Big Wheel Posted July 21, 2003 Report Posted July 21, 2003 (edited) With Common, Roy Hargrove, D'Angelo, Baaba Maal, Archie Shepp (also taking a vocal turn, no less!), Organissimo's buddy Ron Blake, and many other guests. If you are at all into Afrobeat or quality hip-hop, you NEED this record. Plus at least some of the profits go to fight AIDS, as they do for all the discs in the Red Hot series. Check it out at http://www.redhotriot.com . (Has anyone here seen the DVD? I'm thinking of buying it.) Edited July 21, 2003 by Big Wheel Quote
.:.impossible Posted July 21, 2003 Report Posted July 21, 2003 Thanks for the heads up on this Big Wheel! There are some sound clips on the site. Sounds like a good one! Quote
John B Posted July 21, 2003 Report Posted July 21, 2003 as much as I really wanted to like this disc it never really clicked for me. I kept thinking how much better Fela's original versions were. One track, I think it was Water No Get Enemy, was fun, but on the whole I didn't think it was a keeper. I might have to go back and give it one more chance. Quote
Big Wheel Posted July 21, 2003 Author Report Posted July 21, 2003 (edited) Fela's a tough one to top. The thing I like about this record is how a lot of it was approached more from a hip-hop perspective (the breakbeats on "Zombie," for example) rather than just trying to reinvent the wheel with the rhythms of Afrobeat. Edited July 21, 2003 by Big Wheel Quote
Jim Dye Posted July 21, 2003 Report Posted July 21, 2003 Nice feature on Fela in the NY Times this past weekend. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/arts/mus...sic/20DARN.html Quote
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