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- Army Arrangement (1984)
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- Fela Kuti
- Label
- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2041-1
- Release Date
- January 1, 2012
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Bill Laswell’s mix of Army Arrangement for the Celluloid label was an act of gross cultural-arrogance. With Fela in jail on trumped up currency-smuggling charges when the time came to make the final mix, the label approached Dennis Bovell . But Bovell was unavailable and so Celluloid house producer Bill Laswell was drafted in. Laswell was contemptuous of the album. In an interview with Musician magazine, he was quoted as saying: “All of Fela’s horn solos were abysmal (and) were erased…We mixed the LP in five minutes, as a favor…You can talk about Africa and fucking politics for days, but the fact is that keyboard player Bernie Worrell and drummer Sly Dunbar, drafted in by Laswell are high-grade musicians and Fela’s in jail.” Friends smuggled a cassette of Laswell’s version inside to Fela. Listening to it, he said later, was "worse than being in prison.”
First re-issued as part of Fela Kuti Box Set #4 curated by Erykah Badu in 2018. Originally released by Celluloid US/UK..
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Army Arrangement
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Government Chicken Boy
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Fela Kuti
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- Artist
- Fela Kuti
- ReleaseProduct
- V.I.P. Vagabonds In Power (1979)
- Label
- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2034
- Release Date
- December 13, 2019
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- Fela Kuti
- ReleaseProduct
- Yellow Fever (1976)
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2024
- Release Date
- December 13, 2019
- Vinyl
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- Coffin For Head Of State (1981)
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2036
- Release Date
- December 13, 2019
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- Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.) (1977)
- Label
- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2026
- Release Date
- December 13, 2019
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- Artist
- Fela Kuti
- ReleaseProduct
- No Agreement (1979)
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2007
- Release Date
- December 13, 2019
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- Artist
- Fela Kuti
- ReleaseProduct
- Music of Many Colours (1980)
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2037-1
- Release Date
- October 15, 2019
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- Fela Kuti
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- Underground System (1992)
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Catalogue Number
- KFR2045-1
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- October 15, 2015
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Fela Kuti
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- Music is the Weapon Long-Sleeve T-Shirt
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- Knitting Factory Records
- Release Date
- November 17, 2020
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- November 17, 2020
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- November 17, 2020
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- Knitting Factory Records
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- November 17, 2020
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- November 17, 2020
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- Knitting Factory Records
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- November 17, 2020
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- Puff Puff Pass Short-Sleeve T-Shirt
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- Knitting Factory Records
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- November 17, 2020
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- Artist
- Fela Kuti
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- Knitting Factory Records
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- November 17, 2020