Fela Kuti – Original Sufferhead (LP, Play it again Sam)

Original SufferheadFela Kuti12 Album Coloured VinylGenre: World MusicLabel: Knitting FactoryDescription: This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’ and now on this reissue the title track of this magnificent album is presented in its full-length 25 minutes 24 seconds glory. While preparing the master disc for the box set our engineer Jedi Colin Young discovered four minutes of ‘lost’ material on the B-side of the original pressing including a superb keyboard solo by Fela. This had been omitted from subsequent reissues. The restored version used here starts and finishes with Fela’s keyboard work a typically venturesome blend of futurism and visceralism. ‘Original Sufferhead’ was the first album Fela released under Egypt 80’s name (he had disbanded Afrika 70 in 1979).