Fela Kuti – Everything Scatter (LP Vinyl)
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Fela Kuti recorded Everything Scatter during a period when his Kalakuta Republic commune had become both a creative sanctuary and a direct political challenge to the Nigerian government. The two extended tracks here showcase the hypnotic locked groove that made Afrika 70 one of the tightest bands on earth, with Tony Allen's drumming serving as the engine beneath Fela's saxophone and organ work. For anyone tracing the roots of what we now call Afrobeat, this 1975 recording is essential listening.
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Everything Scatter, originally released in 1975, is one of several masterpieces from early in Fela's mid-1970s purple period. In three extraordinarily productive years, Fela released 20 some albums of new material. The purple period continued up to and immediately beyond the Nigerian army attack of February 1977 which destroyed Fela's self-governing commune, Kalakuta Republic. By the time Everything Scatter was recorded, Fela had put all Afrobeat's key elements in place: the signature rhythms he had developed with drummer Tony Allen; edgy, jousting tenor and rhythm guitars; call and response vocals; fat horn arrangements and extended, jazz-based horn and keyboard solos; politically confrontational lyrics; and, crucially, the Broken English Fela adopted to take his message beyond Yoruba speakers.
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UPC: 720841207313
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: 10.16.15
Format: LP Vinyl