| Various Artists / Finding Fela |
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| Album: | Finding Fela | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Sep 2014 | |
| Label: | Knitting Factory, the | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| 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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| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2014-09-05 | ||
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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 | ||
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