Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Africa 70 – Confusion LP
Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Africa 70
Confusion
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Original 1974 pressing! Confusion captures Fela & The Africa 70 band at their peak with drummer Tony Allen building and breaking tension through deep afrobeat grooves.
This Afrobeat epic contains just one eponymous track clocking in at just over 25 minutes in length, and beginning with a mysterious and psychedelic musical interplay between Fela on organ and Tony Allen on drums. As the song takes on a righteously funky groove, Fela evokes the chaos of Lagos — the multitude of regional dialects, the gnarly traffic jams, the absence of a policeman to take charge — as a metaphor for the larger problems of post-colonial Nigeria.