#FELA! Concert

[pandathetinyalchemist]

örlaga og álfamær, dansaðu við mig í nótt!!

[undergroundrockpress]

Fela Kuti en concert, probablement au Palais Beaulieu, Halle 18, Lausanne, 30 novembre 1986. Photo de Dany Gignoux.

[reasoningdaily]

Soul Power Kinshasa Zaire 1974 Muhammad Ali ,James Brown,Bill Withers, and a host of other international stars.

This is a historical document - because there will never be another Rumble in the Jungle.. especially with this type of stage presence.  Imagine, Zaire.. Man

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/12/soul-power-james-brown

Leon Gast's brilliant fly-on-the-wall film When We Were Kings won the Oscar for best documentary when it was released in 1997. It told the surreal story of the "rumble in the jungle", the extraordinary heavyweight fight in Zaire in 1974 when Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to win back his world title against the odds.

The fight was the main event, but a three-day music festival, called Zaire '74, also took place in Kinshasa, featuring some of the heavyweights of American soul, African pop and Latin-American jazz. It was headlined by the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, who was brought to Africa, alongside the Detroit Spinners, Bill Withers and BB King, by the festival organisers, Stewart Levine and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Also in town for the concert were Stokely Carmichael, the black power figurehead, and Don King, the motor-mouth boxing promoter.

Soul Power tells the story of the festival and its myriad characters in an impressionistic swirl of images and music. It begins with the organisers frantically trying to build a stage, install a PA and hold it all together as the musicians start arriving. When James Brown and Ali enter the same dressing room, there is barely enough oxygen left even for Don King. The jive talk is non-stop, but it's the music that mesmerises - and the audience's wild reaction to it. BB King wows the crowd with the restrained power of The Thrill is Gone, Bill Withers bravely slows things down with the brooding ballad Hope She'll be Happier, and Brown climaxes with - what else? - Say it Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud, which, had there been a roof on the stadium, would have taken it clean off.

The vibe is celebratory throughout despite the hassles, the various besuited business opportunists and the great big elephant in the room - President Mobutu and his years of corruption and misrule. Given that it is 35 years since the concert and fight took place, one might have hoped from some retrospective wisdom from some of the surviving performers. That one quibble aside, Soul Power is a riveting glimpse of another time and another place, when things were more radical and more gloriously ramshackle. Where was Fela Kuti, though?

[basilsunrise]

Nice ass(k) day

Since it’s your go-to question, throwing it back over to you. If you could go back and see any three concerts in history, what would they be?

Hey hey! Thanks for the return ask!

My three would be

1.) Jaco Pastorius- Live in Montreal Jazz Fest 1982. I don’t have an explanation other than just… it’s Jaco.

2.) Jeff Buckley Live At Sin-é. I always go back and forth between this and when he played at the metro in Chicago, but I ultimately pick the Sin-é because it was so intimate, in such a cool part of NYC. Also that Sweet Thing and Ye Jo Halka Saroor Hae are otherworldly.

3.) Funkadelic Houston 1976. While I would love to have seen my man Eddie Hazel live, there's something magical about Glenn Goins calling in the mothership. 🛸

I could also go on forever, so here’s a few honorable mentions:

-Phish-Halloween ‘94 or any show in Fall of ‘97

-The Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East- March 13, 1971 (the show that the Mountain Jam on Eat a Peach is from)

-Blind Melon-Woodstock ‘94

I also think seeing Fela Kuti live would’ve been incredible but I don’t have a specific show!

[afrotumble]

Did You Know ❓

Shabba Ranks Passed Out During A Smóking Contest With Fela❓

In The Year 1992, Dancehall Icon Shabba Ranks From Jamaica Was To Perform At A Concert In Nigeria. When He Landed, He Decided To Pay A Visit To The Afrobeat Legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti At His Kalakuta Shrine In Lagos Early Hours Of The Day.

During The Merriment, Shabba Ranks Challenged Fela In A Smoking Contest, But He Passed Out And Couldn't Perform At The Concert He Came For That Night.

[randomberlinchick]

Watch "Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Pansa Pansa - FULL HD (Berlin 1978)" on YouTube

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing him in concert when I lived in Austin. That I almost landed on the tour bus is a story for another day. 😬🚍😂

[chansonsinternationales]

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Rébellion afrobeat | Philharmonie de Paris

[deadassdiaspore]

In 1992, Jamaican dancehall icon, #ShabbaRanks, came to Nigeria to perform at a concert but decided to visit Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti at Kalakuta Shrine early in the day.

Shabba Ranks then challenged Fela in a smoking contest, but he lost when he passed out & fell asleep. He couldn't perform at the concert that night.

