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Antibalas bring the energy of afrobeat and jazz, and the fire of funk and dub, modelled from Fela Kuti’s band, Africa 70. The afrobeat orchestra are celebrating their twentieth year as a band on Daptone Records at London’s Jazz Cafe. Although well versed in their original songs, which blend all...
19/04/2019 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Antibalas The Jazz Cafe, London
![Album Review: Antibalas – Where The Gods Are In Peace [Daptone Records; September 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/antibalas-335x335.jpg)
Among tall skyscrapers, basketball courts, and yellow cabs rushing through the streets of the Big Apple, there is a twelve-piece band that holds high the banner of afrobeat well outside the borders of West Africa. They are Antibalas (Spanish for bulletproof); the horn-driven, afrobeat supergroup from Brooklyn, NY, founded by...