FELA KUTI - AFRODISIAC VINYL (LTD. 50TH ANN. ED. GREEN & RED MARBLED 2LP GATEFOLD)

LIMITED 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION GREEN & RED MARBLED 2LP VINYL GATEFOLD

Release Date: 2nd December 2022

"Fela Kuti (1938 - 1997) was a Nigerian musician, producer, arranger, political radical, outlaw and the originator of Afrobeat. A titanic musical and socio-political voice, Fela’s legacy spans decades and genres, touching on jazz, pop, funk, hip-hop, rock and beyond. ‘Afrodisiac’ is the fifth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like its predecessors in the series, this double LP edition is on coloured vinyl; LP1 is green marble and LP2 is on red marble. The album will be wrapped in a gold foil OBI strip with a brief essay on the album and Fela’s global impact on music. Wide spine jacket with printed inner sleeves and liner notes by the legendary Chris May. The songs on Afrodisiac were tracks that Fela and the Nigeria 70 (later Africa 70) re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1972 after they had become hits in Nigeria. The best known song on the album, ‘Jeun Ko Ku’, is listed by its Pidgin title, ‘Chop and Quench’, on this album. It’s a satire about gluttony and was Fela’s first major hit across West Africa. ‘Chop and Quench’ means ‘eat and die’ in Standard English."