Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close Format:LP - Orange Vinyl I embraced Neil Diamond

I embraced Neil Diamond

So much so

a no-skips body of work

Sent to stay with her eccentric family in London

Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close Format:LP - Orange Vinyl I embraced Neil DiamondThe massed horns, relentless grooves, and bold improvising that would come to define Fela's aesthetic sound positively revolutionary on these essential early recordings. This album heralds a series of increasingly politically charged LPs Fela would release over the next three years. It was the first album on which Fela deliberately and explicitly challenged the authority of the Nigerian regime and the actions of its enforcers. Lyrically inspired by a