♦ Finding Fela! ⇓ Official Trailer (2014) – Documentary
Φ Music Is The Weapon ⇒
♦ Filmed in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1982, this 53-minute documentary mixes footage of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) performing at his Shrine nightclub, interviews with the controversial musician, glimpses of life at his not-so-palatial Kalakuta Republic compound, and scenes of Lagos street life. Some voice-over narration gives viewers basic information on Kuti’s musical career and Nigerian politics, but for the most part, the images are left to speak for themselves…
The highlights are the scenes at the Shrine, where Kuti and his band perform {«ITT,»} {«Army Arrangement,»} {«Power Show,»} and {«Authority Stealing,»} the lithe frontman decked out in various colorful suits (or, sometimes, with nothing but briefs and, at others, with gaudy face paint). The interview segments cover his resistance to the Nigerian regime, his controversial polygamous lifestyle, and his arrests and beatings, though the accents (particularly when other members of his extended family are interviewed) are sometimes hard for North Americans to understand. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
«Music is a weapon of the future
music is the weapon of the progressives music is the weapon of the givers of life.» Fela Kuti
•→Don’t Gag Me – Je nwi Temi (1971)←
◊ ‘Sorrow Tears & Blood’ ⇓
Everybody run run run
Everybody scatter scatter
Some people lost some bread
Some one nearly die
Some one just die
Police dey come, Army dey come
Confusion everywhere
Seven minutes later
All done cool down, brother
Police don go away
Army don disappear
Dem leave Sorrow, Tears, and Blood (2x)
Dem regular trade mark
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem regular trade mark . . .
Everybody run run run
Everybody scatter scatter
Some people lost some bread
Some one nearly die
Some one just die
Police dey come, Army dey come
Confusion everywhere
Seven minutes later
All done cool down, brother
Police don go away
Army don disappear
Dem leave Sorrow, Tears, and Blood (2x)
Dem regular trade mark
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem regular trade mark . . .
La, la, la, la
My people self dey fear too much
Dem fear for the thing we no see
Dem fear for the air around us
We fear to fight for freedom
We fear to fight for liberty
We fear to fight for justice
We fear to fight for happiness
We always get reason to fear
We no want die
We no want quench** **(destroy)
Mama dey for house
Papa dey for house
I get one wife
I get one car
I get one house
I just build house
I wan enjoy
So policeman go slap your face
You no go talk
Army man go whip your yansh** **(ass)
You go dey look like donkey
Rhodesia dey do dem own
Our leaders dey yab for nothing
South Africa dey do dem own
Dem leave Sorrow, Tears, and Blood
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem regular trade mark
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem leave Sorrow, Tears, and Blood
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem regular trade mark . . .
That is why-y-y
Everybody run run run
Everybody scatter scatter
Some people lost some bread
Some one nearly die
Some one just die
Police dey come, Army dey come
Confusion everywhere
Time dey go
Time no wait for nobody
Police dey come
Like this
**[make siren noise with voice]
Everybody run run run
Everybody scatter scatter
Some people lost some bread
Some one nearly die
Some one just die
Police dey come, Army dey come
Confusion everywhere
Seven minutes later
All done cool down, brother
Police don go away
Army don disappear
Dem leave Sorrow, Tears, and Blood (2x)
Dem regular trade mark
*(CHORUS) DEM REGULAR TRADE MARK
Dem regular trade mark . . .
◊ ‘Water No Get Enemy’ ⇓
To ba fe lo weh omi lo- malo <>
If you wan go wash- water you go use
Toba fe sobeh omi lo- malo
If you wan cook soup- water you go use
To ri ba ngbona omi lero lero
If your head be hot- water it cool am
Tomo ba ngagda omi lo- malo
If your child dey grow- water you go use
If water kill your child- water you go use
Tobi ba bwi nao homi lo- malo
Ko sohun tole se ko ma lomi- o
Nothing without water (repeat this couplet)
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*[CHORUS] WATER, IT NO GET ENEMY – [AFTER EACH LINE]
Oh me a water-o
No go fight am, unless you wan die
I say water No get enemy
No go fight am, unless you wan die
O me a water-o
O they talk of Black-man power
O they talk of Black power, I say
I say water No get enemy
No go fight am, unless you wan die
I say water No get enemy . . .
O me a water-o . . .
______________________________________________ • WATER NO GET ENEMY: EXPLANATION
The «water» is the Nigerian common people. The Government/Military must not make enemies of the populous, nor disturb their «flow» (endevours & routines)- as it is dangerous to make an enemy of the country’s most essential resource. The people make everything happen.
Nothing exists without water – Water does not gain enemies because if you fight (renounce)water, you will die
Power cannot exist without the people…
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♦ → Fela Kuti Speaks ↓ [with subtitles]
Listen to Fela in an interview backstage where he talked about his background, his music not for entertainment, and those apart from his immediate family whom he held in high esteem. Also you can listen to extracts of his songs ‘ODOO’ Overtake Don Overtake Overtake live and his unpublished work ‘BBC’ Big Blind Country. Finally, have a «ball» with him in a live «yabbis» session, all of these from the Pepple Street Africa Shrine in Ikeja.
–Mabinuori Kayode IDOWU aka ID.
¤ Read about FELA KUTI & THE KALAKUTA REPUBLIC ↓
→ http://www.noripcord.com/features/fela-kuti-and-kalakuta-republic
• Visit Kalakuta Republic Museum ↓
Afrobeat legend’s Kalakuta Republic on Gbemisola Street has been opened as ‘Kalakuta Republic’ Museum by the Lagos State Government led by Barrister Babatunde Raji Fashola.
The museum houses all Fela’s memorabilia, including his clothes, shoes, equipment and other items. The event was tagged soft opening, according to Fela’s daughter, Yeni Kuti. The museum consists of his bedroom, sitting rooms, photographs, with over 3,000 of Fela’s clothes on display. She said the hotel and other aspects of the museum will be commissioned later. Yeni said the public will be able to see the last bedsheet Fela used before he died in 1997, his saxophone and others.
Fela’s producer and artist, Lemmy Gariokwu, the curator of the museum, said by the time other necessary things have been put in place people will be seeing Fela as in his real life.
→ http://digitaljournal.com/article/334911
→ www.360nobs.com/2012/10/fela-kuti-lives-on-fela-museum-kalakuta-republic-opens-photos/
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¤ Ali Farka Touré [1939-2006]
♦ Short film about Ali Farka Touré‘s album ‘Savane’, with Bassekou Kouyaté & Mama Sissoko on the ngoni.
Directed by Cosima Spender ↓
◊→ Ali Farka Toure, The Man & The Music – by Corey Harris
«Ali Farka Toure was a master multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. He profoundly influenced Malian musicians as well as those across the African continent and around the world. In 2001 and 2002 I visited Ali Farka Toure at his home in Niafunke, near Timbuktu in northern Mali. We played music together talked about the blues and its roots in Africa. The result of our meeting was a documentary film directed by Martin Scorcese (Feel Like Going Home) and an album featuring blues and traditional Malian music (Mississippi to Mali).»◊→ ‘Tulumba’ – [Niafunke] ⇐
♦ Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté ↓ Kala Djula
♦ Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré ⇓ ‘Duna Ma Yelema’
◊ ‘Hawa Dolo’ ↓ [The Source – 1992]
♦ Yulli, Ketiné, Ai Du ↓
•→Africa Festival [Lisbon_2005]⇐
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