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    Fela Kuti Open & Close / Afrodisiac

    Knitting Factory Records
    • Fela Kuti – Open & Close
    • 1. Open & Close
    • 2. Swegbe And Pako
    • 3. Gbagada Gbagada Gbogdo Gbogodo
    • 4. Alu Jon Jonki Jon
    • 5. Jeun Ko Ku
    • 6. Eko Lle
    • 7. Je Nwi Temi

    Two classic Afro-beat albums on one bargain price CD! All Fela Kuti's albums are superb! Highly recommended!


    Other Releases by Fela Kuti

    Fela KutiThe Best Of The Black PresidentKnitting Factory Records
    The Best of the Black President is the 13 track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician, arranger, producer, political...
      • 4×LP Box Set KFR1001-8£79.99
        *Ludo Board included!
        *Pressed on opaque 'Red, Green, Blue & Yellow' coloured vinyl.
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      Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
      Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
      • – Ikoyi Blindness
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      Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
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      • – Power Show
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      Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
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        • – Kalakuta Show
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        Fela KutiNoise For Vendor MouthKnitting Factory Records
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        • – Noise For Vendor Mouth
        • – Mattress
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        Fela KutiBoxset #5: Co-curated by Chris Martin & Femi KutiKnitting Factory Records
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          • 7×LP Box set (2.2kg) KFR4006-1£90.00
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          Fela KutiOpen & CloseKnitting Factory Records
          Reissue of Fela's highly sought-after 1971 album, 'Open & Close'! Super-funky Afrobeat featuring the incredible title track!
          • – Open And Close
          • – Suegbe And Pako
          • – Gbagada Gbogodo
          Fela KutiOpen & ClosePartisan Records
          RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12£28.99Gatefold colour LPThe 50th anniversary edition of Fela Kuti's classic "Open & Close" features...
            Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
            Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
            • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
            Fela KutiJ.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) Live!! At Kalakuta RepublikKnitting Factory Records
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              • LP + Download Code KFR2026-1£20.99
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              Fela KutiUnderground SystemKnitting Factory Records
              Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.
              • – Underground System
              • – Pansa Pansa
              Fela KutiFela's London SceneKnitting Factory Records
              Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
              • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
              • – Who're You?
              • – Buy Africa
              Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
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                • LP KFR2011-1£17.99
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                Fela KutiRoforofo Fight (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory
                Essential afro beat! A dancefloor bomb! You need this!! KILLER REISSUE of Fela Kuti's 1972 album Roforofo Fight! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
                • – Roforofo Fight
                • – Go Slow
                Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
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                • – Everything Scatter
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                Fela KutiNa PoiKnitting Factory Records
                Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...
                • – na poi (part 1)
                • – na poi (part 2)
                • – you no go die...unless
                Fela KutiSorrow Tears & Blood (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
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                  • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
                  Fela KutiHe Miss Road (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
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                  • – He Miss Road
                  • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                  • – It's No Possible
                  Fela KutiAlagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey SufferKnitting Factory
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                  • – Alagbon Close
                  Fela KutiFela With Ginger Baker Live!Knitting Factory Records
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                  • – Let's Start

                  Other Releases on Knitting Factory Records

                  Fela KutiThe Best Of The Black PresidentKnitting Factory Records
                  The Best of the Black President is the 13 track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician, arranger, producer, political...
                    • 4×LP Box Set KFR1001-8£79.99
                      *Ludo Board included!
                      *Pressed on opaque 'Red, Green, Blue & Yellow' coloured vinyl.
                      In stockAdd to Bag
                    Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
                    Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
                    • – Ikoyi Blindness
                    • – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
                    Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
                    This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
                    • – Original Sufferhead
                    • – Power Show
                    • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2039-3£20.99
                      In stockAdd to Bag
                    Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
                    ‘Overtake Don Overtake Overtake’ was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997.Like its immediate...
                      Fela KutiKalakuta ShowKnitting Factory Records
                      The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....
                      • – Kalakuta Show
                      • – Don't Make Garan Garan
                      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2020-3£20.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
                      Fela KutiNoise For Vendor MouthKnitting Factory Records
                      The Nigerian establishment labelled Kalakuta Republic inhabitants as ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, etc. ‘Noise For Vendor Mouth’ is Fela’s...
                      • – Noise For Vendor Mouth
                      • – Mattress
                      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2019-3£20.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
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                        • 7×LP Box set (2.2kg) KFR4006-1£90.00
                          In stockAdd to Bag
                        Fela KutiOpen & CloseKnitting Factory Records
                        Reissue of Fela's highly sought-after 1971 album, 'Open & Close'! Super-funky Afrobeat featuring the incredible title track!
                        • – Open And Close
                        • – Suegbe And Pako
                        • – Gbagada Gbogodo
                        Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
                        Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
                        • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
                        Fela KutiJ.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) Live!! At Kalakuta RepublikKnitting Factory Records
                        Originally released in 1977, ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ features Fela lampooning Nigeria’s ‘been-tos’, people who had been to Europe or America...
                          • LP + Download Code KFR2026-1£20.99
                            In stockAdd to Bag
                          Fela KutiUnderground SystemKnitting Factory Records
                          Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.
                          • – Underground System
                          • – Pansa Pansa
                          Fela KutiFela's London SceneKnitting Factory Records
                          Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
                          • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
                          • – Who're You?
                          • – Buy Africa
                          Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
                          'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
                            Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                            Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...
                            • – Everything Scatter
                            • – Who No Know Go How
                            Fela KutiNa PoiKnitting Factory Records
                            Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...
                            • – na poi (part 1)
                            • – na poi (part 2)
                            • – you no go die...unless
                            Fela KutiSorrow Tears & Blood (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                            Originally released in 1977, Fela and Afrika 70 rise to their peak with rowsing, radical stuff as espoused by 'Colonial Mentality'.
                              Fela KutiTeacher Don't Teach Me NonsenseKnitting Factory Records
                              In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...
                              • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
                              Fela KutiHe Miss Road (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                              He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.
                              • – He Miss Road
                              • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                              • – It's No Possible
                              Fela KutiFela With Ginger Baker Live!Knitting Factory Records
                              'Let's Start' - Seriously killer tune! and loads more. It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat...
                              • – Let's Start

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