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Fela Kuti- Alagbon Close [Download Included]

the album cover for Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close [Download Included]
the album cover for Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close [Download Included]

Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Alagbon Close, originally released on the independent Jofabro label in 1974, marks the first full flowering of Afrobeat, as a music and as a principled political philosophy. Instrumentally, the album brings together the several signature elements of Fela's Afrobeat, which had not previously been molded into such a unified, finely-balanced form on record. Lyrically, it is a full-on confrontation with an enforcing power of the Nigerian state: Alagbon Close in Lagos was the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department. Many of the musical elements which make Alagbon Closeso compelling can be heard on earlier recordings, but on this album, Fela pulled them all together to devastating effect, in the process creating the classic Afrobeat paradigm.

Tracklist:

  1. Alagbon Close - Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa 70
  2. I Know Get Eye for Back

UPC > 720841207115

Format > New Vinyl

Label > Partisan Records

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Format: New Vinyl/International

Fela Kuti- Alagbon Close [Download Included]

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Release Date: 10.23.2015

 
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Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Alagbon Close, originally released on the independent Jofabro label in 1974, marks the first full flowering of Afrobeat, as a music and as a principled political philosophy. Instrumentally, the album brings together the several signature elements of Fela's Afrobeat, which had not previously been molded into such a unified, finely-balanced form on record. Lyrically, it is a full-on confrontation with an enforcing power of the Nigerian state: Alagbon Close in Lagos was the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department. Many of the musical elements which make Alagbon Closeso compelling can be heard on earlier recordings, but on this album, Fela pulled them all together to devastating effect, in the process creating the classic Afrobeat paradigm.

Tracklist:

  1. Alagbon Close - Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa 70
  2. I Know Get Eye for Back

UPC > 720841207115

Format > New Vinyl

Label > Partisan Records

Shop online at Darkside Records.

Follow us on Instagram.

> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.