ALL ARTISTS// Femi Kuti
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Africa for Africa
After an absence of four years, Femi delivered a tour de force in 2008 with Day By Day. His new album Africa For Africa has a very similar direction, except for one crucial difference. Day By Day was made in Paris, while this one was recorded in Lagos, in the historic Decca studio where his father Fela recorded some of his classics and where Femi began his career. And you can feel the energetic tension of the Nigerian megacity in every beat of this record, which features some of Femi’s most powerful compositions, such as ‘Politics In Africa’ and the incendiary ‘Now I See’. Femi attacks the African political elite for having no legitimate right to power and for their abuses of the people (‘Nobody Beg’, ‘Bad Government’). There’s a constant sense of urgency here, even on the slower songs, which smoulder with heat (as on the title track). The Kuti flame burns bright.
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force live dates:
27 Nov 2010 - Concorde 2, Brighton
28 Nov 2010 - Barbican, London
29 Nov 2010 - Band On The Wall, Manchester
30 Nov 2010 - Club Stylus, Leeds University
01 Dec 2010 - HMV Picture House, Edinburgh
02 Dec 2010 - The Arches, Glasgow
Africa for Africa is out now on Wrasse
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// ALSO
- Day by Day
- Femi Kuti
- Pick A Dream
- Quantic and his Combo Barbaro album launch tour starts Friday 5 June at the ICA
- Joe Bataan & James Pants live at Cargo 11 June plus dates in Leeds and Birmingham
- Call for entrants: RFI Discoveries Award 2010
- Tony Allen, Afrobeat ace
- Style with sense, Bottletop
- Toumani Diabaté, Toumani Diabaté - My mission is to play
// ALL FEMI KUTI'S REVIEWS
Africa for Africa
28/10/2010
Day by Day
14/11/2008
Via Campesina
27/09/2006
// DISCOGRAPHY
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Day by day (Album)
Africa Shrine (Album)
Shoki Shoki (Album)
Via Campesina (Album)
Fight to Win (Album)// LINKS
RELATED ARTISTS
>> Seun Kuti
>> Asian Dub Foundation
>> Tinariwen
>> Gudrun Holck
>> Fela Anikulapo Kuti
REPORTS
// CONTACT
MK2 MUSIC (Label)
Tel : 01 44 67 30 09 Fax : 01 44 67 30 43
55 rue Traversière
PARIS FRA 75012
Send an email
Femi Kuti's Website
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