Afro-psychedelia. This is the heat. Having found ourselves knee-deep in all things Joni Haastrup of late, we were reminded of this incredibly funky, fly-on-the-wall, 1971 footage of the Nigerian musician laying shit down with Ginger Baker. Along with a cache of locals (Tunde Kuboye, Laolu Akins, The Lijadu Sisters, Segun Bucknor & The Sweet Things), the clip finds the group riffing on Tunde Kuboye’s “Coming Back Home.”
Category: Ginger Baker
Fela Kuti In Performance / Ginger Baker Footage (1971)
Netflix is currently streaming Ginger Baker In Africa , an incredibly loose documentary surrounding the British percussion wizard’s trip from Algeria to Lagos, Nigeria in November of 1971. And by ‘loose’ I mean 53 minutes of (ostensibly) amateur footage […]