great place to get on board with Fela and his band, famed for their super-tight mesh-work of muted guitar, reaching bass and inspired drumming which rocks without at all resembling rock drumming. political, energetic and important, Alagbon Close's grooves seem to elevate the listener to a higher state of awareness, not in a narcotic way so much as a paramilitarizing one. the release I bought comes packaged with "Why Black Man Dey Suffer", an earlier LP where Ginger Baker collaborates
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