuttering low guitar riff, and extended haunting electric keyboard lines. By the time of 1976's Kalakuta Show, Fela's releases were starting to seem not so much like records as ...
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With production help from Wally Badarou, Fela Anikulapo Kuti offers up an interesting mix of songs (well, two to be exact) in both vocal and instrumental versions. Most compelling is the track "Look and Laugh," which details the attack by Nigerian soldiers on his Kalakuta compound. With simple lyrics, Fela runs down the horror of that attack in a detached, almost journalistic manner: "Till dem come/burn my house/burn my house/all my property/burn burn dem/beat beat me/kill my mama." Badarou's production help gives Fela his most full-bodied sound; the horn section is much hotter and brassier than ever before. The problem with this record is that with following an instrumental track with a vocal version of the same song, there's a certain lack of drama that blunts the impact of songs as powerful as "Look and Laugh." That said, this is very good mid-'80s Fela. The 2001 reissue on MCA adds a 22-minute bonus track, "Just Like That," which was originally released on 1989's Beast of No Nation album. ~ John Dougan
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