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Fela Kuti: Fela In Concert
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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This extraordinary program features the most famous Nigerian musician and composer, FeIa AnikuIapo Kuti. Fela was the most ceIebrated BIack African musician of his time and a revolutionary, a cuIturaI and poIiticaI symbol oftentimes ambiguous to the Western mind.
The African rhythms of his music are profoundly infIuenced by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, MiIes Davis as welI as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Burning Spear, forming a new musical styIe caIIed "Afro-Pop," somewhat akin to "Jazz-Rock," but with deep African roots.
A charismatic performer, FeIa projects the imperial trappings of power. His music is punctuated by exotic and highly suggestive tribaI dances and rituals performed on stage by 15 of his 27 wives.
Was he a musician? A poIitician? A reIigious chief? An agitator? Was he a MiIes Davis-James Brown-MaIcoIm X who decided to marry his 27 dancers and singers, and his first wife, alI the same day, in a great tropicaI ceremony? ln any case, he was one of the best loved men in Africa. ln Nigeria FeIa cIaimed that he was better known that the President. It was probabIy true.
FeIa, BIack President
He Ied a politicaI party in Lagos, the "Movement of The PeopIe," and he was its candidate in the Nigerian Presidential eIections of 1983. Panafricanist, libertarian, Fela represented the uprising of Black Africa, poIitically and musically.
The historic show was recorded in Paris on June 30, 1981 during an excIusive "alI night" live concert. This exceptional event was captured on tape by muItiple cameras and recorded in 24-track stereo sound, newly digitized and enhanced in this DVD presentation.
SeIections
1. Instrumental SoIo
2. Army's Arrangement
3. OriginaI Suffer Head
4. Power Show
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