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The Kuti family navigates carefully with the rivalry of the brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, it is tempting to wonder if part of what tried Femi Kuti to break his creative silence after six years (apart from a collaborative album with his son done) is the warm reception given last year to More heavier (puts the head without crown)by his young half Brother Seun. However, it was invited, Voyage through life is an impressive stock that reworked and improves the past blows while waiting for impatiently.
The highlight of the album is “Chop and Run”, which begins like a synopsis of the “unknown soldier” of his father Fela, on a violent raid of the army on the enclosure of Kuti. “I can continue indefinitely,” he sings, before summarizing the recent political scandals of the country: “The money of the North Forum 2018 … Finance Officer told Kano the Gorilla government swallowing more than 6 million nairas … His voice rises with disbelief. “Animals do not join corruption …!”
The next song, “After 24 Years”, a long -standing fans in the sanctuary, the family nightclub in Lagos (with its newly updated meetings and words), condemns civilian politicians of the new century. “They failed to repair our refineries / They pretend to be their rivalries / They sit together Dey take advantage of / while the country they destroy.” Drippy and undersenged in 2018 A world a world“Corruption na vol” rupture here, with a tiny keyboard line and thunderous drums. “Shotan” is also super-alienated, with guttural voices, grungy guitars and streams falling on each other, his emergency referring to the fact that his target, Olusegun Obasanjo, left the presidency in 2007.
When Kuti turns his attention inward, as on “work on myself”, feelings become more generic. That said, even if the exhortations of the title track (“don't hang on to too tight material things … Keep all your loved ones by your side”) are expired, they are fixed to some of the most glorious Afrobeat of his entire career.
★★★★ ☆
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