Music And Spirit Of Fela Kuti (2002)

Artist: Various Artists
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Label: Mca/mca Nashville/mercury Nash
UPC: 00008811307523
Release Date: 10/15/2002
Buy.com Sku: 60575250
Item#: M9HXQD
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Fela Mentality - (Intro) ~ Various Artists
2. Kalakuta Show - Gab & Lateef ~ Various Artists
3. Live At Kalakuta - (interlude) ~ Various Artists
4. Shuffering And Shmiling - Dead Prez/Talib Kweli/Jorge Ben/Bilal ~ Various Artists
5. Gimme Shit (Interlude) - Mix Master Mike ~ Various Artists
6. Water No Get Enemy (Intro) - Mix Master Mike ~ Various Artists
7. Water No Get Enemy - D'Angelo/Femi Kuti/Macy Gray/Soultronics/Nile Rodgers/Roy Hargrove ~ Various Artists
8. Gentleman - Me'Shell NdegeOcello/Yerba Buena/Ron Blake ~ Various Artists
9. Tears Sorrow - Common/Djelimady Tounkara ~ Various Artists
10. Shakara / Lady (Part 1) - Cheikh Lo ~ Various Artists
11. Shakara / Lady (Part 2) - Cheikh Lo/Les Nubians/Manu Dibango ~ Various Artists
12. Don't Worry About My Mouth-O - (interlude) ~ Various Artists
13. Zombie (Part 1) - Bugz In The Attic/Wunmi ~ Various Artists
14. Zombie (Part 2) - Nile Rodgers/Roy Hargrove (TRUE instrumental) ~ Various Artists
15. No Agreement - Res/Tony Allen/Ray Lema/Baaba Maal/Positive Black Soul/Archie Shepp ~ Various Artists
16. So Be It - Kelis ~ Various Artists
17. This Is An Ashanti Proverb - (interlude) ~ Various Artists
18. By Your Side - Sade (Cottonbelly remix) ~ Various Artists
19. Colonial Mentality (Interlude) - Yerba Buena ~ Various Artists
20. Trouble Sleep - Baaba Maal/Taj Mahal/Kaouding Cissoko ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Compilation producers: John Carlin, Paul Heck, Andres Levin.
Good records work; great records have an organic unity. By their nature, tributes can rarely be more than good records, but somehow Red Hot Riot manages to transcend that. In part it's because it moves into uncharted territory, mixing African and African-American artists in ways that haven't happened before, all in tribute to the late Fela Kuti (an apt subject for an AIDS fundraiser, since he died of the disease). And so there's rapping over Afro-beat grooves (a refreshing change from lame hip-hop beats), jazz, and R&B, African musicians playing Afro-beat, and a whole lot more, plus some of the most conscious words you'll hear in many a year. Mix Master Mike mashes up some Fela cuts for the interludes, which makes for perfect breaks, especially the opener, which leads into the powerful "Kalakuta Show" from two members of Blackalicious. It's a record of highlights, such as the groove jam on "Water Get No Enemy," with D'Angelo, Macy Gray, Nile Rodgers, and jazzer Roy Hargrove (who blows up a storm everywhere he appears on the disc) along with Femi Kuti, or the scathing "Shuffering and Shmiling," featuring Femi's band, Positive Force, behind Dead Prez and Talib Kweli, with Brazilian star Jorge Ben adding rhythm guitar and some sublime scat singing. Djali Madi Tounkara and Common team up for a lovely "Years of Tears and Sorrow," before Senegalese star Cheikh L? unleashes a fearsome "Shankara/Lady," a song he played as a teen, adding talking drum and a thick sound. On "Gentleman," Me'Shell Ndeg?Ocello and saxophonist Ron Blake work with Yerba Buena to create a piece that sounds like the song Talking Heads really wanted to do with "Life During Wartime." The mood slows toward the end of the album after "No Agreement," where Fela alumnus Tony Allen powers through the song, leading Baaba Maal, Ray Lema, and African rappers Positive Black Soul. It leads into two non-Fela songs, Kelis on "So Be It," which is pure Fela in feel if not execution, and a dreamy, dubby mix of Sade's "By Your Side" -- a fair inclusion since, like Fela, she's from Nigeria. It all ends with "Trouble Sleep," really Fela's only non-Afro-beat song, with Baaba Maal and Taj Mahal singing over Kaouding Cissoko's lulling kora, to close a record that's the perfect tribute to Fela's revolutionary spirit. ~ Chris Nickson

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 10/15/2002
Original Release Date : 2002
Catalog ID : 113 075
Label : MCA Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00008811307523

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (11/28/02, p.90)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...The revelation here is the way the whole thing moves - back and forth, in and out, always onward..."

Spin (11/02, p.124)
- 8 out of 10 - "...[Fela's] compositions sound as fresh as ever in the hands of his heirs..."

Entertainment Weekly (10/18/02, p.114)
- "...With grooves this delicately monstrous and a line-up this well-chosen and eclectic, it's the best sort of sensory overload ..." - Rating: A-

Uncut (1/03, p.118)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...If you're unfamiliar with the music of one of the true giants of African music, this is a good place to start..."

CMJ (11/11/01, p.7)
- "...RED HOT RIOT is a release as massive as the artist it honors..."

Vibe (12/02, p.206)
- 4 discs out of 5 - "...A tribute that's as fiery as Kuti's own music..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(3/03, p.104)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...The cast is astonishing....Rather great, all told..."

  


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