Album
Gentleman
Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70
1973 · Jazz, Funk / Soul
14 collectors on Gatefold own this
Gentleman is a Soul & Funk album by Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70, originally released in 1973. On Gatefold: 11 pressings tracked, owned by 14 collectors.
About
Like Sly Stone in America, Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti understood that the secret to protest music isn’t getting people to think so much as getting them to dance. <i>Gentleman</i> marked a peak of Kuti’s early ‘70s sound, mixing political commentary with simmering funk—a style as hypnotic as it was angry. A fascinating figure (proudly anticolonial, but also a polygamist who considered contraception un-African), Fela carried the contradictions of his politics into his music, a push-pull between freedom and restraint, Western influence and the total rejection thereof. “I no be gentleman at all,” Kuti sings midway through the title track, “I be Africa man original”—the presumption being that in the eyes of the European, one can’t be both.
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Tracklist
- 1Gentleman14:41
- 2Fefe Naa Efe8:12
- 3Igbe8:06
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Afrobeat
- raw
- intense
- political
This album was also reissued as part of Confusion / Gentleman.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Fela KutiTENOR SAXOPHONE, ALTO SAXOPHONE, ELECTRIC PIANO, VOCALS
- Tunde WilliamsTRUMPET TRUMPET, SOLOIST
- Igo ChicoTENOR SAXOPHONE
14 collectors on Gatefold own this · 11 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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