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KUTIMAN

Wachaga SLYAL MUSLC

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IT might seem natural, given his catalogue – and in particular the African nature of this, his fourth album – to assume Israel’s Kutiman took his name in deference to Fela Kuti, one of his most obvious influences. Instead, the 38-year-old kibbutz-dwelling multi-instrumentalist and video artist was merely adapting his birth name, Ophir Kutiel. Kutiman, after all, would never limit himself so

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