{"id":12255,"date":"2024-10-15T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senmedias.com\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:27:23","slug":"nouvel-album-lafrobeat-brut-et-sophistique-de-seun-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senmedias.com\/?p=12255","title":{"rendered":"Nouvel album : L\u2019afrobeat brut et sophistiqu\u00e9 de Seun Kuti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Porte-drapeau de l\u2019afrobeat originel depuis plus de quinze ans sur les sc\u00e8nes internationales, le chanteur et musicien nig\u00e9rian Seun Kuti cultive avec soin et inventivit\u00e9 l\u2019h\u00e9ritage musical familial sur son cinqui\u00e8me album intitul\u00e9 Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Il aura fallu attendre 2024 pour que les familles embl\u00e9matiques de l\u2019afrobeat nig\u00e9rian et du reggae jama\u00efcain, deux genres musicaux contestataires, sinon r\u00e9volutionnaires, issus des pays du Sud, soient r\u00e9unies sur une m\u00eame chanson\u00a0: si Damian Marley avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9alis\u00e9 quelques featurings avec les stars de la\u00a0naija music\u00a0que sont Wizkid ou Burna Boy (et Ziggy Marley avec Yemi Alade), jamais aucun des nombreux enfants du roi du reggae ne s\u2019\u00e9tait associ\u00e9 \u00e0 un descendant du \u00abBlack President\u00bb. En conviant Damian Marley sur son morceau\u00a0Dey,\u00a0Seun Kuti\u00a0met fin \u00e0 cette situation relevant presque de l\u2019illogisme musical, conscient aussi de la port\u00e9e symbolique d\u2019un tel acte\u00a0:\u00a0\u00abpour moi, c\u2019est un moment sp\u00e9cial, car je crois que c\u2019est la premi\u00e8re fois que les Kuti et les Marley collaborent sur un projet musical et enregistrent ensemble\u00bb, relevait le quadrag\u00e9naire nig\u00e9rian, tout heureux d\u2019annoncer une telle nouvelle sur les r\u00e9seaux en juin dernier. \u00abIl ne s\u2019interdit rien\u00bb, rel\u00e8ve le r\u00e9alisateur fran\u00e7ais Sodi Marciszewer, qui travaillait pour la premi\u00e8re fois avec Seun Kuti, mais conna\u00eet particuli\u00e8rement bien l\u2019\u0153uvre familiale pour avoir particip\u00e9 \u00e0 de nombreux albums de\u00a0Fela,\u00a0puis de son fils a\u00een\u00e9\u00a0Femi, ainsi que le fils de ce dernier,\u00a0Made. S\u2019ils ont tous en commun d\u2019\u00eatre\u00a0\u00abd\u2019excellents musiciens, avec une ma\u00eetrise du saxophone\u00bb,\u00a0qui jouent \u00e9galement d\u2019autres instruments,\u00a0\u00abils n\u2019aiment pas refaire\u00bb, note l\u2019homme de studio qui sait l\u2019importance, avec eux, des premi\u00e8res prises\u00a0:\u00a0\u00abIls aiment bien l\u00e2cher une performance et il faudrait se d\u00e9brouiller avec\u00a0!\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>La m\u00e9thode Kuti<\/strong><br \/>\nPour l\u2019album\u00a0Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), supervis\u00e9 par Lenny Kravitz dans le r\u00f4le du producteur venu donner des conseils plus techniques que musicaux, Sodi a appliqu\u00e9\u00a0\u00abla m\u00e9thode Kuti\u00bb, qu\u2019il d\u00e9finit comme\u00a0\u00abune recherche de la transe\u00bb, car\u00a0\u00abelle n\u2019est pas n\u00e9cessairement l\u00e0 d\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res mesures de l\u2019enregistrement\u00bb. Une fois pr\u00e9sente, encore faut-il savoir la faire durer et surtout la capturer, pour en restituer les \u00e9motions. Dans ce domaine, et m\u00eame s\u2019il refuse d\u2019utiliser le mot \u00abhabitude\u00bb car il faut\u00a0\u00abinventer la production qui va le mieux porter\u00bb chaque chanson, le Fran\u00e7ais poss\u00e8de une exp\u00e9rience des plus utiles pour\u00a0\u00abanticiper quelle va \u00eatre la meilleure mani\u00e8re d\u2019enregistrer\u00bb.<br \/>\nDiff\u00e9rent de l\u2019afrobeat de Femi qui en a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 une forme personnelle aux accents funk et soul, celui que pratique son cadet se rapproche nettement plus du style invent\u00e9 par leur p\u00e8re apr\u00e8s son retour au Nigeria en 1970 (avoir conserv\u00e9 le nom de son orchestre, Egypt 80, n\u2019en est-il pas un signe\u00a0?). Simple et brut, avec toutefois une esth\u00e9tique assez sophistiqu\u00e9e. Sur\u00a0Emi Aluta, l\u2019impression \u00e9ventuelle de copi\u00e9-coll\u00e9 dispara\u00eet au moment o\u00f9 la tr\u00e8s respect\u00e9e rappeuse zambienne Sampa The Great prend le micro. Et s\u2019il est difficile de ne pas voir dans\u00a0T.O.P.\u00a0une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au M.O.P (Movement of The People) de Fela, le chant et l\u2019interpr\u00e9tation vocale de Seun se d\u00e9marquent ici clairement du mod\u00e8le paternel. Dans son cas, comme d\u2019ailleurs dans celui de son invit\u00e9 Damian Marley, la probl\u00e9matique artistique s\u2019apparente \u00e0 une \u00e9quation\u00a0: assumer le poids de sa filiation, sans la subir. S\u2019en r\u00e9clamer et savoir s\u2019en \u00e9carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porte-drapeau de l\u2019afrobeat originel depuis plus de quinze ans sur les sc\u00e8nes internationales, le chanteur et musicien nig\u00e9rian Seun Kuti cultive avec soin et inventivit\u00e9 l\u2019h\u00e9ritage musical familial sur son cinqui\u00e8me album intitul\u00e9 Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head). Il aura fallu attendre 2024 pour que les familles embl\u00e9matiques de l\u2019afrobeat nig\u00e9rian et du reggae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"buzzeditor_post_format":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-eco-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nouvel album : L\u2019afrobeat brut et sophistiqu\u00e9 de Seun Kuti - Senmedias<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/senmedias.com\/?p=12255\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nouvel album : L\u2019afrobeat brut et sophistiqu\u00e9 de Seun Kuti - Senmedias\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Porte-drapeau de l\u2019afrobeat originel depuis plus de quinze ans sur les sc\u00e8nes internationales, le chanteur et musicien nig\u00e9rian Seun Kuti cultive avec soin et inventivit\u00e9 l\u2019h\u00e9ritage musical familial sur son cinqui\u00e8me album intitul\u00e9 Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head). 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