Name: Kalakuta Show & Ikoyi Blindness
Brand: Relativity Entertainment
SKU: 778369
Price: 102 USD
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Album: Kalakuta Show & Ikoyi Blindness

Song Title

Time

Ikoyi Blindness

Gba Mi Leti Ki N' Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)

Kalakuta Show

Don't Make Garan Garan

Album: Kalakuta Show & Ikoyi Blindness

Song Title

Time

Ikoyi Blindness

Gba Mi Leti Ki N' Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)

Kalakuta Show

Don't Make Garan Garan

Performer Notes

Personnel: Fela Kuti (vocals, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano); Oghene Kologbo (tenor guitar); Christopher Uwaifor (tenor saxophone); Lekan Animashaun (baritone saxophone); Stephen Ukem, Tunde Williams (trumpet); Franco Aboddy (bass guitar); Tony Allen (drums); Henry Kofi, Shina Abiodun, Nicholas Addo (congas); Isaac Olaleye (maracas).
Audio Mixer: Demola Odebiyi.
Liner Note Author: Mabinuori Kayode Idowu.
Photographer: Bankole Osunle.
Arranger: Fela Kuti.
By the time of 1976's Kalakuta Show, Fela Kuti's releases seemed not so much like records as ongoing installments in one long jam, documenting the state of mind of Nigeria's leading contemporary musician and ideological/political dissenter. Thus, any one album works better on its own than it does when it has to bear comparison with the rest of his mountainous output. The track "Kalakuta Show" was unexceptional by his own standards, though it was a respectable lock-groove song that followed the usual graph of Kuti's song progressions. The lyrics, at any rate, go far outside the usual funk/pop spectrum, detailing his harassment at the hands of the Nigerian police. "Don't Make Garan Garan" was musically more effective, particularly in its use of the artist's characteristically eerie, out-of-sync-sounding electric keyboards. ~ Richie Unterberger