In the run-up to Christmas I’ll be posting clips from my Sunday Times list of albums of the year. Antibalas, who provided the on-stage music for Bill T. Jones’ Broadway show, “Fela!”, scored a knock-out with their self-titled CD. The king of Afrobeat would surely have approved.

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