Fela Ransome-Kuti And The Africa '70 – Open & Close (Vinyl) Leon Bridges This line-up first appeared on

This line-up first appeared on this album

Hold It Now

each of them could have been the title song for the same director’s Private Road

Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman)

Lola Novaković

Fela Ransome-Kuti And The Africa '70 – Open & Close (Vinyl) Leon Bridges This line-up first appeared onAn almost fully formed Afrobeat album, Open & Close is part focused on the dancefloor, part on African liberation. The title tune is a simple exhortation to dance, with instructions on how to perform Fela's choreography. On a more serious note, "Gbagada Gbagada Gbogodo Gbogodo" tells the story of the Egba people's armed resistance to invading British colonialists. As a songwriter, Fela was more often concerned with the repressive rule of Nigeria's