Invited by RadioWroclove, Kutiman will visit Poland. He will come especially for us to Wroclaw from Tel Aviv. Meet Kutiman in EpiCentre, June 19 at 9pm.

Ophir Kutiel was born (1982) in Jerusalem and grew up in Zichron Yaacov. He studied piano since the age of six, and then drums and guitar at age 14. When Kutiel was 18, he moved to Tel Aviv to study Jazz at Rimon Music College.

While working at a local convenience store in Tel Aviv, Kutiel tuned into a college radio station that was playing music that was much different than the classical jazz he had been used to playing. Soon after, Sabbo, another Israeli artist and current music partner, introduced him to afrobeat and funk, including the sounds of James Brown and Fela Kuti. His obsession with Fela Kuti and the fact that his last name was similar led him to create the stage-name of Kutiman. He traveled to Jamaica to research reggae and afrobeat and work with Stephen and Damien Marley.

In 2009 Kutiman released ThruYOU, an online music video project mixed from samples of YouTube videos. After disclosing his work to just twenty friends, Kutiman’s project spread virally across the web, racking up more than one million views in less than a week. [9] After viewing ThruYOU, open source advocate Lawrence Lessig praised the project as a pioneer of a new, less regulated form of media, saying “If you come to the Net armed with the idea that the old system of copyright is going to work just fine here, this more than anything is going to get you to recognize: you need some new ideas.”

The differences between Wrocław and Tel Aviv. By Kutiman

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Kutiman in Epicentre. June 19. Part 1

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Kutiman in Epicentre. June 19. Part 2

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Bio from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman

Photo credit to http://www.myspace.com/kutiman

More infos:
http://www.przekroj.pl/ludzie_sylwetki_artykul,4575.html
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1886626,00.html
http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/news.php/6130/Kutiman-rzadzi-na-YouTube