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Femi Kuti
Afro-beat / Roots Music / Other



Lagos
Nigeria

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Member Since12/21/2006
Band Websiteshrinetv.com
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DAY BY DAY
4 years after the DVD Live@Shrine, Femi Kuti returns with a generous, powerful and timeless new album, continuing to explore and push back the frontiers of Afrobeat.
13 titles that grab your belly, your feet, your heart and your head. From the ghettos of Lagos to the palaces of corrupt politicians, Day by Day takes us through the winding roads of African paradox. Why is such a rich continent inhabited by the world’s poorest people?….


Copying note for note his Father’s music has never been Femi’s goal. If he accompanied Fela’s musicians during his youth, he decided as early as 1986 to free himself up and create his own band. Whilst always respecting his musical heritage, Femi has refined over more than twenty years, an afrobeat with soul-jazz nuances that is entirely his own.
The route taken has always been original, from his signing with Motown in the early 90’s until his ground-breaking album in 2001 “Fight To Win”, for example, when he joined with rappers Mos Def and Common and funkmaster James Poyser, amongst other American luminaries. These rich experiences only served to re-enforce his ultimate conviction; his music has never been as intense as when brewed in a Nigerian cauldron and matured in the hot-house atmosphere of the Shrine - his Lagos nightclub.

Serving as an African laboratory the Shrine is an open house for the dispossessed, a meeting point for popular dissenters whilst also being a centre for celebrating the convergence of cutting-edge African music and dance.
In brief the Shrine is a place that disturbs the country’s politicians and authorities. The State’s militia make regular punitive expeditions carrying knives and baseball bats. Last Spring they came in the middle of the night, broke their way in and injuring several people without any apparent reason. Nigerian media, in thrall to a gangrenous corrupt government continue to ignore these attacks. Only a few lines in the international press bear witness that these gratuitous and violent roustings that are never explained take place. Could it be because Femi had plastered posters all over the town reclaiming the return of electricity in his miserable neighbourhood and inciting his neighbours to revolt against the ever-deteriorating conditions that are prevalent in their increasingly precarious lives.
Or is it simply because of the latest haranguing refrain of songs like “Tell Me” which is found on this album. 1n any event these persecutions recall and confirm an unshakeable fact; Afrobeat emanating from the Kuti family is above all else a music of combat.
Immortalised in Femi’s “live” DVD in 2004 (“Live At The Shrine” MK2/Uwe) he hoped to expose in a raw and savage fashion this reality. Three years later this album launches another challenge, to re-create in the studio the magic and burning energy of a Femi Kuti concert. Three tracks from the “live” have been re-interpreted for the occasion. Telling it like it is; This is perhaps the finest work amongst Femi’s discography. These twelve tracks offer a more focussed Afrobeat than ever before, recorded with his Producer, Sodi, this album benefits from a complicity that has grown ever stronger over the past twelve years. “Day by Day” is Nigeria in all of its states: We find elaborate instrumental patterns, both in their texture and in their structure (“Demo Crazy”) refrains as soulful as the best old hits Curtis Mayfield hits (“Eh Oh”) and hot numbers to set light to any dancefloor. His group, Positive Force, built the foundations in Lagos and, during timely visits during sessions in Paris, other artists brought their building blocks to the structure. Keziah Jones made his guitar swing on “Tell Me” and “Dem Funny”.Femi’s young son, Madé, also joined the adventure, participating in all the tracks on this delicious album – to be released on the 27th October. ..




InfluencesAFROBEAT AFROBEAT AFROBEAT
Sounds LikeSuya, Eba & Pepper Soup



FEMI KUTI REMIX CONTEST
Here is the playlist of the remix contest winners. the 1st winning remix is DEDOu's followed by eight other remixes that you can listen to in the player below!


