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Sorrow Tears & Blood by Kuti, Fela (Record, 2014)

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Artist: Fela Kuti. During the uprising and the ensuing riots, hundreds of students were killed. Title: Sorrow Tears & Blood. Sorrow Tears and Blood. Format: Vinyl LP.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelKFW, Knitting Factory

UPC0720841204312

eBay Product ID (ePID)26046095765

Product Key Features

Release Year2014

FormatRecord

GenreInternational

ArtistKuti, Fela

Release TitleSorrow Tears & Blood

Dimensions

Item Height0.18 in

Item Weight0.50 lb

Item Length12.34 in

Item Width8.99 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks2

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Sorrow Tears and Blood 1.2 Colonial Mentality

Number of Discs1

NotesFela wrote the title track of this album in response to the 1976 Soweto Uprising in which thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans, the colonial language of Apartheid. During the uprising and the ensuing riots, hundreds of students were killed. The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as well as the instruments of repression of colonial Africa - the police and the army. The music parallels the somber tone of the lyrics; focused and direct, and avoids the usual bombastic funk of Fela compositions.