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openmind
who: Fela Anikulapo Kuti
what: Coffin For Head Of State
when: 01/01/1997
at: Universal
sounds like: AfroBeat
and on: 09/02/2001
was ripped by: Rambler12
resulting in: 2 tracks
which makes: 73MB
using lame at: 192k
and some more:
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In 1977, the government of Nigeria had enough of Fela Kuti │
and decided to take evasive action on his walled-in │
residence that he called the Kalakuta Republic (Fela │
declared it a separate state). Over a thousand soldiers │
descended on the compound and savagely beat the residents. │
Fela himself escaped death (but not incarceration), but his │
activist mother was thrown through a window and broke her │
hip causing an injury that would take her life within that │
month. This prompted Fela to begin recording reactions to │
this event: Unkown Soldier, Sorrow, Tears, and Blood, and │
Coffin for Head of State were those reactions. "Coffin for │
Head of State" was an elegy for his lost mother, to whom he │
was very close. The song opens lackisdasically and never │
really steps to any sort of fire that many of his │
compositions contain. He starts singing with the lines │
"Amen, Amen, Amen...," but he continues to talk about how │
those that live "by the Grace of Almighty Lord" do wrong by │
their fellow man. He talks about walking through the cities │
of Africa and seeing those that do bad things by the "grace │
of Allah." Throughout the song his sadness grows: "Them kill │
my Mama/So I carry the coffin." He then directly blames │
Nigerian President Obasanjo for her death: "Obasnjo dey │
there/With him big fat stomach." "Coffin for Head of State" │
is the saddest in his repertoire. Fela has certainly dealt │
with sad issues in his songs, but here he deals with sadness │
in a very direct, morose personal way. [In 2000, MCA │
released Coffin for Head of State and Unknown Soldier as a │
two-fer.] Jack LV Isles - www.allmusic.com │
track list:
│ 01 Coffin For Head of State
│ 02 Unknown Soldier
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