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Femi Kuti
- Record Label: Knitting Factory Records
- Release Date: Jun 25, 2013
- Summary: Produced by Sodi Marciszewer, the album with influences from Afrobeat, Caribbean, and Latin music from the oldest son of Fela was recorded in Paris.
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- Record Label: Knitting Factory Records
- Genre(s): International, West African, African Traditions, Afro-beat, Nigerian
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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MojoJul 10, 2013Three years ago, Africa For Africa felt like a career highlight: this isn't far behind. [Aug 2013, p.96]
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Jun 24, 2013In the past, Femi has sounded just as vital and his playing just as powerful, but he's never done it in such radiant tones.
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Jun 24, 2013He acknowledges and celebrates musical difference, allows for those tensions to reveal themselves inside his music, and creates a dialogue that uses rhythm and harmony as unifying signifiers in his political language. Brilliant.
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Jul 2, 2013This new record is a return to his trademark jazz-and-funk Afro-beat grooves but is solid throughout if you appreciate energetic big-band arrangements, a theatrical backup chorus, and Femi out front wailing from the heart and giving hope to the voiceless.
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Aug 12, 2013No Place for My Dream is an aggressively persuasive reminder that, until things start going their way, the people of Africa are going to make a hell of a lot of racket.
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Jun 24, 2013He's still worth checking out, though more for the musical experiment than the admirable, though now predictable, message, which veers towards easy sloganeering at times.
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MagnetJul 17, 2013While Femi's flame doesn't burn quite as strong as his dad's, the Kuti family still holds the belt as reigning champs of Afrobeat. [No. 100, p.55]