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    Fela Kuti Live with Ginger Baker (50th Anniversary Expanded Reissue)

    Knitting Factory
    • New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2003-3£22.00
      Limited red vinyl edition with etched d-side
    • Fela Kuti – Let’s Start
    • Fela Kuti – Black Man's Cry
    • Fela Kuti – Ye Ye De Smell
    • Fela Kuti – Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die)
    • Fela Kuti – Ginger Baker and Tony Allen Drum Solo, Pt. 2 (Live at Berlin Jazz Festival, 1978)
    • 1. Let’s Start
    • 2. Black Man's Cry
    • 3. Ye Ye De Smell
    • 4. Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die)
    • 5. Ginger Baker and Tony Allen Drum Solo, Pt. 1 (Live at Berlin Jazz Festival, 1978)
    • 6. Ginger Baker and Tony Allen Drum Solo, Pt. 2 (Live at Berlin Jazz Festival, 1978)

    It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat innovator backed by his powerhouse band Africa '70 and ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker, is no exception.

    This Anniversary edition features a newly unearthed second drum solo from Tony Allen and Ginger Baker, taken from Afrika 70’s performance at the 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival. Part I has never appeared on vinyl and this second part has never been heard - until now.

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