Fela Kuti & the Afrika 70
Coffin for Head of State
Kalakuta, 1981
There's half a dozen Fela's I prefer over Coffin but this is an original African pressing. Factor in the story behind the song and the (literal) African soil embedded in the album cover, and then factor out my own romanticization of the whole thing and it's hard to deny what an intense artifact this is.
Here's an inner gatefold pic.
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