So what do you guys think of the latest Antibalas album? I've always thought they were great live but that their studio recordings lacked something.. maybe it was just the imitation Fela that got to me, but in principle I have nothing against modern afrobeat. It's like their tracks lacked that extra "oh, yeah, ahuh, [...]
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestras: Super bad Brooklyn based funk group carries the afro-beat torch originally lit decades ago by one Fela Kuti. The correlation between the summers rising temperature, and the increased play of the collectives latest LP, Security, is no random coincidence. This is truly heat music. Elsewhere: Download live Antibalas Afro-beat Orchestra [...]
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra -- Sí, Se Puede Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra are a Brooklyn-based musical collective expanding the sound laid out by Fela Kuti, who originated the term Afrobeat and set its political tenor in the 1970s. Si alguien te dice que no se puede hacer algo, só dílo <<sí, se puede. Mientras vivo, mientras respiro, lo haré, lo hago, hacerlo yo sigo.>> I've seen this one listed as "si se puede." It is not. "Sí, se puede" means "Yes, it's possible" whereas "si se puede" means "if it's possible." [...]
Antibalas - Hilo (Anti- 2007) Antibalas – Security / Anti- The opening track of Antibalas's fourth proper full-length kicks off with staccato horn flares and a tinny polyrhythm, which is nothing too much out of the ordinary for this band of afrobeat, afro-latin and deep funk connoisseurs, but about half-way through it falls into a grooving rhythm of slightly overmodulated drums, a weird kind of space-funk keyboard bounce, handclaps and subtle touches of electronics followed by a breakdown consisting solely of percussively played metal (not the genre [...]
I see more and more hits coming down the pike. Feb. 20 Explosions in the Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone ~ Welcome, Ghosts k-os: Atlantis (Hymns For Disco) ~ Fly Paper March 5 Anitbalas: Security ~ I.C.E. What new releases are you looking forward to? Leave a hullabaloo. Pre-order them all from Amazon . Previous Crystal Balls: One ~ Two ~ Three ~ Four
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