[ear-worthy]

Lost Notes Fourth Season: Music History To Your Ears

 KCRW’s music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, returned for its fourth season in mid-March as co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide listeners through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s. If you're interested in music history and how music influences culture and vice versa, Lost Notes is your sonic destination point. Stories include: ● Gloria Jones was a gospel-trained teenage singer from LA whose greatest hit - 1965’s “Tainted Love” - was never quite hers. But she went on to lead a double life as a hit songwriter for some of the greatest artists of all time … until a fortuitous rediscovery led to her coronation as the Queen of Northern Soul. ● Fela Kuti is known today as an iconic artist, innovator, and revolutionary … but in 1969, he was broke, exhausted, and in hot water with the Feds after a disastrous American tour. Yet a chance meeting transformed his musical and political consciousness, creating what we now know as Afrobeat right here on the streets of LA. ● For decades, Ruth Dolphin was only thought of as “Mrs. John Dolphin” - the wife of the Dolphin’s of Hollywood record man, who was murdered in February 1958. But now, for the first time, we set the record straight on Ruth’s own unique and unsung genius as the head of a revived and thriving LA musical empire in the decades that followed.

Other stories run the gamut from the secret Hollywood hideout of a pair of legendary musical brothers; the surprising cultural intersections behind a Chicano rock classic; and the darkly hilarious schemes of a female record-label magnate, who instigated one of the most absurd court cases in music history. Lost Notes takes its time between seasons, and one of my favorite seasons was number two in September 2020. That season of Lost Notes decamped in 1980, exploring the times and the music. That season is definitely worth a listen.

 Episodes of note include one on Minnie Riperton, who was famous because of one part in one song. “Lovin’ You.”  That song was Riperton’s biggest hit, and she doesn’t sing that magic, piercing note until around the three-minute mark. Cancer took Riperton away tragically in 1979, and the next year producers got to work on a posthumous album. In another episode, Jazz musician Hugh Masekela and singer Miriam Makeba, who were two exiled from South Africa, attempted to return home to South Africa for a concert. The 1980 concert wound up happening in neighboring Lesotho — and the performance became about defiance, namely against the Apartheid government in South Africa. My favorite episode is about Stevie Wonder, who released seven albums from 1970 to 1976. It is an unprecedented run of albums and songs, one of the greatest in music history. Then, in 1979, he faced his first defeat of the decade. Reviews for “Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants” were harshly mixed. So in 1980 Stevie was due for a comeback. Then-Lost Notes-host Hanif Abdurraqib reflected on the album and Wonder’s call for the observation of Martin Luther King’s birthday as a national holiday.

Crammed with rigorous and original research, delivered in lively and hilarious banter, and sound tracked by cratefuls of incredible music, Lost Notes delivers another knockout slate of first-rate music journalism, dressed in a characteristically gorgeous sonic setting. It’s a must-listen event for any aficionado of music history and great storytelling.

[sublime---frequencies]

Sublime Frequencies is thrilled to announce the Baba Commandant and The Mandingo Band are returning to the USA after an absolutely legendary first American tour in the spring of 2023. A tour that has been hailed unanimously as “show of the year” by anyone who had the privilege to see any of the spring concerts.

Touring on the success of their latest LP -- Sonbonbela, the third LP released by Sublime Frequencies with the band, recorded in 2022 in the Republic of Burkina Faso. The group continue to hone their trademark fusion of Mandingue and afro-beat styles. The Mandingo Band are a hit machine, sculpting seven new tracks of near Beefheart/Magic Band dynamics, Fela inspired groovers dusted out in the Sahel zone, rather than the humidity and sweat of Lagos, creating one of the most original and propulsive musical statements to come from the contemporary West African cultural juggernaut. As with previous releases, the band features the legendary guitar pyrotechnics of Issouf Diabate, truly one of the greatest West African (or Earth for that matter) guitarists of the last forty years. The band is completed by a near bottomless barrel of artistry from the Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso musical talent pool. On bass guitar, Wendeyida Ouedraogo and on drums Abbas Kabore. Leading the charge again is the captain himself, Mamadou Sanou on the Doso Ngoni featuring one of the most distinctive voices of the modern era. The opposite of the banal trends of auto-tune that have pervaded most of West African popular music, Baba’s voice still impresses with its gravel and grit, showcasing a range that is ancient and defiant in equal measure. This LP and the power of the band’s live concerts showcase a non-stop hit parade of afro-beat bangers destined to light dance floors and living rooms ablaze!!!

[lucasreflectivejournal]

Week 15 (Semester 1)

Caught Yussef Dayes in concert this week, after studying him + afrobeat music for about 2 years in 2019

Crazy to hear all the influences culminate into one performance. Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, UK dance music and breakbeat all shine through in his own way. Even down to the way the drums sound. Shows a high level of deep listening and spending extended periods of time in that collection of sounds.

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[ad_1] Famous Nigerian singer and record producer Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, in what seems like a New Year message laid curses on his haters. Speaking out in Lagos during his recent concert, the singer, who noted how he’s still performing in the country despite the several rumours against him, also touched on rumours of his mother dancing for the late Afrobeat musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The singer, who seemed hurt by the rumours in a viral video on social media, laid curses on his haters saying God would punish anyone who does not love him. “I’m here with you all after you said I killed someone in Cubana. After you said that my mama danced for Fella. No wahala. I still love you; that’s why I am here. If you like don’t love me na God go punish you. “F*king National TV dey talk like. Don’t know what is f*king happening and you all still laughing, not knowing it is serious. This is my life, them fit end my life because of rubbish.” [ad_2]

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Femi Kuti - ft. Asa - Tribute to Fela Kuti – @ARTE Concert