The Journey Back is out now on all DSP's and available to pre-order on limited edition vinyl as part of 'My Winter' - an EP by Steve Jansen.

Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/track/7rGiB9pf2K9BLJ76h7amGj?si=d6099db4ba6b4f11

Bandcamp > https://stevejansen.bandcamp.com/track/the-journey-back-3

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Steve Jansen - The Journey Back

Golden Dusk - Let Me Chill is a smooth instrumental chill album with deep instrumental vibes and an Ibiza-inspired touch. Each track flows into the next, building a warm and immersive atmosphere that reflects the beauty of autumn - golden leaves, fading sunsets, and calm introspection. Perfect for cozy evenings, late-night drives, or relaxing by the sea.

Moonlit Waves

Dusted + Loaded

http://drcmusic.org An album of Congolese music entitled Kinshasa One Two by DRC Music, a collective gathered by Damon Albarn, is released digitally by Warp Records on 3rd October 2011 with a CD/vinyl release to follow on 7th November, to benefit Oxfam.

PREORDER NOW - PROFITS GO TO OXFAM'S WORK IN DRC & DRC MUSICIANS
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Kinshasa One Two was made during 5 days of sessions in Kinshasa this summer when the DRC Music collective teamed up with the best of contemporary Congolese musicians and performers. The collective comprises the eclectic production talents of: T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes, with album artwork by Hardy Blechman and Aitor Throup.

Lingala (featuring Bokatola System and Evala Litongo)

Our Garden Needs Its Flowers

Clipo Clipo

Rejoice

Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

Keleketla!

Freedom Groove (feat. Antibalas, Nono Nkoane, Tamar Osborn, The Watts Prophets & Tony Allen)

We've Landed

We've Landed (Matthew Herbert's Absence Dub Remix)

When We Are

Source (Maxwell Owin remix)

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.”

We've Landed (Matthew Herbert's Absence Dub Remix)

Tony Allen

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