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a r t i s t antibalas
a l b u m who is this america
l a b e l ropeadope
g e n r e jazz+funk
r i p d a t e 08-06-2004
s t r e e t d a t e 00-00-0000
o r i g i n a l r e l 2004
s u p p l i e r m00g
s o u r c e cd
b i t r a t e VBR
e n c o d e r lame 3.90.3
r e l e a s e n o t e s
All Music Guide Review:
On its first album for the illustrious Rope a Dope label, the
Brooklyn-based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra continues to mine the
deep sonic and political fields first breached by the late Fela Kuti.
This is deep funk Afrobeat, full of deep, fat horns, trancelike
pumping bass, snaky guitars, and hypno-groove percussion. In addition
to the orchestra, which numbers 14 pieces, the band adds another ten
guests in various places and extrapolates its chunky, funky Afrobeat
sound by grafting it onto Latin beats and, in the longer pieces,
elliptical modal considerations. The album begins with the manifesto
"Who Is This America Dem Speak of Today?" Stuttering guitar lines
insist on ushering the quantum rhythms before the horns kick it into
pure hypno-groove. Amayo's vocals are pure righteousness as the track
winds back on itself three times before it eclipses at 12 minutes.
The wildest thing here is saxophonist Stuart Bogie's "Indictment,"
with its jagged-edged, hard shadowy funk where muted trombones,
keyboards, and even strings collide in a loose backbone twist-o-flex
groove before the vocals come in to lay down the law with rage and
authority. The final two cuts on the set, "Elephant," with its
entwined organ, synth-bass, and horn lines that become a ghostly,
post midnight Afro-Latin dance jam, and B. Mann's killer
dub-inflected "Sister," account for over half an hour of the disc's
total playing time. The two are consistent in the way they gradually
and purposefully unfold into labyrinthine considerations that are
deeply textured, multivalent exercises in intervallic groove and
shimmer, allowing the band's jazz pedigree to articulate itself more
fully. Antibalas may have begun its recording career by paying
tribute to the nearly overwhelming influence of Fela, but as this
disc attests, the band has been carving out its own space from other
traditions as well, and has developed a grand woven basket design
that bears the group's signature exclusively. This is its best effort
yet. -- Thom Jurek
...and remember: s t a y f u f f e n s f o r l i f e
t r a c k l i s t
who is this america dem speak of today 12:00
pay back africa 08:24
indictment 05:39
big man 07:55
obanla'e 01:40
elephant 14:04
sister 19:15
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