Yellow Fever / Na Poi

Fela Kuti

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B00000JSR6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #226,401 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Yellow Fever

2. Na Poi

3. Na Poi (Part 1&2)

4. You No Go Die... Unless

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Two Releases on One CD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Jason's Review Suggests, July 1, 2000

By	Willee O Jones (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This CD has all the rythmic subtlety of Fela's best recordings. Anything with Tony Allen's drumming deserves four stars!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice contrast, September 10, 2002

By	Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

"Yellow Fever" is definitely a more accessible album, more directly linked to the mellow, hypnotic Nigerian highlife/juju pop style, while "Na Poi" is more of an experimental, difficult-listening album. It's interesting to hear the two different versions of the song "Na Poi," both extended Fela-style jams, but with radically different approaches... give you a pretty good sense of the kind of stylistic range these guys had. I agree that "Yellow Fever" is more fun, but hey... as long as they're gonna throw an extra album's worth of material on the same CD, I ain;t gonna complain. #8-)

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good overall, December 20, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Austin, Texas - United States) - See all my reviews

Yellow Fever is very good and catchy, typically excellent Fela. Na Poi is one of my least favorite. It's ok, but nothing really reaches out and grabs you.