Kokolo - 100 Fevers / Ciento Fiebres LP

Kokolo Afrobeat Orchesta is back with their 5th album! Limited pressing of only 250 copies, pressed on black and limited edition red vinyl, full color insert included. After the departure into James Brown afro-Latin-funk territory for Heavy Hustling, the Latin soul adventures of the Boogaloo Destroyers, side projects like the tropical psychedelia concept album Go South/Vaya Pa’l Sur by Los Terrificos with Jake Fader and several solo recordings under his own name that had a digital dance culture feel to them, Ray Lugo is back with the full band Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra in what is being hailed as a “return to form” featuring the classic Fela-influenced yet highly original sound forged on earlier records like Love International (2007) and More Consideration (2004). Though not exactly a reunion album—the band haven’t stopped recording and touring together in one form another for the past 18 years—Lugo contends 100 Fevers is the best representation of what Kokolo has always been, an “eclec