"a music genre which involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion."
Have to admit to being completely unaware of all this stuff before but it sounds pretty good.
https://youtu.be/mFSRCG4DrmI
Afrobeat
Re: Afrobeat
It certainly is pretty good.
These days there is another 'Afrobeats' which is broadly contemporary dance(hall)-pop with an African twist like this:
Davido - Assurance
It's pretty popular too - nearly 30,000,000 views for that one.
There's a big crossover with grime and UK music since, like Skepta, a lot of the UK artists have African roots:
Skepta & WizKid - 'Energy (Stay Far Away)
Anyway, back to 'Afrobeat' - I won't go into too much background except that all roads lead to Fela Kuti (it was his son you posted):
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Fela's drummer, Tony Allen, is amazing (I've seen him live) and was the James Brown influence in Afrobeat along with jazz and African hi-life that was a large part of the Afrobeat sound. He's currently touring with Damon Albarn's The Good, The Bad & The Queen band.
On the pre-crash board I mentioned seeing a New York based Afrobeat band called Antibalas. They are on the same label as the Dap Kings (who provided a lot of the backing to Amy Winehouse) and played on the sountrack to the Fela film:
Antibalas - Dirty Money
These days there is another 'Afrobeats' which is broadly contemporary dance(hall)-pop with an African twist like this:
Davido - Assurance
It's pretty popular too - nearly 30,000,000 views for that one.
There's a big crossover with grime and UK music since, like Skepta, a lot of the UK artists have African roots:
Skepta & WizKid - 'Energy (Stay Far Away)
Anyway, back to 'Afrobeat' - I won't go into too much background except that all roads lead to Fela Kuti (it was his son you posted):
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Fela's drummer, Tony Allen, is amazing (I've seen him live) and was the James Brown influence in Afrobeat along with jazz and African hi-life that was a large part of the Afrobeat sound. He's currently touring with Damon Albarn's The Good, The Bad & The Queen band.
On the pre-crash board I mentioned seeing a New York based Afrobeat band called Antibalas. They are on the same label as the Dap Kings (who provided a lot of the backing to Amy Winehouse) and played on the sountrack to the Fela film:
Antibalas - Dirty Money
Iggy's listening to jazz
Don't take my kindness for weakness...
Re: Afrobeat
Thankyou,once again
It's the Afrobeat I prefer.Fela Kuti seems to have been one of the good guys.
It's the Afrobeat I prefer.Fela Kuti seems to have been one of the good guys.
Re: Afrobeat
Fela is pretty much the African Bob Marley in terms of being both a political and musical figurehead, not to mention smoking huge amounts of weed.
There is a lot of his story out there and I was at a special showing of the 'Finding Fela' documentary a couple of years ago which is worth a watch.
Musically it helps if you like a bit of jazz and, like James Brown, he always liked long funky workouts and was famous for all night sets.
Iggy's listening to jazz
Don't take my kindness for weakness...
Re: Afrobeat
Yes thanks.I like the jazz feel to it.