Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album)

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Unknown Soldier
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Studio album by
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti and his Africa 70
Released1979
Recorded1979
StudioPhonodisk Studio, Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun, Nigeria
Genre Afrobeat
Length31:08
Label Skylark
SKLP 003
Producer Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti chronology
Shuffering and Shmiling
(1977)		Unknown Soldier
(1979)		V.I.P. - Vagabonds in Power
(1979)

Unknown Soldier is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, recorded in 1979 and originally released on the Nigerian Skylark label. [1]

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Reception

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AllMusic stated: "An epic 31-minute tribute to his fallen mother, Unknown Soldier is one of the most ambitious recordings of Kuti's career which describes in frightening detail the events that transpired on the eve of the Kalakuta raid.... Kuti gives a tortured, powerful performance of some of his most vivid and incendiary music – music that was in many ways the ideological equal of the physical torture that Kuti and his company had endured". [2]

Track listing

All compositions composed and arranged by Fela Kuti. French lyrics translated by Kwesi Yopee

  1. "Unknown Soldier" (Instrumental) – 14:45
  2. "Unknown Soldier" (Vocal) – 16:23

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Fela Kuti discography Archived May 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , accessed May 9, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Smith, J., AllMusic review, accessed May 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. ISBN   9780743201698.
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