Fela Kuti’s youngest son updates his father’s firebrand Afrobeat in A Long Way to the Beginning (Because). This new album from Seun Kuti and Egypt80 has a slew of guests – including some of Fela’s band members – but the style is Seun’s own.
Something for free: World Routes is a programme on BBC Radio 3 that has become a byword for inquisitive and inventive programming. The BBC has recently put over 10 years’ worth of World Routes archives online: dip into the music of Malagasy spirit houses, bone up on Haitian rap music or Baul songs recorded inside a Kolkata brothel. nin.tl/1ezLzGQ
