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Fela Kuti – Noise For Vendor Mouth [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, Red

Fela Kuti – Noise For Vendor Mouth [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, Red Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Noise For Vendor Mouth Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841207931 Release Date: 2024 Record Label: Knitting Factory Album Tracks1. Noise for Vendor Mouth2. Mattress Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Released in 1975, this album began Fela’s greatest and most prolific era. He had created and refined the perfect sonic blend that we now know as Afrobeat – lyrics that took on the social and political struggles of everyday people, drum rhythms he and Tony Allen honed to perfection, sharp punctuating horns, tenor and rhythm guitars, and call and response vocals. This album also follows his template of him using an entire side of an LP to build an unbreakable groove. This edition is pressed on Jabuticaba Red (opaque red) vinyl.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, Yellow

Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, Yellow Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Roforofo Fight Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841206682 Release Date: 2022 Record Label: Knitting Factory Album TracksDISC 1:1. Roforofo FightDISC 2:1. Go SlowDISC 3:1. Question Jam Answer2. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake AmDISC 4:1. Shenshema2. Ariya Limited clear yellow vinyl LP pressing. Roforofo Fight is the fourth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like it’s predecessors in the series, this version will be on color vinyl and the LP will be wrapped in a gold foil obi-strip with a brief essay on the album and Fela’s global impact on music. Like Fela’s other early 70’s releases he uses each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism. The lyrics of the title track illustrate Fela’s frustration at intolerant, violent human behavior by depicting a fight that breaks out in the streets in Lagos. The second song ‘Go Slow’ is a 17:22 minute groove of super funk featuring the deep rhythmic interplay that is a hallmark of Fela’s Afrobeat. Lyrically, the song uses traffic jams in Lagos as a metaphor to criticize the harmful social and environmental impact of urbanization© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Fela Kuti – Upside Down [New Vinyl LP] 180 Gram

Fela Kuti – Upside Down [New Vinyl LP] 180 Gram Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Upside Down Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841205913 Release Date: 2016 Record Label: Knitting Factory Album Tracks1. Upside Down – Fela Kuti2. Go Slow – Fela Kuti 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Upside Down and Zombie, both released in 1976, were made at the mid-point of an extraordinary three-year purple period during which Fela recorded 24 albums of new material. Upside Down is unusual in that it includes a second lead vocalist, Fela’s American friend Sandra Izsadore, who he’d known since touring the US in 1969. Izsadore, a black rights activist, introduced him to the writings of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and other revolutionary thinkers. Fela later credited Izsadore with helping inspire his philosophy of Blackism. Izsadore can take credit for something else, too: she affirmed Fela’s use of weed. Fela had first smoked in London in 1960 or 1961; during his time with Izsadore, he began to use weed regularly, continuing to do so until the end of his life. «Go Slow» was one of several songs Fela recorded which critiqued the consequences of over-rapid urbanization – in this case, traffic jams – using them as a metaphor to describe deeper social breakdowns.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit [New Vinyl LP] Digital Download

Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit [New Vinyl LP] Digital Download Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Expensive Shit Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841207511 Release Date: 2014 Record Label: Knitting Factory Album Tracks1. Expensive Shit2. Water No Get Enemy 2014 vinyl LP pressing of the Afrobeat star’s 1975 album. Nigerian police, seeking to put down this independent-minded rascal, tried to plant a joint on Kuti during a gathering at his home. Wise to their plan, he quickly swallowed the joint, but the police then threw him in jail to produce the evidence from his feces. He escaped charges with some wily plotting, and then produced this song mocking the police for wasting resources on hassling him instead of furthering justice in Nigeria. Opening brass rounds give way to interplay between Fela’s narration about the episode and responses from his group of female singers.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

PRE-ORDER Fela Kuti – Why Black Men They Suffer [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, Yell

PRE-ORDER Fela Kuti – Why Black Men They Suffer [New Vinyl LP] Clear Vinyl, YellowATTENTION: This is a PRE-ORDER Title. This item cannot be shipped before the official release date of Jan 26 2024 . You will not receive this item before the Release Date. Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Why Black Men They Suffer Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841207238 Release Date: 2024 Record Label: Knitting Factory Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in 1971 with Ginger Baker behind the board and sitting in alongside fellow drumming legend Tony Allen, Why Black Man Dey Suffer was originally deemed too controversial for release by his label at the time. The title track is a history lesson on the oppression of the African man – detailing the litany of abuses they have suffered from being taken as slaves to having an alien people impose a new culture upon them, take their land, fight them, and set them against one another. The B-side is Fela’s ode to the poorest of Lagos’ poor that lived in the Mushin district; he contrasts the corruption of the upper classes with the humble lives of the people in Mushin. This edition is pressed on Iṣin yellow (transparent yellow) vinyl.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Fela Kuti – Zombie [New Vinyl LP] 180 Gram

Fela Kuti – Zombie [New Vinyl LP] 180 Gram Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Zombie Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841206118 Release Date: 2016 Record Label: Knitting Factory Album Tracks1. Zombie2. Mister Follow Follow3. Observation Is No Crime4. Mistake 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. On the title track of 1976’s Zombie, Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70. «Attention! Quick march! Slow march! Salute!» sings Fela, «Fall in! Fall out! Fall down! Go and kill! Go and die! Go and quench!» Each phrase is followed by the women singers’ taunting response, «Zombie!» Just a few months later on 18 February, 1977, around 1,000 soldiers, most of them armed, swooped on the Kalakuta Republic. Fela was badly beaten, sustaining a fractured skull and several broken bones. His mother, then aged 77, was thrown out of a window, fracturing a leg and suffering deep trauma. The army then set fire to the compound and prevented the fire brigade reaching the area. The blaze gutted the premises, destroying six Afrika 70 vehicles, all Fela’s master tapes and band equipment, a four-track recording studio, all the residents’ belongings and, for good measure, the free medical clinic run by Fela’s brother, Dr Beko Ransome Kuti (who was also severely beaten in the attack). The first journalists to arrive on the scene were assaulted by soldiers. Inquisitive passers-by were similarly set upon. The army didn’t want any witnesses.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Green, Red, Anniversary Ed

Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Green, Red, Anniversary Ed Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Afrodisiac Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841206880 Release Date: 2023 Record Label: Knitting Factory Double green and red colored vinyl LP pressing. Afrodisiac is the fifth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like it’s predecessors in the series, this double LP edition is on color vinyl; the A/B side is green marble and C/D side is on red marble. The songs on Afrodisiac were tracks that Fela and the Nigeria 70 (Later Africa 70) re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1972 after they had become hits in Nigeria. The best known song on the album is ‘Jeun Ko Ku’, a satire about gluttony and Fela’s first major hit across West Africa. In Pidgin English the title means «chop and quench», which, in turn, means «eat and die» in Standard English.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.