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Music: Global

Antibalas

When

Sunday Oct 5, 2008 (10pm)

Where

Spiegelworld

Pier 17

South St & Beekman St

212.279.4200

Price

$20

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Spiegelworld says…

When Nigeria's Fela Kuti created Afrobeat — a fusion of jazz improvisation, blistering funk bass, and local Yoruba percussion — his firebrand lyrics landed him in prison more than a hundred times, and his music remained largely obscured from global audiences. Decades later, the Afrobeat scene is booming, and Martin Perna's Antibalas are at its forefront. Tonight, the Brooklyn dozen plays the final performance of Broadway tribute Fela! and moves the encore to Spiegelworld, where its dubby digressions merge with Fela's unforgettable energy, at once reviving and reinventing the genre for a new generation.