Femi Anikulapo-Kuti is son and heir to the Afro-Beat hero, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. If you don't know who that is, Femi Kuti: Live at the Shrine should give you some idea. Fela is a legend in Nigeria. He had the funk of James Brown with the charisma and political style of Bob Marley, but angrier. His son carries on the family business. He lives in a compound/auditorium called the Shrine and performs blazingly funky political music with a huge band and several dancers. This documentary is about half interviews and half music. The interviews are interesting, but I would have liked more music.
We watched it on Watch Instantly, because one of our DVDs was scratched (which seems to happen a lot). The sound was good, picture fair. Which was fine, because we cared mostly about the music.
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I almost went to see Fela, when he performed in Berkeley back in the early-1980s. But the, ouch, $30 ticket price discouraged me.
Didn't he get refused entry or something? Maybe I'm thinking of his 90's tour. Anyway, we never saw him either.
Amazing fact: He called his band Egypt 70, because it had 70 members.
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