Modern Griots Review: Wangechi Mutu’s A Fantastic Journey

To have a fantastic imagination requires a fluidity of perception of reality and that encapsulates Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, A Fantastic Journey. Mutu’s medium of collage artwork provides a natural basis for her ideas that combine an ancient mythic and animistic values with the futuristic cyborg concepts to comment on global modern […]

Fela Kuti Meets De La Soul…

Gummy Soul artist, Amerigo Gazaway, combined the music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and Hip-Hop’s legendary group De La Soul to create “Fela Soul.” The song above is called “Breakadawn” and uses samples from Kuti’s “Water Get No Enemy” and De La Soul’s “Breakadawn.” This is one of the best fusion/mashups that I have ever […]