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Artist: Fela Kuti | Label: Knitting Factory | Format: LP | Genre: World Music| VinylCondition: Mint | Cover Condition:Sealed
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 80’s 1989 release
Original Sufferhead
A Re-issue from Knitting Factory Records on super limited Light Green vinyl
This edition of Original Sufferhead is a major event. With the release of box set #5, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent album is presented in its full-length, 25 minutes 24 seconds glory. While preparing the master disc for the box set, our engineer Jedi, Colin Young, discovered four minutes of lost material on the B-side of the original pressing, including a superb keyboard solo by Fela. This had been omitted from subsequent reissues. The restored version used here starts and finishes with Felas keyboard work, a typically venturesome blend of futurism and visceralism.
Original Sufferhead was the first album Fela released under Egypt 80s name (he had disbanded Afrika 70 in 1979).
On the title track, arguing from the personal to the political, Fela describes the inhuman treatment and poor living conditions experienced by working class Nigerians, the people he called sufferheads. In Power Show, Fela sings about the two-tier system dividing Nigerian society, in which the rich get treated one way and the poor another. This edition is pressed on ewuro (opaque light green) vinyl.
Side one is Original Suffer Head
Side Two is Power Show
NEW SEALED re-issue LP from Knitting Factory Records courtesy of Kalakuta Sunrise
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