TUNDE WILLIAMS
MR BIG MOUTH
& LEKAN ANIMASHAUN
LOW PROFILE (Honest Jon's Music, two LPs or both on one CD)

A couple of Nigerian rarities: Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band, Africa 70, at the height of their popularity in Africa at the end of the seventies, jamming on four tunes. Each jam is about 12 minutes of the the slow sweaty groove you associate with Fela and each features one of his sidemen. Mr Big Mouth was Tunde Williams, lead trumpeter, and clearly a fan of Miles Davis. He turns in a brace of tunes. The second pair comes from Baba Ani, the baritone sax player. Fela sticks to keyboard and second sax. No hassle, just a mellow late-night groove. Actually there are lyrics, but not Fela's, some of the other band members recorded indistinctly do a sing-along chorus in what sounds like a live recording. A slice of low-fi funk n' fun from the clubs of Nigeria: It's one for the die-hard Sufferers and Shmilers. -- Doctor Rhythm