Music Rants I - Fela Kuti

[kearsley]

A few days ago, I picked up K'naan's new album, Troubador. In the first verse of the first song, it has the line, "Around here we only bumping Fela Kuti". That made me smile, as Fela Kuti is fucking amazing, one of those figures who would be implausible were he fictional.
Nigerian, he studied in London and briefly moved to the United

Comments

[leftisto]

I really enjoy the album "Coffin for a head of state" which he wrote about a month after they threw his mother out of a third story window.

[kearsley]

Specifically after having delivered her coffin to the Lagos army base. He also wrote Unknown Soldier about the subsequent investigation that claimed that the raid on his compound was by an unknown soldier, acting alone, and not ordered by the military or government.