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Upside Down by Kuti, Fela (Record, 2016)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelKnitting Factory, KFW

UPC0720841205913

eBay Product ID (ePID)9046037787

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2016

GenreInternational

ArtistKuti, Fela

Release TitleUpside Down

Dimensions

Item Height0.18 in

Item Weight0.64 lb

Item Length12.33 in

Item Width12.09 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks2

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Upside Down - Fela Kuti 1.2 Go Slow - Fela Kuti

Number of Discs1

Notes180gm vinyl LP pressing. Upside Down and Zombie, both released in 1976, were made at the mid-point of an extraordinary three-year purple period during which Fela recorded 24 albums of new material. Upside Down is unusual in that it includes a second lead vocalist, Fela's American friend Sandra Izsadore, who he'd known since touring the US in 1969. Izsadore, a black rights activist, introduced him to the writings of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and other revolutionary thinkers. Fela later credited Izsadore with helping inspire his philosophy of Blackism. Izsadore can take credit for something else, too: she affirmed Fela's use of weed. Fela had first smoked in London in 1960 or 1961; during his time with Izsadore, he began to use weed regularly, continuing to do so until the end of his life. "Go Slow" was one of several songs Fela recorded which critiqued the consequences of over-rapid urbanization - in this case, traffic jams - using them as a metaphor to describe deeper social breakdowns.