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- Summary: The son of Afobeat legend Fela Kuti releases his latest album which features more piano and trumpet.
- Record Label: Downtown
- Genre(s): World
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MojoFinger-pointing music has rarely been as much fun. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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Kuti studied piano and revisited the trumpet, his original instrument, resulting in a more textured and jazz-influenced approach this time out.
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He's come into his own carrying on the tradition of Afro-beat, but putting his own beautiful signature on it as its original heir.
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The album lacks the gut-punch intensity of brother Seun Kuti's recent debut, and the lyrics occasionally border on the trite, but Femi certainly lives up to the family name.
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UncutThis is different (from his last studio album) again, the rhythms of Afrobeat now cleved to an ambitious jazziness. [Dec 2008, p.100]
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Q MagazineLike his dad, he's more of a declaimer than a singer, but that's still plenty good enough to get his politicised sloganeering across. [Dec 2008, p.130]
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Femi's new album suffers in comparison to Seun's – while the tracks are fairly enjoyable, Femi's lyrics are the usual worthy but clunking stuff.
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