Forget about everything tonight. That's what I aim to do. I was looking for a link to a video to send a friend. Ginger Baker's travelogue of his post-Cream trip to Lagos, Nigeria. It includes vintage live footage of Fela. Couldn't find it. But I ran across a lot of better quality footage of Fela that hadn't been there when I last looked a while ago. It must have been a long time ago because there's a shit ton of Fela there now. After gorging on that stuff, a clip of Newen Afrobeat {from Chile) popped up. It was all over folks. I'm still digging their stuff, particularly "Opposite People", a Fela cover with Fela's son Seun Kuti guesting. This thing is so damn tight. I have posted it in the past, but there's more recent stuff now on their Bandcap page. Reason enough. I also ran into a download of their first LP. But, you know, just for a preview. You really should buy their stuff. There's a lot of mouths to feed, what with three people just on shakers, about four of five horn players, two guitarists, two percussionists, a wood block player, a bassist, two keyboard players and phenomenal drummer. That's about sixteen people without Kuti. Yeah, go buy.
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Listen:Newen Afrobeat - Debut LP (via Mediafire) at The Curtain Width Full LP in zip.
Newen Afrobeat - Newen Plays Fela (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Newen Afrobeat at Teatro San Joaquín at YouTube Full live set
Newen Afrobeat page at YouTube
Visit:
Newen Afrobeat - Bandcamp page
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