Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac: 50th Anniversary LP (Red & Green Vinyl) Fashion

‘Afrodisiac’ is the fifth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like its predecessors in the series, this double LP edition is on color vinyl; the A B side is green marble and C D side is on red marble. The LP will be wrapped in a gold foil OBI strip with a brief essay on the album and Fela s global impact on music. The songs on Afrodisiac were tracks that Fela and the Nigeria 70 (Later Africa 70) re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1972 after they had become hits in Nigeria. The best known song on the album is Jeun Ko Ku , a satire about gluttony and Fela s first major hit across West Africa. In Pidgin English the title means chop and quench , which, in turn, means eat and die in Standard English. Afrodisiac was first re-issued on vinyl in 2014 as part of the Fela Box Set #3 curated by Brian Eno