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Tony Allen | Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld - 05.2016 🇳🇬👑

drone shots from Lagos: 📽️ @mirkopolo taken in Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld by @allencodrum

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A man whose pioneering rhythmic and stylistic influence will be felt for generations - Tony Allen is perhaps the most legendary artist to have ever performed at St James the Great. Today, we are honoured to share ‘Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)’, recorded live at Church of Sound in March 2020. Tragically, Tony Allen’s performance with us was his last before his untimely passing.

While we’re excited to be able to release such an important historical recording, we feel a great responsibility to honour his legacy in an appropriate manner. We’re extremely lucky and deeply grateful to have hosted Tony while he was still here, though we cannot help but also feel a heavy sadness that his last performance was with us. Particularly poignant is the fact that ‘Never…’ is a song originally written by Tony and Hugh Masekela about the void felt in Lagos following the death of Fela Kuti, their long-time friend and collaborator, and it was performed for us all on that night in March 2020 as Tony Allen’s final encore.

RIP Tony Oladipo Allen | July 20th 1940 - April 30th 2020

‘Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)’ is out now and Clapton Hymns Vol. 1: 10 Years of Church of Sound (2016 - 2026) is available to preorder.

Band:
Bass - Mutale Chashi @mutalechashi
Drums - Tony Allen @allencodrum
Guitar - Phil Dawson @phildawsonguitar
Rhodes - Kishon Khan @kishonkhan
Tenor Saxophone - Steve Williamson @steve.williamsonsaxophone
Trumpet - Claude Deppa @claudedeppa
Vocals & Shekere - Dele Sosimi @delesosimi

Production:
Director & Editor - Nathan Webber @nathanwebber_
Camera Operator - Ben Holman @beijafilms
Camera Operator - Fabrice Bourgelle @fabricebourgelle
Camera Operator - Sam Dixon @samcamdixon
Colourist - Ashly Sunny @ashly_sunny.colour
Recording Engineer - Luke Harvey @quinc_sounds
Assistant Engineer - Martin Omond @integer22
Mixing Engineer - Syd Kemp @sydkemp
Mastering Engineer - Jason Mitchell @jasonmitchellmastering taken in St James Clapton by @allencodrum

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In March 2020, Tony Allen brought the music of Rejoice to the stage in London, celebrating the remarkable album he created with his late friend and collaborator Hugh Masekela. by @allencodrum

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Tony Allen and producer Nick Gold talk about his first ever meeting with jazz legend Hugh Masekela.

To celebrate 40 years of World Circuit, we're reissuing @allencodrum and @hughmasekela's incredible collaborative album 'Rejoice'.

Pre-order now on orange, pink and white splatter vinyl: link in bio by @allencodrum

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‘Rejoice’, the classic special collaboration between @allencodrum and @HughMasekela, will be reissued on orange, pink and white splatter vinyl to celebrate 40 years of World Circuit Records.

Having first met in the ’70s through their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself, and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter.

Shortly after the very sad passing of Hugh Masekela in 2018, and with renewed resolution, Tony Allen and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Masekela’s estate, unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019.

Pre-order now at the link in bio. by @allencodrum

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Tony Allen JID018.

@allencodrum. One of the most influential drummers who ever lived, in a room at Linear Labs in the summer of 2018 with @adrianyounge. Eight original songs, 100% analog, straight to tape.

The founding father of Afrobeat, who built the rhythm alongside Fela Kuti and spent a career folding Yoruba polyrhythm, highlife, jazz and funk into a groove that still moves everything it touches.

The 18th installment of the Jazz Is Dead series, and one of the last records he made.

Add it to your collection at jazzisdead.com by @allencodrum

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Back in stock 🔥
Black Voices 2LP by Tony Allen

#tonyallen #cometrecords #pusherdistribution #afrobeatforthefuture by @allencodrum

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The maestro @midilivestudios during the recording sessions of his tribute to Art Blakey album
September 2016
📸 by @bernardbenant by @allencodrum

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Hands that shaped the night🙏🏿
Infinite rhythm
#thepulse by @allencodrum

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH STARTS HERE

The Afropop newsletter is the best place to celebrate this month! We’re featuring deep dives into Black musical genius in the US from the Harlem Renaissance and early blues to gospel, house, and techno — plus an exclusive feature on THE LAST POETS & TONY ALLEN tha bridges poetry, Afrobeat, and radical Black expression.

You’ll also get everything we published in January, all in one place:

🎙️ A moving tribute to Bob Weir and the AfroDead

🎶 A front-row report from New York’s January music explosion

🌍 Hip Deep explorations of the French Caribbean and Jewish communities of sub-Saharan Africa

🎧 Essential Afropop Classics, boundary-pushing interviews, and global sounds you won’t hear anywhere else

And we reveal if we hit our $100K year end goal…

📫 Sign up now so it lands in your inbox on 2/1. One email. Zero spam. Maximum music, history and culture.

🔥bit.ly/afropopnewsletter or click the 🔗 in bio 🔥

#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMusicHistory
#AfricanAmericanMusic
#BlackCulturalLegacy
#JazzBluesGospel
#ChicagoHouse
#DetroitTechno
#TheLastPoets
#TonyAllen
#AfropopWorldwide by @allencodrum

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Listen now, The Hardest Thing featuring Tony Allen. by @allencodrum

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@gorillaz - The Hardest Thing/Orange County ft Tony Allen, Bizarrap, Kara Jackson, Anoushka Shankar
these two tracks out of The Mountain, new album out 27th February.

The Hardest Thing
Written by Damon Albarn
Produced by Gorillaz, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton and Remi Kabaka Jr
Vocals by Gorillaz
Spoken words Tony Allen
Bansuri by Ajay Prasanna
Demon Strings Izzi Dunn on Cello, Kotono Sato on 1st Violin, Sarah Tuke on 2nd Violin and Ciara Ismail on Viola.
Trumpet by Chris Storr
Original artwork by Jamie Hewlett.

From the liner notes :
Miles famously said that the essence of music inhabited the “space between the
notes.” In a similar vein, Damon Albarn explained that
what made Tony a singular musician was his ability to create space, “the space of
Tony... to allow other things to inhabit the mind.”
“I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends.”

#gorillaz #damonalbarn #jamiehewlett #thehardestthing
#thereisnoend by @allencodrum

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