Red Hot + Fela

[darkglow]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EF1PL2W?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00EF1PL2W&linkCode=xm2&tag=musidelmund-20



Red Hot + Fela is the 18th in a series of original albums to raise money and awareness in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The release includes classic Fela anthems like "Lady" recorded by tUnE-yArDs, Questlove, Angelique Kidjo, and Akua Naru, "Zombie" recorded by Spoek Mathambo, Cerebral Cortex, and Frown, and "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am" recorded by My Morning Jacket, Merrill Garbus (from tUnE-yArDs), and Brittany Howard (from Alabama Shakes) and "Sorrow, Tears & Blood" reworked by the Kronos Quartet along with TV On The Radios' Kyp Malone and Tunde Adembimpe.

I remember back in 2006 at northwestern U when MMJ played a extended version of Don Dante that was basically a jam on fela kuti's "trouble sleep yang wake AM"

http://archive.org/download/mmj2006-04-22.flac16/mmj2006-04-22d1t09_vbr.mp3

and every since I have always been forced to listen to that audience recording that has a lot of annoying talking kids.. will be cool to have this to listen to instead!

[SaraBananaBear]

Oooh, interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[Crispy]

This is great! I have loved hearing that live version, and it'll be so nice to have it here (and without a few of those weird notes from somebody's sax).

[darkglow]

According to iTunes the track is 14 minutes long!! 

[snuggalo1]

The entire album is streaming on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2013/09/29/226165955/first-listen-red-hot-fela 

[Taterbug]

I remember back in 2006 at northwestern U when MMJ played a extended version of Don Dante that was basically a jam on fela kuti's "trouble sleep yang wake AM"

This was my 2nd show. It was a show for students and I had to stalk the campus for a ticket.  I think I payed like $ 60 to the greedy little bastard.  I can't blame him for the cost of the tuition at NU.  I saw it in the show taping archives.  I'm gonna have to DL tonight when I get home. 

[davymac]

I can't get enough of this right now!

[spence]

Wow, that is so good.  And different.

[CC]

on Fallon next friday, 10/11

[buster douglas]

Does anybody know when this was recorded?

[johnnYYac]

"Like new" CD available on eBay for $5.95 + $2.50 shipping.  Ends in an hour...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-RED-HOT-FELA-2013-CD-My-Morning-Jacket-Angelique-Kidjo-Kyp-Malone-/300982987477?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item4613fbead5

[CC]

Fallon video:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/my-morning-jacket-ft-brittany-howard-and-merrill-garbus/n41891/

[mgobugsy]

Thanx, CC.   

[searchinbig]

Soooo sweet. Hope this may be some indication of where the new record may be going.

The boys never cease to amaze!

[bartel]

this would be a great sound for their new album very very exotic. It's an amazing performance.

[layin low]

I remember back in 2006 at northwestern U when MMJ played a extended version of Don Dante that was basically a jam on fela kuti's "trouble sleep yang wake AM"

This was my 2nd show. It was a show for students and I had to stalk the campus for a ticket.  I think I payed like $ 60 to the greedy little bastard.  I can't blame him for the cost of the tuition at NU.  I saw it in the show taping archives.  I'm gonna have to DL tonight when I get home.

Wow! So great to learn the history of that. I think they played that Dondante version a few times that year, maybe even at Bonnaroo?

[B]

Yeah, my recording of the 2006 Bonnaroo has the Fela Kuti jam worked in to Dondante so seamlessly, amazing to discover where that jam is from all of these years later.

[tdb810]

This song definitely stood out for me at the Times Square show...had never heard it, and now I have these lyrics trapped in my head:

When Trouble sleep,
Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o)
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

Tenant lost him job,
Him sit down for house,
Him dey think of job,
Mr. Landord come wake am up,
He say, "Mister, pay me your rent"
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

My friend just come from prison,
Him dey look for work,
Waka waka day and night,
Police man come stop am for road,
He say, "Mister, I charge you for wandering"
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

Mr. Husband marry for church,
He make big party,
Then he start to spray,
Because him love him wife,
Him say, "wife come run away"
Bank manager run come,
He say, "Mister, pay me your debt"
Waking him dey find, for Lagos e-o
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

When Trouble sleep,
Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver, he go get-e o

When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver, he go get e-o

[tdb810]

This song definitely stood out for me at the Times Square show...had never heard it, and now I have these lyrics trapped in my head:

When Trouble sleep,
Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o)
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

Tenant lost him job,
Him sit down for house,
Him dey think of job,
Mr. Landord come wake am up,
He say, "Mister, pay me your rent"
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

My friend just come from prison,
Him dey look for work,
Waka waka day and night,
Police man come stop am for road,
He say, "Mister, I charge you for wandering"
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

Mr. Husband marry for church,
He make big party,
Then he start to spray,
Because him love him wife,
Him say, "wife come run away"
Bank manager run come,
He say, "Mister, pay me your debt"
Waking him dey find, for Lagos e-o
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver

When Trouble sleep,
Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver, he go get-e o

When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver, he go get-e o
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver, he go get e-o

a bit of insight into the lyrics.....
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am: Broken English translation of 'Trouble Sleep Yanga Am' literally means: 'toying with a loaded gun' or 'playing with fire'. It is a song talking about the limit to human endurance. Mr. Trouble is lying quietly and Mr. Provocation (yanga) goes to play around him. What else could he be looking for except palaver. A good example of such trouble-shooting is that of a man who has just got out of prison and goes about desperately looking for work in order to avoid what led him to jail. While at it, a police man stops and charges the man for wandering. Fela asks what could the police man be looking for, but trouble. It is like when a cat is asleep and a rat goes to bite its tail. Or a tenant who has just lost his job, sitting quietly thinking of where his next meal will come from. His landlord comes knocking, demanding his rent. Of cause he will get trouble bigger than the rent he came to collect. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am simply means there is a limit to any human endurance.

- Mabinuori Kayode Idowu

[kewi]

I hate how I have to purchase the entire album and can't purchase just the song. Grrr...