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Day by Day | 
 enlarge | Artist: Femi Kuti
Label: Downtown
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1757
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 70054
UPC: 878037005424
EAN: 0878037005424
ASIN: B001IF25W2
Release Date: November 18, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Oyimbo | | • | Eh Oh | | • | Day by Day | | • | Demo Crazy | | • | Do You Know | | • | You Better Ask Yourself | | • | One Two | | • | Tell Me | | • | They Will Run | | • | Tension Grip Africa | | • | Dem Funny | | • | Lets Make History |
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Album Description
The world is full of celebrity offspring, yet it is almost impossible to think of one who lives up to expectations to the same degree as Femi Kuti, son of Fela, the originator of Afrobeat and former Public Enemy No1 in Nigeria. His latest studio set, Day By Day, has been a long time coming. It is seven years since Fight To Win, four since the live Africa Shrine. He is also father to 7 children! This sabbatical also saw him learning a lot more about being a musician. Femi has learnt to play piano properly and gone back to the trumpet, his first instrument, which he gave up in favour of the sax. The benefits are immediately apparent on Day By Day. You can tell that the long lay off has inspired Femi. He is upbeat, enthusiastic and raring to go again.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Femi's most distinctive and jazzy. December 22, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's seven years since Femi's last studio album. He has been busy touring and running his "Shrine" nightclub in Lagos, where his band plays weekly when he is in town.
"Day By Day" is Femi Kuti's first album proper since Fight to Win in 2001
Femi, now 46, is one of Africa's most respected musicians.
There are few musicians who have followed so decisively in their father's footsteps as Femi. The pioneer of Afrobeat, the superfunky amalgam of Black Power politics, jazz and traditional rhythm, Nigerian Fela Kuti died a decade ago but Femi, heir to one of the world's most explosive musical legacies, has kept the powerful big-band sound alive and vehemently kicking with honking horns and thundering polyrhythms.
The tradition of thrilling Afrobeat, developed by Fela, kept alive by Femi, with its hypnotic pulsing rhythms punctuated by bursts of brass has always been influenced by US music, from jazz and soul through to funk.
Femi's music often closely recalls his influences, here specifically jazz and soul of the committed Curtis Mayfield variety.
He began his career with a tighter, more high-energy variant on his father's classic sound, but "Day by Day" is rather laid-back and melodic.
While the horn refrains have the essential dark-toned Afrobeat feel, the rhythmic base has a deeper, mellower swing, Femi's light yet throaty voice showing the influence of the churchier side of American soul.
The nursery rhyme homilies of the title track show him moving away from Fela's musical territory, though the steaming call-and-response interplay of "Demo Crazy" shows he can turn up the Afrobeat heat. His band Positive Force sound better than ever before.
Femi gives this album a jazzier sound and plays trumpet rather than his usual saxophone.
The production here smoothes off some of the harder edges. Songs like "Demo Crazy" are stronger for sounding as if they were recorded live.
With his latest offering, Femi has begun to develop his own form of afrobeat, mixing light, sturdy melodies with funk and jazz,Femi has gone further in finding his own voice and breaking the stranglehold of the past.
"Do You Know", "Tesion Grip Africa", "Oyimbo", "Demo Crazy", and "Tell Me" are among the highlights.
 Great Album December 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Its hard to say this is Femi Kuti's best album since all his albums have something special to offer. This album is an affirmation of Femi's uniqueness and a testimony to his muscial versatility. My best picks are "Dem Funny', 'You better ask yourself', 'Tell Me', and 'They Will Run'. This album expresses the synergies between Jazz, Funk and Afrobeat and by extension, a collage of different musical styles. Other tracks include studio versions of previously released songs like 'Eh Oh', '1,2,3' and 'Oyinbo'.
Femi's music in continuing in his fathers tradition,speaks to the social ills in Africa. This is without doubt a very commendable work of Afrobeat and a must own Album in the music library of the jazz, funk, afrobeat aficionado.
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