African albums that influenced Talking Heads?

just listen to Fela Kuti on youtube and go away will you

Fela Kuti - Zombie and
Afrodesiac

it's called Afrobeat and you start with Fela Kuti

Eno and Byrne both loved Fela Kuti and were pretty much openly imitating his style at some points on that album
Fela is definitely the nost important afrobeat artist, he invented the genre. Byrne's favorite Fela albums were Expensive Shit and Zombie with Eno's was Afrodisiac so you can start with those

>>69103451
>African
>albums
top rockist, m8

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thanks a bunch will listen to him

it's mostly bullshit. people love to go on about "african rhythms" like they're prominent, but really it just means there are a few bits of auxiliary percussion way in the background that have little to nothing to do with the rest of the music. i dare someone to give me something other than "nuh-uh"

>>69104179
do you know what a polyrhythm is? even without the small parts of african percussion they would still be in there.

>>69104179
>Brian Eno introduced Fela Kuti's multiple rhythm music style to the band, and during production Eno used a different rhythm count for some members of the group than others, starting on the "3" instead of the "1." It gave the song what Eno called "a funny balance within it. It has really two centers of gravity: their '1' and my '1.'" This rhythm imbalance was exaggerated in the studio, and is present throughout the song.[6]

and that is just once in a lifetime

>>69104479
oh lol sorry. i forgot polyrhythms were exclusive to africa