Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Stand Well Well (Audio)

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 take inspiration from Aldous Huxley's ‘Brave New World’ novel for the new scorching afrobeat single ‘Stand Well Well’, out now on all digital platforms.

Grammy-nominated Nigerian musician Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 unleash the new single ‘Stand Well Well’, which is now available worldwide on all digital platforms. Following the highly acclaimed singles ‘Dey’ feat. Damian Marley and ‘T.O.P.’, ‘Stand Well Well’ is the third extract from Seun Kuti & Egypt 80’s upcoming album ‘Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)’ that will hit the streets on October 4th via Milan-based label Record Kicks.

The new single ‘Stand Well Well’, a scorching afrobeat number, is inspired by ‘Brave New World’ the 1932 dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, set in a futuristic World State where citizens are environmentally arranged into a social hierarchy which is challenged by the story's protagonist.

“With ‘Stand Well Well’ I just wanted to throw a jab at what society looks like to me”, Seun Kuti explains. “Everything in the world today looks the same. Everybody just likes the same stuff, does the same things. The world is kind of reminding me of Aldous Huxley's ‘Brave New World’. A lot of people talk about George Orwell's ‘1984’ as predicting our times, but I think he wasn't as accurate or he was far from accurate. What was accurate was ‘Brave New World’ because I see it every day in my life”.

Seun Kuti is the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun has spent most of his life preserving and extending his father's political and musical legacy as the leader of his father's former band Egypt 80. As a developing saxophonist and percussionist, he entered the formal ranks of the band before he was 12. In 1997, when Fela passed, in fulfilment of his father's wishes, Seun assumed the mantle as head of Egypt 80 and he has run it ever since. During his career, Seun Kuti released 4 albums with Egypt 80: ‘Many Things’ (2008), ‘From Africa with Fury: Rise for Knitting Factory Records’ (2011), coproduced by Brian Eno and John Reynolds, ‘A Long Way Beginning’ (2014) and the Grammy nominated ‘Black Times’ (2018) that included a feature from Carlos Santana. They also released numerous EPs. Seun has played for enthusiastically receptive audiences globally and collaborated with many great artists. In 2022, he joined forces with Roots frontman and MC extraordinaire Black Thought in the EP ‘African Dreams’. In 2023, Seun collaborated on Janelle Monae's ‘The Age of Pleasure’ (Grammy nominee for Album Of The Year) with the two singles 'Float' and 'Knows Better', teamed up with Talib Kweli and MadLib for their album ‘Liberation 2’ on the song ‘Nat Turner’ featuring Cassper Nyovest and released a new version of the single ‘Bad Man Lighter’ with Black Thought, featuring Vic Mensa.