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 Featured Artist-April 2008
Yoruba Oduduwa Radio takes pride in announcing this new feature of our
website, the Artist of the Month. Please stay tuned to our newsletter for
interviews, commentaries and information on YORadio’s selected Artist of the
month.
Meet Keiji Hamilton!!! You read this dynamic performer’s interview with
Princess Adinasse in April by going to this
link. YORadio’s main audio channel will feature music by this talented
artist and pastor beginning in April, 2008!
Exousia Entertainment Press Release (Online CD Release)
‘Keji’, by Keji Hamilton & The Exousia Band.
Exousia Entertainment is pleased to announce the digital release of the
self-titled album ‘Keji’, by Keji Hamilton & The Exousia Band.
Remember Keji Hamilton, the talented multi-instrumentalist who sharpened his
musical teeth with the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, as a guitarist and later as
a pianist?
After a thirteen-year sojourn from the public musical eye, Keji Hamilton has
re-emerged, imposingly, with his new album.
The album is a production of Exousia Entertainment, the management stable of
Keji Hamilton and the thirteen-man Exousia Band.
The ‘Keji’ album was recorded, after several months of rehearsals, at an
analog Studio in Lagos, Nigeria.
‘Keji’ which contains 46 minutes of traditional Afrobeat music (a fusion of
Jazz horns/keyboards and African rhythmic percussions) is an effective
combination of slow tempo groove and fast-paced upbeat tracks. The songs
capture a variety of moods and themes; they range from the political through
social commentary to the inspirational. The pulsating rhythm of ‘Designers’
is guaranteed to drive you to the dance floor, while the heavy groove of
‘Innocent Blood’ would see you nodding and tapping your feet impulsively.
Keji Hamilton, who is a leading exponent of the Afrobeat genre of music,
with an acclaimed world-class compositional prowess, has two and a half
decades of experience as a musician. He is also a composer/arranger of the
Jazz and Reggae genres of music.
One fan said, “Keji's street-beats style is infectious and uncontrollable.
His experiences are an open wound from which pours real love and deep
soul-wrenching music.” Cobhams Asuquo, a multiple award winning songwriter
and producer also comments on Keji’s music:
“I have always seen Afrobeat as a genre of music that needs to be explored
and exploited. It so happens that a lot of people who have delved into this
genre of music have not, to the best of its capacity, taken the full and
total advantage of it. I think Keji Hamilton has been able to capture
Afrobeat with the same exactitude, even as Fela did.”
For all lovers of Afrobeat music worldwide, Keji Hamilton’s virtuoso
performance at ‘The Return of Keji’ concert and the release of his new album
‘Keji’, have left no one in doubt that ‘Roots’ Afrobeat as established by
Fela Anikulapo Kuti is back ………and back with a big bang!
‘Keji’ is distributed online by WM Recordings.
The album will be available in all the major download stores, in January
2008.
For more information, contact:
charles@exousiaentertainment.com (+ 44 788.658.8786)
Also see:
www.exousiaentertainment.com
www.myspace.com/kejihamiltonRecent Media Coverage of
Keji Hamilton
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