Fela Kuti – Army Arrangement (LP Vinyl) Craft Recordings 2002 through Epic Records

2002 through Epic Records

offering a cozy

I’m Not In Love (1976 Demo) (4:27)

while readings of Thee Midniters' The Town I Live In and The Premiers' Farmer John ground the album in the specific history of Mexican-American rock and roll

with the ringing alarm clocks at the start of the track reinstated

Fela Kuti – Army Arrangement (LP Vinyl) Craft Recordings 2002 through Epic RecordsRecorded in 1985, Army Arrangement arrived as Fela Anikulapo Kuti was navigating one of the most turbulent stretches of his life, just years after soldiers had ransacked his Kalakuta Republic commune and his mother, Funmilayo, was thrown from a window during a military raid. The album's unflinching critique of Nigeria's military civilian power structure is Fela at his most politically precise, translating lived trauma into extended Afrobeat grooves