Street Date: 8/11/17
Alagbon Close, originally released on the independent Jofabro label in 1974, marks the first full flowering of Afrobeat, as a music and as a principled political philosophy. Instrumentally, the album brings together the several signature elements of Fela’s Afrobeat, which had not previously been moulded into such a unified, finely-balanced form on record. Lyrically, it is a full-on confrontation with an enforcing power of the Nigerian state: Alagbon Close in Lagos was the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department. Many of the musical elements which make Alagbon Close so compelling can be heard on earlier recordings, but on this album, Fela pulled them all together to devastating effect, in the process creating the classic Afrobeat paradigm.
Tracklist
| A | Alagbon Close | 16:58 |
| B | I No Get Eye For Back | 12:35 |
Credits
- Arranged By, Composed By – Fela Ransome Kuti
- Baritone Saxophone – Lekan Anishaun
- Bass Guitar – Franco Aboddy
- Congas [1st] – Henry Kofi
- Congas [2nd] – Daniel Koranteg
- Congas [3rd] – Nicholas Addo
- Cover, Design [Front] – S. E. Lemy
- Drums [Leader] – Tony Alen
- Guitar [Tenor] – Tutu Shoronmu
- Maracas – Issac Olaleye
- Percussion [Sticks] – James Abayomi
- Photography By [Back] – Peter Obe
- Producer – Fela Ransome Kuti
- Rhythm Guitar – Shegun Edo
- Tenor Saxophone – Christopher Uwaifor
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Electric Piano, Vocals – Fela Ransome Kuti
- Trumpet [2nd] – Ukem Stephen
- Trumpet, Soloist – Tunde Williams
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