Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2002-10-15
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Fela Mentality (Intro) - Fela Kuti
- Kalakuta Show - Gab & Lateef
- Interlude: Live At Kalakuta - Fela Kuti
- Shuffering & Shmiling - Dead Prez, Talib Kewli, Jorge Ben and Bilal
- Interlude: Gimme Sh*t - Mixmaster Mike
- Water No Get Enemy - Mixmaster Mike
- Water No Get Enemy - D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray & The Soultronics (feat. Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove)
- Gentleman - MeShell Ndegeocello & Yerba Buena (feat. Ron Blake)
- Years Of Tears and Sorrow - Common & Djelimady Tounkara
- Shakara/ Lady (Part One) - Cheikh Lo
- Shakara/Lady (Part Two) - Cheikh Lo, Les Nubians and Manu Dibango
- Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message) - Fela Kuti
- Zombie (Part One) - Bugz In The Attic (feat. Wunmi)
- Zombie (Part Two) - Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove
- No Agreement - Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maa, Positive Black Soul & Archie Shepp
- So Be It - Kelis
- Interlude/This Is An Ashanti Proverb - Fela Kuti
- By Your Side - Sade (Cottonbelly Remix)
- Colonial Mentality - Yerba Buena
- Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am - Baaba Maal & Taj Mahal (feat. Kaouding Cissoko)
Free Music Notes for Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti
Free Music Review: Worthy of Fela's name
Hit: 5 Stars
There is some great new afrobeat on this disc; super respectful of Fela and his legacy and never bound by his forms. The hip-hop is incredible and amazingly constructed; the Water Get No Enemy cover with Fela's son Femi Kuti, D'Angelo, Macy Gray, and Roy Hargrove is a definite higlight-- not at all what you'd expect from such popular names, no ego in the way. Tony Allen's No Agreement cooks like a house fire and the keyboard solo is really great (meandering, inattentive improvised solos being an achilles' heel of much afrobeat for this reviewer). There's nothing bad here. I was initially a little disappointed that the Sade track is a remix of a previously recorded song (a half-hearted contribution, I thought at first) but it's still a good mix.
Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti Poster
Never has there been a more appropriate Red Hot tribute than this one dedicated to the music of Afrobeat founder Fela Kuti, the Nigerian legend who died from AIDS-related complications in 1997. The artists and groups heard here, nearly 40 all told, cover the musical spectrum: hip-hop (Blackalicious, Roots), jazz (Roy Hargrove, Archie Shepp); soul (Sade, D'Angelo), Afrobeat (Tony Allen, Femi Kuti), world music (Baaba Maal, Jorge Ben), electronic music (Mixmaster Mike, Money Mark) and rock (Nile Rodgers). They have come together to raise money for the 25 million Africans now infected with the AIDS/HIV virus. Red Hot efforts often pair different artists together on the same song, and this album features many once-in-a-lifetime collaborations. Fela's music has been refashioned and mixed together here according to the styles of the artists, rendering several of the 20 songs barely recognizable in comparison with the originals. But such is the strength of Fela's music that even such singular-sounding artists as Macy Gray and Dead Prez get into the Afrobeat spirit of things. --Tad HendricksonAlternative Rock Music CDs
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