Water No Get Enemy

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Water No Get Enemy takes its title from a Yoruba proverb.

Water has no enemy.

In other words, water is a universal and essential element.

I didn't quite have the attention span for the longer stuff.

I would play these albums occasionally through college, but I think I didn't fully understand what I was hearing until I lived in Mozambique.

I was there to do curriculum development work in a country that had gained independence from Portugal in 1975, the same year that Fela was releasing Water No Get Enemy in Lagos.

Mozambique's independence, like Nigeria's 15 years earlier, had been followed by civil war.

But I mean, you know, I'll let you be the judge of that.

This is Captain Yossarian with his rework of Fela Kuti's Water Get No Enemy in Dub.

Thank you.

And that was Captain Yossarian with his reworking of Velocuti's Water Get No Enemy.

And I'm going to move swiftly on to something else that I picked up the other day.

It's the first EP from a gentleman that online is known as Disco Tech Credits.