Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit - LP - Knitting Factory reflects on the immigration crisis

reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa

Gary McFeat & Rod Owen gathered to compose film soundtracks

The former began exploring rhythmic complexity & narrow tonal palates in place of harmonic abstraction (Steve Reich's Drumming

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket

he has made certain jazz traditions in the same stream more explicit as well

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit - LP - Knitting Factory reflects on the immigration crisis2014 vinyl LP pressing of the Afrobeat star's 1975 album. Nigerian police, seeking to put down this independent minded rascal, tried to plant a joint on Kuti during a gathering at his home. Wise to their plan, he quickly swallowed the joint, but the police then threw him in jail to produce the evidence from his feces. He escaped charges with some wily plotting, and then produced this song mocking the police for wasting resources on hassling him