Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears & Blood Patten åÊwhile ‰ÛÏMorning Dew‰۝ treats the

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3-time Grammy-award-winner

confident without being pompous

at times startling so

savouring bits and pieces and re-contextualising them into entirely delightful and playfully intricate songs

Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears & Blood Patten åÊwhile ‰ÛÏMorning Dew‰۝ treats theSorrow, Tears & Blood: Fela wrote this album in response to the 1976 Soweto Uprising in which thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans, the colonial language of Apartheid. During the uprising hundreds were killed. The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as well as the instruments of repression in colonial Africa the police and the army. The music parallels the