Tribal music, Cape Town

Every year is celebrated a Fela Day (few weeks ago in Paris), proving that Fela Kuti's spirit is still gliding around, despite a very varied comprehension. Good occasion anyway to search in muzzicaltrips archives, and look at how evolves perception of african music along the years. Here's an article about Fela Kuti which reveals part of the perception of a jazz magazine from 1981 (Jazz Hot, first jazz magazine in Europe created in 1935). In 1981, Fela just released Authority Stealing, not…

The essential Sunny Ade of Nigeria

After years being ravaged by the Biafran civil war, Nigeria was ready to kick out the jams in the 1970s with psych-laced funk. Musicologist Uchenna Ikonne tells the stories behind the sunglasses

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