Tony Allen

Sobre El Orinoco - Virgilio Armas Y Su Cuarteto

Le duo germano-chilien de chamans  Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer qui réinvente "African Man" avec une science du beat minimaliste, le Londonien Fort Romeau qui injecte un élégant rythme discoïde dans "Go Back"… Entre deep house revival et soul de science fiction, voilà un coup de maître, une véritable extension du domaine du groove du grand maître Tony Allen.

Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) [Fort Romeau Absolut Remix]

African Man (Villalobos - Loderbauer ZuHouse Remix)

Port Of Spain Hustle

Wolf Eats Wolf

Push And Pull

On Fire

The Hygrades-In the Jungle (Instrumental)

In advance of her Columbus debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 10, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid curated this playlist for fans & fellow music lovers. Enjoy!

*Audiobook* Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre

Angel Bat Dawid, Transition East

Shapes: Sideways

The Edge (Swarvy Remix) [feat. Quantic]

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.

Allen had to overcome strong parental opposition to realise his dream of
becoming a professional musician. “My parents were…not keen. Back then, in Lagos, musicians were more or less thought of as beggars, or worse. But I just put it in front of them. I was an electrical technician, but I wanted to make a change. My mother was never happy about it, but my father, who was an amateur musician, eventually agreed.”

Allen started out as a jazz drummer. “Art Blakey was my big influence, and before that, before I started club crawling, it was Gene Krupa. When I started, I tried to play like Gene Krupa. Then I discovered Blue Note Records and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers - it opened up another style to me. Max Roach was important too. I studied some lessons he wrote in Down Beat magazine about how to play high-hats. Most drummers in Lagos never used them, they were just a decoration on the kit,and I’d always thought that was something incomplete.”

On Fire

Tony Allen

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