Alagbon Close

Alagbon Close

Alagbon Close, originally released on the independent Jofabro label in 1974, marks the first full flowering of Afrobeat, as a music and as a principled political philosophy. Instrumentally, the album brings together the several signature elements of Felaâ€™s Afrobeat, which had not previously been moulded into such a unified, finely-balanced form on record. Lyrically, it is a full-on confrontation with an enforcing power of the Nigerian state: Alagbon Close in Lagos was the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department. Many of the musical elements which make Alagbon Close so compelling can be heard on earlier recordings, but on this album, Fela pulled them all together to devastating effect, in the process creating the classic Afrobeat paradigm.
Country USA
Brand FAMILY
Manufacturer Knitting Factory Records
Binding Vinyl
ItemPartNumber 0720841207115
ReleaseDate 2015-10-23
UnitCount 1
UPCs 720841207115
EANs 0720841207115

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