Strut presents the new album from the modern day leader of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti. The youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti is as incensed by injustice as his father ever was and, with his mighty new album Black Times including features from Carlos Santana and Robert Glasper, he honours the revolutionaries who have gone before and rallies the torch-bearers to come. It’s landing March 2018 and available to pre-order now on CD, vinyl and digital formats.
Black Times is
the fourth album by Seun and Egypt 80, the extraordinary dance
orchestra created by Fela Kuti as a conduit for the common people.
Inherited by the 14-year-old Seun in 1997, the younger Kuti has been
building to this, his most accomplished and honest album yet.
‘Black Times’ is the fourth album by Seun and Egypt 80, the extraordinary dance orchestra
created by Fela Kuti. Inherited by the 14-year- old Seun in 1997, the
younger Kuti has been building to this, his most accomplished and honest
album yet. “Black Times is a true reflection of my political and social
beliefs,” says the singer, bandleader and musician, 34. “It is an album
for anybody who believes in change and understands the duty we have to
rise up and come together. The
elites always try to divide the working class and the poor people of the
world. The same oppression felt by workers in Flint, Michigan is felt
by workers in Lagos and Johannesburg.”
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