Fela Kuti
Africa 70
Coffin For Head Of State
139 LEI
Out of stock | Incl. VAT
LP | NEW
| 2019
KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS
World Afrobeat Jazz Soul Funk
In 1977, the government of Nigeria had enough of Fela Kuti and decided to take evasive action on his walled-in residence that he called the Kalakuta Republic (Fela declared it a separate state). Over a thousand soldiers descended on the compound and savagely beat the residents. Fela himself escaped death (but not incarceration), but his activist mother was thrown through a window and broke her hip -- causing an injury that would take her life within that month. This prompted Fela to begin recording reactions to this event: Unkown Soldier, Sorrow, Tears, and Blood, and Coffin for Head of State were those reactions.
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