AFROBEAT FAMILY

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• LE PREMIER RASTA

  15 April 2011, by Mabinuori Idowu (aka ID)

  A NE PAS MANQUER LE 27 AVRIL 2011... 10 ans après son livre LE PREMIER RASTA, la journaliste Hélène Lee repart pour la Jamaïque, caméra à l’épaule, sur les traces de Leonard Percival Howell, initiateur et catalyseur du Mouvement Rastafari, conSidéré par certains comme son fondateur. Entre images d’archives et rencontres avec ceux qui l’ont cotoyés et croisés, Hélène Lee réalise un film documentaire fort, passionnant et émouvant sur la vie et la personnalité passionnantes du PREMIER RASTA. Bien loin des (...)

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• HOMAGE : Segun DAMISA 2010

  12 December 2010, by Mabinuori Idowu (aka ID)

  Chez Alriq, a suburban bar/café reputed for its open air live music and restaurant in Bordeaux France was home to another week-end of Afrobeat music the 16 & 17 July 2010 in homage to Segun Damisa (1964-2006). Segun former leader of the defunct afrobeat group Alkebu-lan based in Abuja (Nigeria) and founder of the Afrobeat Crusaders based in Bordeaux (France) was taken away from his beloved Afrobeat Family by a cancer on July 17th, 2006 in France. To keep his memory alive, his friends (...)

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• THE RETURN OF THE KING

  4 August 2010, by Mabinuori Idowu (aka ID)

  Femi Anikulapo-Kuti can aptly be described in Yoruba language as ‘Omo d’agba tan’ – which literally means: ‘a child has come of age’ or ‘a child has attained adulthood’. Considering that at almost 49 years of age (born 16th June 1962), he can no longer be considered as a child. However, the ‘lager-than-life’ image of his legendary father Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, places him in the minds of Afrobeat die-hards as a child, from whom great expectations are awaited. Siblings of great achievers all over the (...)

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• TIKEN JAH FAKOLY .

  3 August 2010, by Mabinuori Idowu (aka ID)

  Apart from Femi and his group, Positive Force, who through their musical exploits can be regarded as inheritors of the Fela phenomenon, it is most encouraging today to hear groups like Tiken Jah Fakoly identifying with the Fela struggle and legacy. With the strong message from his first major - label album titled: “FRANCEAFRIQUE”, he can be regarded like Fela as an artist engaged. An album critical of, to quote him: “…a capitalist society where morality is no more capital.” Rendered in a mix (...)

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• SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80

  2 August 2010, by Mabinuori Idowu (aka ID)

  Seun Anikulapo Kuti is claimed particularly among those who never saw the King, to possess the grace, the energy and the fury of Fela. Performing with the Egypt 80, the legendary group of Fela, Seun’s showmanship has been described in the media as “relive the most original embodiment of Afro beat”. The gesture, the phrasing, Seun explodes on stage, prompting me to ask after his show: ID: Another thing I would like to talk about is I see you trying to play like Fela on stage, when are we (...)

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