Who Is This America? (Reissue)

Formed in 1998, the Brooklyn-based music collective Antibalas draws on musical lineages steeped in jazz, funk, Afro-Caribbean, and West African music, and is widely recognized for its mastery of and innovation in the afrobeat musical form created in the early 1970s by Nigerian composer/activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Ropeadope is proud to release this special edition of the Antibalas classic Who Is This America? The questions and powerful social statements on the record are as relevant today as they were in 2004. "Big Man" is a powerful musical essay on consumerism and the system of continued oppression that it supports, while the title track is even more poignant as our nation continues the struggle for our collective identity in the face of a changing world. The CD features a bonus track, "Money Talks," produced by the legendary Scott Harding.