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Red Hot Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti

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Released
  
October 15, 2002

Label
  
MCA Records

Release date
  
15 October 2002

Genre
  
Afrobeat

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Red Hot + Riot (2002)
  
Dark Was the Night (2009)

Producers
  
Paul Heck, Andres Levin, Mike Pela

Similar
  
Red Hot + Indigo, The Best Best of Fela Kuti, Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gers, America Is Dying Slowly, Red Hot + Rio

Water no get enemy


Red Hot + Riot (a.k.a. Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti) is the fourteenth in a series of music compilation projects produced by Paul Heck and John Carlinof the Red Hot Organization and Grammy-winning producer Andres Levin (Music Has No Enemies) to be used as a fundraising tool for AIDS awareness efforts. The album, which takes inspiration from the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was released by MCA on October 15, 2002 and featured more than three dozen artists on a score of tracks.

Contents

It is the fifth overall album in the series to focus chiefly on the work of a single composer or musician, following tributes honoring the works of Cole Porter (Red Hot + Blue), Antônio Carlos Jobim (Red Hot + Rio), George Gershwin (Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove) and Duke Ellington (Red Hot + Indigo).

Track listing

  1. "Fela Mentality" (Intro) – Fela Kuti
  2. "Kalakuta Show" – Mixmaster Mike, Gift of Gab, and Lateef
  3. "Interlude: Live at Kalakuta" – Fela Kuti
  4. "Shuffering and Shmiling" – Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, Jorge Ben, and Bilal
  5. "Interlude: Gimme Shit" – Mixmaster Mike
  6. "Water No Get Enemy" – Mixmaster Mike
  7. "Water No Get Enemy" – D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray, and the Soultronics (featuring Nile Rodgers and Roy Hargrove)
  8. "Gentleman" – Me'Shell NdegéOcello and Yerba Buena (featuring Ron Blake)
  9. "Years of Tears and Sorrow" – Common and Djelimady Tounkara
  10. "Shakara / Lady (Part One)" – Cheikh Lô
  11. "Shakara / Lady (Part Two)" – Cheikh Lô, Les Nubians, and Manu Dibango
  12. "Don't Worry About My Mouth O" (African Message) – Fela Kuti
  13. "Zombie (Part One)" – Bugz in the Attic (featuring Wunmi)
  14. "Zombie (Part Two)" – Nile Rodgers and Roy Hargrove
  15. "No Agreement" – Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul, and Archie Shepp
  16. "So Be It" – Kelis
  17. "Interlude: This Is an Ashanti Proverb" – Fela Kuti
  18. "By Your Side" – Sade (Cottonbelly Remix)
  19. "Colonial Mentality" – Yerba Buena
  20. "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am" – Baaba Maal and Taj Mahal (featuring Kaouding Cissoko and Antibalas)

Songs

1(intro) Fela MentalityMix Master Mike - JR Writer - Mario Caldato Jr1:10
2Kalakuta ShowGift of Gab - Mix Master Mike - Lateef the Truthspeaker2:31
3(interlude) Live at KalakutaAndres Levin - Tosin - Posma - 0:32

References

Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti Wikipedia
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