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Record LabelPias - Wrasse - Downtown Mercer Street
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 11 2009 6:00P
Ottawa Blues Festival Ottawa, Ontario
Jul 13 2009 8:00P
Durham Brass Festival Durham
Jul 15 2009 8:00P
Theatro Braxon Athens
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
Glade Festival Winchester
Jul 18 2009 8:00P
Slottssfjell Tonsberg
Jul 19 2009 8:00P
Ilosaarirock Joensuu
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
Galway Arts Festival Galway
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
Fiestas Grandes Gijon
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Festival a Punta Pala Huelva
Jul 29 2009 8:00P
Festival à la bellevilloise Paris, Ile-de-France
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
Festival Ecaussysteme Gignac
Aug 2 2009 8:00P
Standon Calling Herts
Aug 4 2009 8:00P
Festival Fiest’A Sete Sete
Aug 5 2009 8:00P
Festival Porto Latino Bastia, Corsica
Aug 7 2009 8:00P
Festival Ard’Afrique aux Vans Ardeche
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
Festival Excenevex Haute Savoie Excenevex

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   About Femi Kuti



'DAY BY DAY' - album teaser


"SHRINE TV" - episode 1


"SHRINE TV" - episode 2


Red Hot + Riot recording session "Water No Get Enemy"

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Femi Kuti has 15949 friends.
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Femi Kuti's Friends Comments
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Jul 10 2009 9:12 PM

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Jul 9 2009 4:42 PM

Thanx for the add. love ur music
alkisti





Jul 9 2009 3:30 PM

CAN'T WAIT to see you in Athens!!
Max





Jul 9 2009 2:52 PM

Thanks for adding me !
Jamo-Lee





Jul 8 2009 10:00 PM


Just got done puttin up two new track, "Bass Face" & "What the Funk", come by and check them out and let me know what you think!!!
Jamakka





Jul 8 2009 6:33 PM

Peace and Light...
;-D
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Theo Frank





Jul 8 2009 6:21 PM












..Be comforted, dear friends. your brother Micheal is home now.
Gbagbo aka Rootz





Jul 8 2009 2:19 AM

Simbi
PEACE
Jamien King Universal Brightness





Jul 7 2009 11:08 PM

legend
Henri ONSAMUZ





Jul 7 2009 10:14 PM

Thanks for the add. Cheers for the beat :-))
Native American Flute music by Jay Red Eagle





Jul 6 2009 11:29 PM

Have a great weekend!

Blessings...
mldk





Jul 6 2009 7:55 PM

merci pour l'ajout
 

The L.A.C.





Jul 6 2009 11:39 AM

Master Femi!! When are you coming to London?... We have finished 2 new tracks, please come listen and tell us what you think! And then come to London!!
THE UMANO ORCHESTRA


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Jul 5 2009 7:14 PM

Hello Femi Kuti,

Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!

We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too.

We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.

Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.

We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.

What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!

Thom & Lorry Gambino
New York, New York
MAYAMBI





Jul 4 2009 4:51 PM

Merci !!!! Very good show à La Tour prend l'air  en France


You represent!!!


Vibes from Paris



Mayambi ;)
Dexter Crockett





Jul 4 2009 3:51 AM

Howdy Femi Kuti,
Thanks for your friendship and the great music on your page.
Just uploaded my new song "My Future Showed Up Late". It's a toe tapper about southern style karma and us good ole boys. It's got my good buddy Ray MaGee on pedal steel cookin' up a storm.
Enjoy and let me know how you like it.
Thanks, Dexter
mexico68





Jul 3 2009 10:12 PM

FELA KUTI
Le rêve Africain





Jul 3 2009 10:04 PM

Hello !

We opened on our page the AFRO PEPITES SHOW competition. The 1st first competition researcher of Africans pepites. Fast come to discover what an AFRO PEPITE on our site...

From 1st till 15 July, it’s a competition photo: Amateurs or professionals come numerous to post us your most beautiful photo of Africa. She can reveal the African beauty, of good moments shared in Africa, her art … That can be one of your photos or the photo of Africa which speaks to you most!

Cultural solidarity with Africa: make the African culture shine …

Spend the information, Competition opened to the whole world !

Here are the photos of our participants :
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Jul 3 2009 3:15 PM

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Jul 2 2009 2:06 PM

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Jul 2 2009 5:17 AM

Monsieur c'est un grand honneur pour moi,Vous avez accepté mon invitation.
Vous avez le meilleur groupe d'Afrobeat de tous les temps et votre voix ...........
On ne peut pas la commenter.
Merci de m'avoir laissé rentrer dans votre myspace .
Musicalement Jean.
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