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TheFlyingCarpet #11 episode starts with a tribute to the 50 years of Motown Records. Tree song to celebrate this hstoric record labels: Willie Hutch with "Brothers Gonna Work It Out”, from 1973; Smokey Robinson with Why You Wanna See My Bad Side“, from 1978's LP Cool Breeze; and The Temptation feat. Rick James with “Standing on the Top”, 1982's anthem.
After this, we move quickly in Nigeria, where we meet The Funkees, a spectacular nigerian funky band that release only two LP's, and we listen the classic “Dancing Time”, from 1977's Now I'm A Man, and the les classic “Abraka”, from the 1974's first LP Point of No Return.
We stay in Nigeria but we move back and forth in the time. First we meet again Seun Kuti, to listen another song of the great new LP Many Things, the powerful “African Problems”. Secondly we meet Fela Ransome Kuti, firstly with Africa 70's, in a 13' song Sense Wiseness, the B side of the 75's LP Monkey Banana, and after with his Koola Lobitos, with “Omuti Soul”, from the Lagos Baby reedition of Vampisoul. Finally, to conclude the flight, we meet Hugh Masekela introducing the Hedzoleh Soundz, edited by Chisa Records in 1975, with “Kaa Ye Oya”.
That's all for this week. Enjoy the flight and come back to visit us.