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Factory Records releases 'RED HOT + FELA' on 15 October, celebrating the 75th
anniversary of Fela Kuti's birth and uniting an eclectic, collaborative roster
of artists from the USA and Africa in the name of AIDS awareness. All profits
are going to combat AIDS.
Featured on
the thirteen Fela Kuti reworkings are Angelique Kidjo, ?uestlove (The Roots),
M1 (Dead Prez), tUnE-yArDs, Baloji, Spoek Mathambo, Nneka, Kronos Quartet, Tony
Allen and many others.
Also to be released on 15
October are these six Fela Kuti reissue CDs:
Teacher Don't Teach Me
Nonsense (KFR1022)
Original Suffer Head / ITT (KFR1023)
Live In Amsterdam (KFR1024)
Army Arrangement (KFR1025)
Beasts Of No Nation / ODOO (KFR1026)
Underground System (KFR1027)
The release of these CDs will
complete the Fela Kuti reissue series by Knitting Factory Records. The complete
works of Fela, consisting of almost 50 albums, have been re-packaged, with
in-depth track commentaries written by Afrobeat historian Chris May, and
released in three batches between March and October 2013.
The first batch of
reissues was spearheaded by 'The Best Of The Black President 2', a 2CD
collection (KFR1029-2) with a foreword written by Senegalese-American
R&B/hip-hop artist Akon. A special deluxe edition of the compilation also
includes a DVD of Fela's legendary 1984 Glastonbury concert (KFR1029-5). Also
available is 'The Complete Works' of Fela Anikulapo Kuti in a deluxe box - 26
CDs (containing 46 albums) and a bonus DVD (KFR5004).
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