This latter-day Fela album is one of his glossiest and best-sounding releases. The music, performed by his final band, Egypt 80 (as opposed to Africa 70, the Tony Allen-driven group that recorded most of his classic tracks) and produced by Wally Badarou, has an almost big-band power, featuring five trumpets, five saxophonists (alto, tenor and baritone), three guitars, bass, organ, drums, and four percussionists, plus a half dozen vocalists. The album credits also list the names of the six dancers who would join Egypt 80 onstage. It’s a sprawling disc, too; where many of his 1970s songs were in the 12- to 15-minute range, the hard-driving “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense,” a condemnation of Western colonialist education, runs nearly 26 minutes, and the flip side, “Look and Laugh,” which recalls Fela’s history of abuse at the hands of the Nigerian government, is almost 31 minutes long. Fela’s saxophone solos verge on free jazz at times, as the band throbs and pulses around him.