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Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at £8.49. In the AMG review of 2009's The Best of the Black President, critic Richie Unterberger wrote: "A Fela Kuti best-of is especially daunting, when you consider trying to condense more than 70 albums into a mere two-CD set, and also needing to work with an artist whose tracks were usually in the neighborhood of ten minutes and more." Apparently, Knitting Factory thought so too, because it took over four years for a second volume to hit the streets. Like its predecessor, this set spans Fela's career, though the tracks are sequenced aesthetically rather than chronologically. There are a total of 12 cuts spread over two remastered discs. Highlights include the extended version of "Sorrow Tears and Blood," which closes disc one; 1971's "Black Man's Cry," which kicks off disc two; the furious second part of "Underground System," from his last album in 1992, and 1975's "Expensive Shit." In addition to the killer Afro-beat, critic Chris May's track-by-track analysis is indispensable. The booklet is also introduced by no less than Akon, who claims he's been listening to Fela's music all his life. [The Deluxe Edition also contains a DVD featuring a live performance from the Glastonbury Festival.] © Thom Jurek /TiVo. Independent news has never been so important. Did you know that you can get Democracy Now! delivered to your inbox every day? Sign up for our Daily News Digest today! Don't worry, we'll never share or sell your information. Editions. Follow. Democracy Now! Fela Kuti The Black President : An Hour Remembering the Legendary Nigerian Afrobeat Singer, We Speak with his Son Femi and his Biographer Michael Veal. Media Options. Media Options. Related. Topics. Six years ago this week over a million Nigerians took to the streets to mourn the death of Fela Kuti, the great bandleader and political dissident who had succumbed to AIDS . He is viewed by many as the greatest African musician of the last half-century. By the time of his death in 1997 he had released 77 albums. He once established a short-lived independent country within Nigeria named the Kalakuta Republic. He was arrested some 356 times for his political dissidence. In one case 1,000 troops under the dictator Obasanjo, now president again, stormed his compound with mortar fire. They repeatedly attacked, beat and raped members of Fela’s extended family. They threw his mother and brother from a window. Fela was hospitalized. His mother eventually died of her injuries. She was a well-known anti-colonialist and feminist. She started the Nigerian Women’s union and was an inspiration for Fela throughout his life. Following her death in 1978 Fela brought a replica of her coffin to Obasanjo’s house. Fela established a new form of music, Afrobeat, which combined the funkiness of James Brown, the politics of Kwame Nkrumah, the soulfulness of John Coltrane with a base rooted in traditional African music. He once married 27 women in one night. Though only five foot seven, Fela was a larger than life figure unlike any other musician the world has seen. His nickname was the Black President. Many in Nigeria believed Fela may have become the country’s first civilian leader if he had lived. Instead AIDS took his life at the age of 57. While there had long been rumors he was sick, Fela never publicly acknowledged he had AIDS , a disease that has killed millions upon millions of Africans. In the years after his death, his son Femi Kuti, an Afrobeat star in his own right, soon took up AIDS awareness as one of his main causes. Last year he helped arrange the release of the AIDS benefit album Red Hot and Riot which featured a slew of western musicians paying homage to Fela. On it were the hip hop stars Mos Def and Common. Jazz legend Archie Shepp. Soul singer Macy Gray. And Brooklyn-based Afrobeat act Antibales who have helped lead a revival of Fela’s music here. In the United States, Fela’s popularity has soared since his death. Dozens of his long out-of-print records have been reissued on CD. A new generation of Afrobeat bands have emerged. And in New York a major multimedia art exhibit on Fela’s life opened last month at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Yesterday, I spoke to Fela’s son Femi Kuti and to Michael Veal, an ethnomusicologist at Yale University who wrote a biography on Fela titled, Fela: The Life and Times of a Musical Icon . I spoke first with Femi, who was speaking to us from his nightclub The Shrine in Lagos Nigeria. The Best of the Black President. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at £8.49. Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938 -1997) was the father of Afrobeat, a political counter-power opposed to the Nigerian government of his day. He was a legendary figure of pan-Africanism and the godfather of contemporary African music. This release could only ever offer an introduction to his prodigious body of work (57 albums). But the 13 tracks on The Best of the Black President give an admirable overview of his output. The collection starts with two tracks which marked one of the peaks of his career: the 1972 release Shakara (Oloje) . He made that album with his best ever line-up, Africa ' 70, whose rhythmic keystone was the drummer Tony Allen. Gentleman which followed one year later, was a devastating broadside at Africans who imitated western fashions and lifestyles. This marked the singer-saxophonist's début on the piano, an instrument to which he brought a unique approach. Zombies , an anti-militarist anthem recorded in 1976, was another high point for the Black President. Sorrow Tears and Blood was written 18 February 1977, when the army and the Lagos police force stormed the Republic of Kalakuta, where Fela and his relatives lived. No Agreement, Pt. 2 , another afrobeat classic, only the second half of which is presented here, also dates back to 1977, when the American saxophonist Lester Bowie, who co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago, came to join Africa '70. On Shuffering and Shmiling (1978), Fela attacks the power of the monotheistic religions that colonised Africa. Meanwhile, on 1980's Coffin for Head of State, he blames the Nigerian government for the death of his mother. This generous compilation ends with an edit of O. D. O. O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) , one of his last hits, from 1990. © Benjamin MiNiMuM/Qobuz. Fela black president album download. Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Best of the Black President Date Of Release: 2009-10-27 Genre: World Quality: MP3 320 kBit/s Total Size: 222 MB. Tracklist: 1 - Lady 2 - Shakara 3 - Gentleman (Edit) 4 - Water No Get Enemy (Edit) 5 - Zombie 6 - Sorrow Tears and Blood 7 - No Agreement, Pt. 2 8 - Roforofo Fight 9 - Shuffering and Shmiling, Pt. 2 10 - Coffin For Head of State, Pt. 2 11 - ITT, Pt. 2 12 - Army Arrangement, Pt. 2 13 - O.D.O.O. 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