The bombastic patriarch of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, once insisted that “the rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band” on the listener is intenional. “I’m talking about a whole continent in my music.”
Fela fully embraced his music’s capacity to serve as a sonic metaphor for t…
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