Album artwork for Sorrow, Tears and Blood by Fela Kuti

Fela 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.

Fela Kuti

Sorrow, Tears and Blood

Knitting Factory
Album artwork for Sorrow, Tears and Blood by Fela Kuti
LP

$28.99

LP

Released 08/19/2014Catalog Number

LP-KFR-2030

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Fela Kuti

Sorrow, Tears and Blood

Knitting Factory
Album artwork for Sorrow, Tears and Blood by Fela Kuti
LP

$28.99

LP

Released 08/19/2014Catalog Number

LP-KFR-2030

Learn more

Fela 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.