Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album)
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| Unknown Soldier | ||||
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| Studio album by Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti and his Africa 70 | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Studio | Phonodisk Studio, Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun, Nigeria | |||
| Genre | Afrobeat | |||
| Length | 31:08 | |||
| Label | Skylark SKLP 003 | |||
| Producer | Fela Kuti | |||
| Fela Kuti chronology | ||||
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Unknown Soldier is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, recorded in 1979 and originally released on the Nigerian Skylark label.[1]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
AllMusic stated: "An epic 31-minute tribute to his fallen mother, Unknown Soldier is one of the most ambitious recordings of Kuti's career which describes in frightening detail the events that transpired on the eve of the Kalakuta raid.... Kuti gives a tortured, powerful performance of some of his most vivid and incendiary music – music that was in many ways the ideological equal of the physical torture that Kuti and his company had endured".[2]
