Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears & Blood [New Vinyl LP] Digital Download

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Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears & Blood [New Vinyl LP] Digital Download

Artist: Fela Kuti

Title: Sorrow Tears & Blood

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: International

UPC: 720841204312

Release Date: 2014

Record Label: Knitting Factory

Album Tracks

1. Sorrow Tears and Blood
2. Colonial Mentality

Fela wrote the title track of this album in response to the 1976 Soweto Uprising in which thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans, the colonial language of Apartheid. During the uprising and the ensuing riots, hundreds of students were killed. The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as well as the instruments of repression of colonial Africa - the police and the army. The music parallels the somber tone of the lyrics; focused and direct, and avoids the usual bombastic funk of Fela compositions.

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