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The best of Femi Kuti

The Best of Femi Kuti serves as a fine introduction to the Nigerian Afro-beat composer and bandleader, and the oldest son of the genre's founder, Fela Kuti. It's compiled from his two Barclay recordings, Shoki Shoki (1998) and Fight to Win (2001), and contains about half of each album. His Tabu/Motown album Wonder Wonder is inexplicably shut out despite some excellent tracks — and the fact that Universal owns both labels! The latter half of the disc contains collaborations with Mos Def ("Do Your Best"), Common ("Missing Link"), and Jaguar Wright ("Fight to Win").

Soul science

Soul Science is a slow-burning album that reveals its many surprises and innovations gradually. It is a collaboration between Justin Adams — the guitarist in Strange Sensation, Robert Plant’s backing band — and Juldeh Camara — a griot from Gambia who plays a rifti (a one-string fiddle). Its 11 songs provide some of the tastiest gut-bucket blues this side of Muddy Waters’ early material. The music is, at once, reassuringly familiar and utterly exotic and strange.

Nyabole : Hamar, Southern Ethiopia

Los hombres de la Hamar, un pueblo al sur de Etiopía, todavía hablan de las grandes hazañas de sus antepasados, de quienes han heredado su voluntad heroica y fuerte personalidad. La música de los Hamar es variada: del arco boca, el sonido de la flauta, la interacción de la voz y la lira de pie, unidos a los bailes y cantos de guerra. Las grabaciones se realizaron entre 1970 y 1976 por el investigador de campo y etnólogo Ivo Strecker y - después de haber sido publicado en LP en 1977 - se adjudicaron el Premio de la Crítica Alemana anual Record ', en 1981.
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