#tony allen

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Yannis accepts The Artist Award at the 2024 Rolling Stone Awards for Yannis & The Yaw

🎥RollingStoneUK

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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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La BOA (Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat) Meets Tony Allen (through the magic of Comet Records' archive of Tony Allen drum tracks)

Few sounds transcend time and space quite like the driving pulse of Afrobeat, and few artists, for that matter, have defined their own domains quite as profoundly as Tony Allen—the very beat of Afrobeat itself. In 2011, Allen recorded one of his inimitable rhythmic dialogues as part of the Afrobeat Makers Series for the Parisian imprint Comet Records. Charged with the same fervour for uninhibited expression that defined his trailblazing career, Tony Allen’s drumming, free from convention and charting its own course, emanates a cadenced stream of consciousness that speaks its own truth. If Allen’s language was his beat, then on this record, La BOA—La Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat—becomes his latest and most fitting interlocutor. What began as a tribute—a song named after Allen—now feels like the prelude to a deeper dialogue in a meeting that seems more like fate than mere happenstance. Led by producer Daniel Michel, the ever-evolving band has spent over ten years embodying the fluid, transformative spirit of Afrobeat, imprinting it with their distinctly Colombian sensibilities. From Casa Mambo in Bogotá, Michel’s Mambo Negro Records has become a cornerstone of Colombia’s underground scene championing Afro-Colombian and independent music throughout that time. Across this LP, Allen’s recordings lay down the canvas upon which La BOA paints its own vision of Afrobeat—raw and expansive, locking step with his drum tracks while building around the unmistakable blueprint of their Colombian rhythms: exuding Caribbean beat, rolling with Pacific groove, and, above all, shaped by the rarefied air of the Andean melting pot that is Bogotá. What ensues is an enduring conversation that crosses eras, borders, even life and death—a celebration of the passing of the baton and the boundless nature of Afrobeat as a genre that refuses to settle. Where the beat of Lagos meets the brass of Bogotá, so too La BOA meets Tony Allen.

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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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Infinite Playlist 2024 | Colaboración 1. Plane Trees (ft. Mustafa), Omar Apollo 2. Walk Through Fire, Yannis & The Yaw, Tony Allen 3. How Far Will We Take It?, Orville Peck, Noah Cyrus 4. Lejos de Más, pablopablo, Helado Negro 5. Girl, so confusing (ft. lorde) + I think about it all the time (ft. bon iver), Charli xcx 6. Run Away From The Rabbit, James Blake, Lil Yachty 7. Igual Que Un Ángel (with Peso Pluma), Kali Uchis 8. Coldstar., Gallant, boystrip 9. SPAGHETII (ft. Linda Martell, Shaboozey), Beyoncé 10. Witchy (ft. Childish Gambino), KAYTRANADA 11. Waited All Night, Jamie xx, Romy, Oliver Sim 12. Copo D'Água (ft. Marcos Valle) + Carmesim (ft. Carminho, Gabriele Leite) + Recomenzar (ft. Jorge Drexler), Silva

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

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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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Surely a new album by The Last Poets is the most significant release of the week! On Africanism, Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan each revisit four of their songs from the first two Last Poets albums, backed by Tony Allen (drum tracks recorded in 2019), Akinola Adio Oyebola and Kunle Justice from Fela Kuti's Egypt 80, Joe Armon-Jones, Kaidi Tatham, and Courtney Pine.

Click through to Bandcamp for John Masouri's liner notes.

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

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