The Afrofunk Music Forum

January 6th Notice : Just informed that this show has been postponed! Please check back for the revised date!

By Robert Fox

Femi Kuti has a new CD out, Day By Day, and it's his strongest effort to date. I really like this recording, which features more confident songwriting than ever before, and a very controlled groove to the music. Some of Femi's earlier recordings had an almost frantic energy. The new material still packs a punch--particularly the richly mixed horns--but the tracks swing and move with counter-rhythms and unexpected hooks. Definitely check it out.

And if you're in the Washington, DC area, you're in luck--Femi will be in town on Friday, January 9th with his band Positive Force. He's returning to the 9:30 Club, a great place to hear live music. If you don't have tickets already, you better get them now: last year's Femi show at the 9:30 was not only sold out, there was a line of more than 100 people outside trying in vain to buy tickets. I know--I was one of them!