Browse by Artist: ANTIBALAS

Artist:	ANTIBALAS
Title:	Talkatif
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 066CD

"New record by Brooklyn's hardest working afro-beat collective. Antibalas (Spanish for 'Bulletproof,' literally 'Anti-bullets') is the next generation of Afrobeat in the tradition of the Black President, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. This fifteen plus piece band hits hard with the left and the right -- monstrous horns and bass layered over funky polyrhythmic beats and breaks coupled with furious lyrics challenging and attacking the dehumanizing capitalist system and inciting insurrection in English, Yoruba, and Spanish. Antibalas formed in May 1998 from members of Desco Records' Soul Providers and the Daktaris. They were quickly joined by like-minded New York musicians active in the worlds of jazz, rock, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and Brazil. This union of Latinos, whites, African-Americans, Africans and Asian-Americans is based in Brooklyn, NYC."

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