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SEUN KUTI AND EGYPT 80
CUT DIRECT-TO-DISC SESSION
FOR NIGHT DREAMER DEBUT (Order Now)

Seun Kuti, youngest son of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and leader of his father’s Egypt 80 band, entered the Artone Studio in Haarlem, Holland, earlier this year to cut a direct to disc session in a single take.

The first to be released on the Night Dreamer label, the session brought some of the foremost afrobeat musicians in the world together, many of whom cut their teeth playing with Fela himself.

Inheriting both his father’s musicality and political activism, Seun was only fourteen when his father died, and has played with the band for over twenty years, first as a singer and then as a saxophonist in his father’s mould.

For the Night Dreamer session, the band took a day to acclimatise themselves to the recording process, sound check levels, and perform a few test cuts, with Seun was the central figure throughout, orchestrating the band with the assurance of his father.

Playing without the safety of multiple takes, Seun and Egypt 80 cut all four tracks (two per side) in a single take without rehearsal on the second day, improvising with all the focus and relaxation of...

 
 
 

CREDITS

 
 

SEUN ANIKULAPO-KUTI
SAXOPHONE, LEAD SINGER

DAVID OBANYEDO
LEAD GUITAR

KUNLE JUSTICE
BASS

AKIN BAMIDELE
RYTHM GUITAR

ADEBOWALE OSUNNIBU
BARYTONE SAXOPHONE

OJO DAVID
TENOR SAXOPHONE

OLADIMEJI AKINYELE
TRUMPET

IDOWU ADEFOLARIN
TRUMPET

IYABO ADENIRAN
BACKING VOCALS

JOY OPERA
BACKING VOCALS

OKON IYAMBA
SHEKERE

SHINA ABIODUN
DRUMS

KOLA ONASANYA
PERCUSSIONS

WALE TORIOLA
PERCUSSIONS

ALL SONG WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY
SEUN KUTI

ALL SONGS PUBLISHED BY
BMG MUSIC PUBLISHING

RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED
MARTIJN SCHOUTEN

CUTTING ENGINEER
PATRICK SCHOLTENS @ARTONE STUDIO, HAARLEM

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
GEORGE FROM CAMDEN STEPHEN BUDD & NEAL BIRNIE

PRESSED AND
MANUFACTURED AT
RECORD INDUSTRY

© 2019 NIGHT DREAMER LTD

PHOTOGRAPHY
ELAINE GROENESTEIN

SLEEVE DESIGN
KAI DAMIAN MATTHIESEN

SPECIAL THANKS
TON & MIEKE VERMEULEN ANOUK RIJNDERS
EVERYONE AT RECORD INDUSTRY AND ARTONE STUDIO

RECORDED LIVE AND CUT DIRECT-TO- DISC AT ARTONE STUDIOS, HAARLEM, THE NETHERLANDS ON MONDAY 27TH & TUESDAY 28TH MAY 2019

 

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