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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | May 6th 20 |
Proto-Afrobeat in the form of Highlife, a West African genre taking influence from regional traditional music as well as western big band. Taken from RYM: Highlife bands traditionally played for the colonial elite in clubs and hotels, and the term 'highlife' was coined to reflect this. Merci le colonialisme. Fela Kuti is already on board on trumpet, and this record for sure influenced his future Afrobeat endeavours. It's not as improvised or polyrhythmic as Afrobeat, and the songs are shorter and more cheerful, but you can still hear the influence. It's very rhythmic to make you shake dat colonialist arse of yours. I just wonder what they're talking about: are the lyrics boastful, political, innocent? Guess it wasn't political given the repression in the 60s Nigeria. Regardless of these considerations, jump on this because I'm pretty sure it's the kind of stuff you don't usually listen to. A very fun record.
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| 3.5 great | Runeii | August 25th 15 |
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