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Yannis Philippakis: Lagos Paris London featuring Tony Allen is out now 🍊 Making music with somebody, and then death happening, being in proximity to mortality, but having this record at the end of it, it’s been such an important experience for me. Understanding the power of meeting somebody and making something, those serendipitous encounters, meaningful ones where you make something are to be treasured and cherished, because, in many ways, that’s all that’s left at the end. For that experience to have been with Tony Allen - one of the greatest drummers of all time - makes this all the more bittersweet. He made his own rhythmic language which, above all, feels good in the body. It’s one thing to come up with a technical fingerprint that’s new. That’s hard in and of itself. But to do that and have it still feel good to different generations of musicians from different cultures all around the world? It captures your mind in its complexity but also in its spirit. There’s so much rhythmic information. But it never stops feeling good. And he had no father in that. He came up with it. That’s the magic of it. Long live Tony now & forever. Thankyou to all the collaborators in The Yaw & all of you for listening.

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Walk Through Fire. New song featuring Tony Allen out next week yannisandtheyaw.com 🔥

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happy birthday to the good the bad and the queen, released 22 january 2007

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What it's like to record with Tony Allen 🐙🥁🔥

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Yannis & The Yaw | Rain Can't Reach Us ft. Tony Allen

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Off Beat: Tony Allen: Afrobeat’s Impossible Drummer

Tony Allen, the man who created Afrobeat alongside Fela Kuti, is often described as one of the greatest drummers who ever lived, thanks to his incredible polyrhythms and huge innovations. This is his story.

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Tony Allen & Jeff Mills - Tomorrow Comes The Harvest / full album

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Today in Bopst Design/Promotion/Radio Programming: 5/3/2017

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Yannis commented on his first impression of Tony’s drumming:

“It’s like hearing a new language on a very familiar instrument. Tony made his own rhythmic language which, above all, feels good in the body. It’s one thing to come up with a technical fingerprint that’s new. That is hard in and of itself. But to do that and have it also still feel good to different generations of musicians from different cultures all around the world? It captures your mind in its complexity—and also in its difference from other styles of drumming. There’s so much rhythmic information. But it never stops feeling good. And he had no father in that. He came up with it. That’s the magic of it.”

As for the experience of working with Tony, Yannis noted:

“Making music with somebody, and then death happening, and being in proximity to mortality, but having this record at the end of it, it’s been an important experience for me. Understanding the power of meeting somebody and making something, those serendipitous encounters, meaningful ones where you make something are to be treasured and cherished, because, in many ways, that’s all that’s left at the end.’’

Photos by Kit Monteith via Spotify and Rough Trade

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LAGOS PARIS LONDON

Pre-order the new EP by Yannis & The Yaw featuring Tony Allen now. Out 30th August via Transgressive

New song “Walk Through Fire” out now 🔥 https://yannisandtheyaw.ffm.to/lagosparislondon

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“Cool Cats” mix of Robbers, Thugs & Muggers (O'Galajani) by Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela from the special edition of the album Rejoice

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Overview

Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It spans Allen's early years and career playing highlife music in Lagos; his fifteen years with Fela, from 1964 until 1979; his struggles to form his own bands in Nigeria; and his emigration to France.

Allen embraced the drum set, rather than African handheld drums, early in his career, when drum kits were relatively rare in Africa. His story conveys a love of his craft along with the specifics of his practice. It also provides invaluable firsthand accounts of the explosive creativity in postcolonial African music, and the personal and artistic dynamics in Fela's Koola Lobitos and Africa 70, two of the greatest bands to ever play African music.

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A tribute to Tony Allen, oft-called The Godfather of UK Alternative Comedy 

Here, award-wining stand-up Becky Fury pays tribute to her long-time friend Tony Allen, who died yesterday morning, in London… (Photos from Becky’s collection) Becky Fury with Tony Allen Tony Allen was born like most people but, unlike most people, he was born on March 4th 1945, in the last months of WW2 in Hayes, Middlesex, to working-class parents.  Tony attributed much of the anarchic…