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THE COMPLETE FELA KUTI BOX CONTAINS
26CDs comprising of 46 Albums and the DVD: A Slice Of Fela.
26CDs comprising of 46 Albums and the DVD: A Slice Of Fela.
1. Monkey Banana/ Excuse O
2. Everything Scatter/
Noise for Vendor Mouth
3. Teacher don't teach me nonsense
4. Koola Lobitas 64-68/ 1969 LA Sessions
5. Roforofo Fight/The Fela Singles
6. Confusion/Gentleman
7. Shakara/London Scene
8. Expensive Shit/He Miss Road
9. Stalemate/Fear Not For Man
10. Open and Close/Afrodisiac
11. JJD/Unnecessary Begging
12. Zombie
13. Underground System
14. Live With Ginger Baker
15. VIP/Authority Stealing
16. Amsterdam 1983
17. Yellow Fever/Na Poi
18.Alagbon Close/Black Man Dey Suffer
19. Ikoyi Blindness/Kalakuta Show
20. Upside Down/Music Of Many Colours
21. Beasts Of No Nation / ODOO
22. Army Arrangement
23. Coffin For A Head Of State/
Unknown Soldier
24. Shuffering and Shmiling/No Agreement
25. Opposite People/
Sorrow Tears and Blood
26. Original Sufferhead/I.T.T
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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Complete but far from complete,
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This review is from: The Complete Recordings (Audio CD)
I'm afraid this is going to be one of those reviews that often annoy me as a reader: those that say very little about the content but concentrate on the packaging. But if you've ever encountered the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, giant of Afrobeat and big-mouthed dissident for over a quarter of a century of Nigerian history, you'll know what to expect from this 26CD/1DVD package; if you don't know the man or his work that well, it's unlikely that this will be a casual port of call for you anyway.It's great that Fela's music should be made so widely and thoroughly available. This Complete Works set isn't quite complete, but that's not my gripe - I think Wrasse are to be congratulated for assembling as much of his output as they have. It's how they've assembled it that's the problem. They've put out three separate 9-disc sets, each of which covers a fair selection of Fela's long career. This complete-works box has been assembled by taking all the discs (each in a simple cardboard slip envelope) plus the accompanying booklets from each of the three sets, and putting them together in one bigger box with another, pretty scanty biographical booklet. And that's it. Now, here's the thing. With any kind of complete-works set, in any medium, you'd expect to be able to derive a kind of comprehensive overview of the artist's career, how it developed and so on. But because each of the three smaller sets spans almost all of Kuti's career in itself, and there's no additional apparatus included here, you get no idea of chronology or development at all. With 46 original vinyl albums spread across 26 CDs, that means a lot of two-album CDs; in (I think) all cases but one, the two albums paired on the same disc aren't chronologically related - sometimes they're several years apart. Oh, you could probably sit and painstakingly work out from the booklets' 200-odd-word notes on each CD which original album (though not which CD) comes more or less where, but the whole point about sets like these is that that basic research and arrangement has already been done at the assembly and packaging stage. Here, it hasn't. This on-the-cheap approach to putting this set together means that, never mind being for completists only, it's only for completists who are already pretty damn knowledgeable and prepared to put in a lot of fiddly work themselves. Five stars for the music - which is, after all, the point - but one for the packaging.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
overwhelming,
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This review is from: The Complete Recordings (Audio CD)
Ian Shuttleworth makes excellent points regarding the rather haphazard nature of this box - 3 rather random 9 CD sets combined into 1, with their separate booklets intact and no chronological progression. My only gripe with his review is that most of the pairings, where a CD contains more than one album, make a fair amount of sense. And of course, a better organised box of this magnitude would be a lot more expensive, pricing a lot of potential buyers out of the market - not that that's an excuse for the lack of chronological organisation.But it's worth brief general comments (one could write a small book on this many albums!) on the actual contents, as the price makes this enormous amount of music a realistic purchase for those, like me, who were familiar with but didn't previously have that much of his music. Others have commented that it isn't actually "complete" - well, certainly Fela issued quite a lot of records in the 1960s that are represented solely by the 6 tracks of "Koola Lobitos 1964-68". I have to say that if they are representative, only serious students of 60s highlife should be disappointed by this omission - they're not that great. The meat of the material starts with the wonderful "1969 LA Sessions". After that, tastes will vary, as does the quality control in a few places, but for me about 2/3 of this material is top notch and certainly worth the money. Where it is less than brilliant, the fault often lies with Fela's sometimes rather wobbly keyboard noodling. The nadir for me in this respect is probably 1984's "Army Arrangement", present here in its original Nigerian version, which according to the booklet was drastically altered for international release by Bill Laswell while Fela was in jail, without his permission. I've not heard the Laswell revamp and have no real interest in doing so but I have to say that I can see why he felt it needed "improving". But this is an aberration and the vast majority of the music in this box, throughout the two plus decades covered, is good to brilliant, ending on one of many highs with the fantastic 1992 album "Underground System". For those relatively unfamiliar with Fela Kuti's music, it's worth describing what "album" means in his context. A large majority of the original LPs collected here contained one track per side, either splitting two parts of one 20-30 minute track or featuring two 12-18 minute tracks. Where the tracks were split across two sides of an LP, they are single tracks here with no audible joins. A lot of the original albums were pretty short originally, verging on 12" singles - some little more than 20 minutes, which is how they've collected 46 LPs onto 26 CDs (the 27th is a DVD) - but on the other hand, there are individual tracks here that last over half an hour, usually with such fantastic grooves that they come nowhere near outliving their welcome. So, an overwhelming amount of - mostly excellent - music to digest, good value for money and well mastered, if rather inadequately packaged. Will this be too much Afrobeat for most people? Probably, but it's great music and great fun to immerse yourself in it. Enjoy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME - AND CD SHELF SPACE SAVING,
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This review is from: The Complete Recordings (Audio CD)
THE WHOLE COLLECTION IN ONE HANDY BOX,EVERY ALBUM ESSENTIAL - IF YOU LIKE FELA KUTI YOU WILL BE AWARE OF HIS HIGH NUMBER OF ALBUM RELEASES..AND ONCE YOU START BUYING COMPILATIONS TRACKS GET REPEATED,EVEN MORE ANNOYING WHEN LONG TRACKS WHICH ORIGNALLY TOOK UP THE WHOLE SAIDE OF AN LP ARE EDITED.OBVIOUSLY A SINGLE ALBUM IS BEST FOR FELA KUTI BEGINNERS - WHO WOULD BUY A BOX THIS SIZE JUST OUT OF INTEREST,BUT I KNEW MORE OR LESS WHAT I WAS GETTING AND I WAS STILL PLEASANTLY SUPRISED.SHOP AROUND,MY COPY WAS AROUND THE £70 MARK.SOUNDS EXPENSIVE,BUT REASONABLE WHEN YOU THINK HOW MANY CDS YOU ARE GETTING,AND MOST CDS ARE TWO ALBUMS STUCK ON EACH CD.
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