Fela Kuti – Na Poi (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded during the most combustible period of Fela's career, Na Poi arrived as he was deepening his political confrontations with the Nigerian government and sharpening Afrobeat into something that was equal parts dance floor and manifesto. The Nigerian Broadcasting Company's ban only amplified the track's reach, as it so often did with Fela's work, turning censorship into advertisement for a sound that couldn't be contained.
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Na Poi, originally released in 1972, was re-released in 1976. Another version was included on 1976's Yellow Fever. The title track was hugely controversial and was banned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Company upon it's original release. In Yoruba, the expression literally means "things will collide," and in the lyric Fela describes what men and women get up to in bed together in graphic detail. Almost two decades after his death, vindication has come to Fela Kuti, Africa's musical genius. AfroBeat, his gift to the world, is now an international staple on his own uncompromising terms, social content intact.
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UPC: 720841208112
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: 10.16.15
Format: LP Vinyl