Various Artists / Finding Fela
Album: Finding Fela   Collection:World
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Sep 2014
Label:Knitting Factory, the  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-09-05 Pull Date: 2014-11-07 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Nov 2 Oct 19 Oct 12 Oct 5 Sep 28 Sep 21 Sep 14 Sep 7
Airplays: 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 1

Recent Airplay
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Egbe Mi O (Carry Me)
4. Nov 01, 2014: Clean Copper Radio
Viva Nigeria
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Johnny Just Drop (Edit)
5. Oct 14, 2014: Global Warming
Highlife Time
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Go Slow (Edit), Upside Down (Edit)
6. Oct 11, 2014: Music Casserole
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Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2014-09-05
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack about the father of Afrobeat
CD#1
1: 7:14 mid tempo, INSTRUMENTAL, great mellow locked rhythm, brass, at 3 min. electric piano doing call & response with brass.
2: 6:38 mid tempo, Fela vocal with fem chorus, driving mellow locked rhythm,
3: 5:23 mid to faster, Fela vocal, wailing sax, big bass
4: 6:09 slower, big bass, minimal Fela vocal first 2 min., then wailing big brass
****5: 3:45 fast, spoken word with GREAT driving rhythm & brass
****6: 6:22 fast, Sandra Akanke Isidore vocal call & response with chorus, with GREAT driving rhythm
****7: 12:42 mid to faster, mellow locked rhythm, e-piano, Fela voc/wail, >7 min. nice percussion groove, > 11min. audience sing along, la la la lah la la la lah
****8: 10:56 fast fast, pounding rhythm, wailing sax, vocal noodling, Fela vocal call & response with chorus, e-piano, sax & percussion groove
9: 7:50 mid T, mellow groove, Fela vocal call & response with chorus.

CD#2 FCC on 4 & 6
****1: 13:45 mid T, Fela vocal call & response with chorus, big bass, nice rhythm groove, > 4min. call & response with chorus and brass, gets into a great call & response groove
2: 5:47 mid T, nice rhythm groove, sax, call & response with chorus and brass, e-piano, more wailing sax
****3: 3:50 fast short version of "Zombie" nice Fela vocal call & response with chorus.
FCC ****4: 8:46 mid to faster, great Fela vocal, pounding rhythm, great sax FCC@ 2:44 hard to hear "you go fuck off"?? nice organ groove
****5: 16:13 mid T, nice rhythm groove, Fela vocal call & response with sax,
FCC ****6: 12:00 faster FCC hard to hear "Fuck" ??@ 7:37
7: 12:33 Live At The New Afrika Shrine, wailing sax with Femi Kuti, great groove, crowd noise, Femi talking to the crowd 7:40 to 11:00

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Fela Kuti & Nigeria 70 Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n Quench)
2. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Opposite People (Edit)
3. Koola Lobitos Highlife Time
4. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Lover
5. Fela Kuti & Nigeria 70 Viva Nigeria
6. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Upside Down (Edit)
7. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Egbe Mi O (Carry Me)
8. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Johnny Just Drop (Edit)
9. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Vip Pt 2 (Live In Berlin)
10. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (Edit)
11. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Go Slow (Edit)
12. Fela! Band, The Zombie
13. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 Power Show (Edit)
14. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 Beasts Of No Nation (Edit)
15. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Shuffering And Shmiling
16. Fela! Band With Femi Kuti, The Colonial Mentality (Live At The New Afrika Shrine)