Fela Kuti – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (LP Vinyl)
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Released in 1986, this was one of Fela's final studio albums before his health declined, making it a particularly charged document of his restless political imagination. The Kalakuta raid he references in "Look and Laugh" wasn't abstract history for him, it was a brutal 1977 event in which soldiers burned his compound and threw his mother from a window, a wound he carried for the rest of his life.
Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense sees Fela explaining the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that everything we consider as problems, and everything we accept as good in life, begin with what we are taught. With production help coming from the extremely talented and prolific Wally Badarou, these songs have Fela s most full-bodied sound to date and a horn section that s much hotter and brassier than ever before. "Look and Laugh" is among Fela's most compelling songs and details the attack from Nigerian Soldiers on his home, the Kalakuta Compound, in a detached, almost journalistic way.
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Side B
UPC: 720841205517
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: 8.19.14
Format: LP Vinyl