Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The most interesting thing in the NYT review about the Broadway musical Feli! ? Not this... True, this kinetic portrait of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a Nigerian revolutionary of song, has taken on some starry producers — including Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith — and shed 15 or 20 minutes since it was staged Off Broadway last year. ...or this: For there has never been anything...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Geeta Dayal's 33 1/3 book Brian Eno's Another Green World explores the musician at the time of...
turenchi (Free subscription) | yesterday
We gave you the scoop on ‘Fela! The Musical’ in August; Now its here! The musical officially opened on Broadway yesterday. The show which is set to be one of the hottest Broadway tickets of the season is heavily backed by entertainment industry heavyweights including Jay Z and Will Smith. The role of Fela is played by Sahr Ngaujah and Kevin Mambo.The synopsis: Enter the extravagant, decadent,...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Kudos to PopJustice for tipping the planet off to Ellie Goulding and Erik Hassle's quite lovely cover of Robyn's "Be Mine!" The frantic strings and urgent beats that punctuated the pixie-coiffed singer's original version are swapped out here for an acoustic guitar. And you know what? Not only does it work in its own right, it offers a neat reminder that Robyn can write some heart-rending...
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that's why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild. Monday night (November 23) saw the premiere of the [...]
VH1 (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Jay-Z explains why he became a co-producer of the musical "Fela!" about the life and music of the late Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti.
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Jay arrives at the opening night of Fela!, the new Broadway production based on the music of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. I remember ?uestlove raving about this on Twitter last year after catching it during its short off-Broadway run. Jay and Will & Jada put up some bread to finance this new run.
Bossip (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Fela! Hit Broadway for its opening night in NYC Monday evening, and Camel was in attendance sans Bey Bey again… More Images and NYTimes review for “Fela!” under the hood… The hot (and seriously cool) energy that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of “Fela!,” which opened on Monday night, feels as if [...]
undomondo (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
2009's hottest series is hands down Strut Records ' Inspiration Information, which managed to provide not one but two top notch collaborations by mixing and matching legends with talents, first with the Mulatu Astatke and Heliocentrics bid, and now with Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen .
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
John Hollenbeck recombines the familiar in compositions that are startlingly new. His new Eternal Interlude is among the best jazz of 2009. Here, he explains his quirky, fresh methods. Jazz—or creative/improvised music if you prefer to take an artsy stance—doesn't get much more incandescent than Eternal Interludes, the latest recording by the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck's...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by BBG Antibalas in Philly on 6/6 (more by Tim Griffin) Much like The Roots, who they shared the stage with at The Roots Picnic in June, have been doing lately, Antibalas will play a NYC residency. Theirs will take...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A new Broadway musical on the life of Fela Kuti , the phenom whose music I used to love — 'Fela!' and the risks of a firebrand . I once bought tickets to see him perform at the Chautauqua Institution in the early 1990's, but his government did not allow him to leave his country. "Fela scares the hell out of me, [he was] a sacred monster, a megalomaniac who was all razor blades and coffee,"...
http://joolsayodeji.wordpress.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here’s some links to some images of Fela’s Wives. 1, 2, 3 I found it difficult when researching to find much info about his Wives which suggested a direction for the play to me. Any one out there knows of any images then send me a message. This site has a zip file available to download [...]
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
FELA KUTI Beasts Of No Nation / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am Celluloid WORLD LP
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A week to give thanks. We open with newly re-mastered material from Nigeria's Fela Kuti. Then comes N'Dambi with one of the best Soul albums of 2009. And we close with majestic interpretations of "Wise One" by John Coltrane, Dwight Tribble, Archie Shepp, Conrad Herwig & Brian Lynch, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ravi Coltrane. Give mucho [...]
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