THE ELECTRIC BIBLE | CHAPTER 166

A prime example of Afrobeat by its originator and prime purveyor, Fela Kuti. With stylistic links to American funk, American post-jazz funk and the new roots reggae emerging from Jamaica, Gentleman shows how Fela’s modified, politically-informed native African music sits at the heart of all its diasporic offshoots. Driving polyrhythms, blazing horns and call-and-response vocals make Afrobeat one of the most vital music forms of the 70s, and its influence would become even more apparent a few years later in the fourth world fusion experiments conducted by Brian Eno with various collaborators.