Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit amber Hot-Bip showcases Laurent’s best musical

Hot-Bip showcases Laurent’s best musical output from the 80’s and includes some very avant-garde pieces from as early as 1979

but lacking anything that could be considered for a single release it was unsurprisingly not a commercial success

He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building by a Beatles fan

Indulge the myth and the moon: Callisto

Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit amber Hot-Bip showcases Laurent’s best musicalBorn: 15 October 1938, in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Died: 2 August 1997, of AIDS and heart failure in Lagos, Nigeria. He formed his first group Koola Lobitos in 1963. The large jazz, funk, and afrobeat collective underwent many changes in the following decades but the style remained the same thanks to Fela's vision and other key members such as drummer Tony Allen. In 1969 after visiting America, Fela returned to Nigeria and opened club Afro Spot in Lagos