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"If his master occasionally lapsed into
rabble-rousing, Allen´s own compositions accumulate
power through slow, determined racking up of the energy.
5/5"
"In fact, with Allen keeping a comparatively
low profile, the big fat horn stabs, nagging guitar
and basslines, declamatory vocals and relentless rhythms
could easily pass for any Kuti disc of the same period.
For those who only know of Allen´s recent excursions with
The Good, The Bad & The Queen, these furiously funky
tracks will be a revelation. - Q recommends". |
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UNCUT (UK), Q MAGAZINE (UK)
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"Allen shaped Afrobeat, adding Yoruba rhythms
to colonial highlife, jazz and funk. He was integral
to Koola Lobitas and Africa 70, and when the pair
went their separate ways at the end of the 1970s,
Kuti needed four musicians to replace him."
"These remastered albums are given the finest package I've seen to date from Spain's Vampisoul label, with a gorgeous retro sleeve and a hefty booklet that brings to light many unheard stories". |
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MOJO (UK), DJ ANDUJAR-WMUA FM91 (USA)
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"Excellent".
"6/6". |
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ROCK & FOLK (France), SVENSKA DAGBLADET (Sweden) |
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Tony Allen
Afro Disco Beat |
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2XCD Digipack. Barcode: 84350088-61582
3xLP 140 Gram. Barcode: 84350088-61575
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Complete 70s anthology of the drummer and music director of african superstar FELA KUTI's band AFRICA 70, from 1968 until 1979, the creators of a new style called "Afrobeat" one of the (if not THE) hipest rhythmic music styles of the 70s. This monster pack includes Tony´s first four solo albums: Jealousy (´75), Progress (´76), No Accomodation for Lagos (´78), and No Discrimination (´79). The first three produced by Fela Kuti himself and with Africa 70, the last one with Tony´s band The Afro Messengers. Complete extensive liner notes inside.
Mild-mannered, but iron-willed, Tony Allen is the co-creator of afrobeat, and one of the most distinctive and in-demand drummers on the planet. No one swings like this Nigerian rhythm man – with that amazing, loose-limbed, poly-rhythmic technique that has powered some of the funkiest and most challenging dance music ever created.
Best known for his involvement with the late, great Fela Kuti, Tony Allen is very much more than Fela’s – or anyone else’s – drummer. Bandleader, composer and husky rapping vocalist, Tony Allen has recorded a string of groundbreaking solo albums since parting company with Fela in 1978 – sides that draw together African rhythm, funk, jazz, soul and hip hop. His inimitably propulsive skinwork has enhanced the work of an amazing range of artists, from afro-giants Manu Dibango, Ray Lema and Sunny Ade to British-Indian songstress Susheela Raman and Californian rock-rappers Spearhead.
But now after two decades of fusion adventures, Tony has come home, returning to his roots in one of the world’s most steaming capitals of rhythm, for his most powerful and personal album to date, ‘Lagos No Shaking’.
The recent upsurge of interest in afrobeat has seen this music drawn into every conceivable kind of crossover encounter, from endless dance remixes to hip hop and reggae collaborations. But ‘Lagos No Shaking’ is a return to core values: a testament to the fact that afrobeat is best served straight – hot, hard and percussion-heavy.
Tony Allen grew up surrounded by rhythm: the local palm-wine and juju sounds loved by his motor mechanic father, and the pan-African, big-band highlife then sweeping the clubs of Africa – exemplified by the great Ghanaian bandleader E. T. Mensah. The young Tony developed an obsession with drums. But opportunities to get near a kit were few and far between in 1950s Lagos. He made his professional debut at the age of 18, while working as a radio technician, playing claves with Sir Victor Olaiya – self-styled Evil Genius of Highlife – and his Cool Cats. When the regular drummer left, Tony was handed the sticks. He went on honing his technique with Negu Morris & the Heatwaves, the Nigerian Messengers and the Western Toppers Highlife Band; his role models Art Blakey and the brilliant Ghanaian drummer Guy Warren aka Koffi Ghanaba.
Then, in 1964, Tony was invited to audition for a band called Koola Lobitos, led by a young Nigerian just returned from music studies in London, named Fela Kuti. Fela’s influence on the young drummer was incalculable. But then so was Tony’s on Fela. Here was exactly the musician Fela had been looking for: capable of fusing jazz and highlife sensibilities and sounding, as Kuti put it, ‘like five drummers at once’. If Fela was afrobeat’s mind and mouth, Tony Allen was its arms and legs, his webs of cascading off-beats endlessly powering the music forward.
Allen split with Fela in 1978 – citing the bandleader’s lack of care for his musicians. He relocated to Paris in 1980, involving himself in an amazing diversity of collaborative projects over the succeeding decades.
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 1. Jealousy
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2. Hustler
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3. Progress
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4. Afro-Disco-Beat
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5. No Accomodation For Lagos
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6. African Message
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7. No Discrimination
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8. Road Safety
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9. Ariya
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10. Love Is A Natural Thing
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