Fela Kuti – O.D.O.O. (LP Vinyl)
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti never stopped being dangerous. Recorded in 1989, when Nigerian military authorities had already burned down his Kalakuta Republic commune, imprisoned him repeatedly, and beaten members of his family, O.D.O.O. arrived as proof that no amount of state violence could silence the man who invented Afrobeat. The two extended compositions here carry the full weight of that defiance, with Egypt 80 locked into the kind of slow-burning groove that made Lagos dance and dictators nervous.
Overtake Don Overtake Overtake was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997. Like its immediate predecessor, Beasts Of No Nation (also 1989), and its follow-up, Underground System (1992), the album finds Fela continuing to campaign for human rights and social change despite the relentless beatings, jailings and general harassment he had received from successive military regimes since the start of the 1970s. This edition is pressed on alawọ ewe(transparent green) vinyl.
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UPC: 720841205739
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: 2.23.24
Format: LP Vinyl