TONY ALLEN

[SPlDEY]

Please give your respects to a true Afro beat legend.


https://youtu.be/wz2jXHKa7TY
https://youtu.be/zNru-AhcBwo

- spidey

 

[ketan]

I'm seeing this too -

 

[Duderonomy]

Shit. Hope he keeps beating.

 

[SPlDEY]

Nigerian pioneering drummer Tony Allen, a co-founder of the Afrobeat musical genre, died in Paris on Thursday aged 79, his manager says."We don't know the exact cause of death," Eric Trosset told AFP, adding it was not linked to the coronavirus.Allen was the drummer and musical director of musician Fela Kuti's famous band Africa '70 in the 1960-70s.Fela, who died in 1997, once said that "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat".https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52497008

RIP

 

[Electrode]

That distinctive beat lives on. I saw him play here 2013-14.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAioWa1uGuY

 

[SPlDEY]

https://youtu.be/ZbXV_xmpn_4

https://youtu.be/btsgr5MuSyg

https://youtu.be/tsCgaxzANNg

- Spidey

 

[SPlDEY]

Secret agent vs. Pretty Purdie
https://youtu.be/x_fY2WiaNpI

- D

 

[Yemsky]

A lot of people missed his 2014 contribution to the Unlimited Project, which unfortunately never saw a physical release. The videos are luckily still on YT including this mix where they let the drums roll solo for several minutes before bringing in the rest of the musicians.










https://youtu.be/jIIj56f8Rl0

 

[ketan]

A lot of music people have that "Fela" moment in their life - it's one of those things I wish I could re-experience for the first time again. But my point is that Tony Allen is largely responsible for that moment.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Yes exactly that - it was a moment like "oh shit, there's another complete language of groove that can move me the same as the old funk I'm obsessed with that I've never heard before". RIP to a guy whose achievements as an individual musician probably can't ever be bettered.

 

[SPlDEY]

His post-Fela recent work is also super impressive! Many older artists are nowhere near as prolific towards the end of their careers.

https://youtu.be/8-hMkHkoFrU
https://youtu.be/6g6qO3HxaKI
https://youtu.be/YphYOAEooSc
https://youtu.be/op_pSPOCAhI
https://youtu.be/30O92akDeJg

- Gogo

 

[SPlDEY]

Gorillaz – How Far? Ft. Tony Allen & Skepta: https://youtu.be/GiWduWEtma4

 

[Jimster]

Beat makers stand to attention,
Afrobeat was his invention.

Srs doe, leaving a legacy.

 

[prof_rockwell]

Randomly was craving some Fela yesterday while in the yard and wife was like “I think his drummer died”. Had no idea, guess The universe was telling me something.
In similar news, Manu Dibango died from COVID at the end of March, tried searching but didn’t see any mentions of it.

 

[Yemsky]

prof_rockwell said:

In similar news, Manu Dibango died from COVID at the end of March, tried searching but didn’t see any mentions of it.





Strut discussion

https://community.soulstrut.com/discussion/71054/manu-dibango-rip



News:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/24/manu-dibango-dies-coronavirus-cameroon-jazz-funk



Obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/24/manu-dibango-obituary

 

[Duderonomy]

SPlDEY said:

His post-Fela recent work is also super impressive! Many older artists are nowhere near as prolific towards the end of their careers.

https://youtu.be/30O92akDeJg

- Gogo






Free DL of just the drums!https://soundcloud.com/recordmakers/sebastien-tellier-la-ritournelle-tony-allens-beat-solo-track-free-dl

 

[ketan]

Just saw the credits for K Dot's Mortal Man and Fela credited, so there's a good chance the syncopation on this Sounwave beat is Tony Allen:

 

[ppadilha]

he made so much dope music the past 15-20 years that just seemed to kind of fly under the radar. I'm big fan of Psycho On Da Bus, and Homecooking has some nice rap experiments on it. The man never stopped expanding on the possibilities of afrobeat.

 

[Yemsky]

I still buy almost 100% of my music in physical form but the Unlimited Project album was one of the few in the last decade I downloaded as it does not exist on CD or vinyl. Here’s the “raw” studio version of Tony solo for a few minutes first:

https://youtu.be/ngxaUjIYX1Y
I also like some of the I strict Io so stuff you can find of him like this Masterclass from 2016:

https://youtu.be/zNru-AhcBwo