He Miss Road was produced by none other than Ginger Baker, who was a semi-regular jamming partner of Fela Kuti's as well as a close friend.
And the tunes Fela wrote for this platter are wild, cosmic, sexy as hell, and deeply saturated in funk à la James Brown.
The B-3 solo at the beginning of the title track is simply a device for inviting the band in.
The B-3 is way up in the mix, supercharged.
The echo effects Baker used on the organ and the horns add a nice touch and create a different textural quality, one that is spacious, to be sure, but still rooted in the shamanic repetition as the riff goes on forever no matter what instruments enter or leave the mix.
The vocals show up midway through as everything gets tense and explodes.
"Monday Morning in Lagos" is deep, dark, swirling Afro-funk.
It's moody, spooky, and its organ line just stitches the whole groove together.
The final cut, "It's No Promise," is pure Nigerian trance music.
The longest track here, it's also the most abstract.
It's held together by Tony Allen's drumming and the popping bassline by Franco Aboddy.
This is one of Fela's cookers, an album from his most creative period, and it reigns among the best in his extensive catalog.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He Miss Road | Fela Kuti & Africa 70, Fela Kuti | Play | 10:47 | 24 MB | 61 MB |
| 2 | Monday Morning in Lagos | Fela Kuti & Africa 70, Fela Kuti | Play | 11:13 | 25 MB | 61 MB |
| 3 | It's No Possible | Fela Kuti | Play | 17:37 | 40 MB | 104 MB |
| 39 mins | 90 MB | |||||
| 39 mins | 228 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fela Kuti | Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 2 | Fela Kuti & Africa 70 | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |