Femi Kuti & The Positive Force (NGA)
If you happen to be an offspring of a praised musician, but still want to have a career of your own in music and wish to be remembered as something more than just an offspring – then you should perhaps ask for advice from Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, or Femi Kuti as he's more intimately known. Despite his status as one of the leading lights of today's Afrobeat, Femi Kuti probably knows what it feels like when your work is forever compared to that of your father. Which is, sort of, appropriate, Fela Kuti's name being almost synonymous with the entire genre of Afrobeat.
While undeniably treading in his father's footsteps, Femi Kuti does it extremely elegantly, without ever compromising any of his integrity as an artist and an individual. His trails are entirely his own, personalized, rhythmic, powerful and easy-going.
Femi's all-Nigerian Afrobeat is served live with a seasoning of jazz, cutting funk and heavy political message, and played with such intensity that we can promise these to be the sweatiest sounds of summer that turn the Rentolava ground into one ecstatic rhythm orgy.
