{"id":14146,"date":"2020-02-12T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14146"},"modified":"2021-10-10T03:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:11:03","slug":"seun-kuti-egypt-80-night-dreamer-direct-to-disc-sessions-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/seun-kuti-egypt-80-night-dreamer-direct-to-disc-sessions-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Seun Kuti &#038; Egypt 80 &#8211; Night Dreamer Direct To Disc Sessions &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seun Kuti and Egypt 80<\/strong> cut direct-to-disc session for <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> debut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seun Kuti<\/strong>, youngest son of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and leader of his father\u2019s <strong>Egypt 80<\/strong> band, entered the Artone Studio in Haarlem, Holland, earlier this year to cut a direct to disc session in a single take.<\/p>\n<p>The first to be released on the <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> label, the session brought some of the foremost afrobeat musicians in the world together, many of whom cut their teeth playing with Fela himself.<\/p>\n<p>Inheriting both his father\u2019s musicality and political activism, <strong>Seun<\/strong> was only fourteen when his father died, and has played with the band for over twenty years, first as a singer and then as a saxophonist in his father\u2019s mould.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> session, the band took a day to acclimatise themselves to the recording process, sound check levels, and perform a few test cuts, with <strong>Seun<\/strong> was the central figure throughout, orchestrating the band with the assurance of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Playing without the safety of multiple takes,<strong> Seun and Egypt 80<\/strong> cut all four tracks (two per side) in a single take without rehearsal on the second day, improvising with all the focus and relaxation of<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\"> a band in the midst of a world tour. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bcTruncateMore\">The recordings were cut to the studio\u2019s Neumann VMS70 lathe, capturing not just the urgency of the performance but the atmosphere of the session itself, with all its imperfections. A snapshot of a legendary outfit at the top of their game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Night Dreamer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Seun Kuti and Egypt 80<\/strong> cut direct-to-disc session for <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> debut.<\/p>\n<p>The first to be released on the <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> label, the session brought some of the foremost afrobeat musicians in the world together, many of whom cut their teeth playing with Fela himself.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>Night Dreamer<\/strong> session, the band took a day to acclimatise themselves to the recording process, sound check levels, and perform a few test cuts, with <strong>Seun<\/strong> was the central figure throughout, orchestrating the band with the assurance of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Playing without the safety of multiple takes,<strong> Seun and Egypt 80<\/strong> cut all four tracks (two per side) in a single take without rehearsal on the second day, improvising with all the focus and relaxation of<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\"> a band in the midst of a world tour. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"See the Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YhrYOoUou0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[3231,3230],"class_list":{"0":"post-14146","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-night-dreamer","7":"product_tag-seun-kuti","8":"product_shipping_class-lp","9":"pa_artist-egypt-80","10":"pa_artist-seun-kuti","11":"pa_genre-afro-beat","12":"pa_genre-afrosound","13":"pa_label-night-dreamer","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}