Artist.......: Tony Allen
Album........: Live
Label........: Comet
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: 037
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-21-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-2004
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Asiko 11:34
02. Black Voices 07:24
03. Dont Fight 09:41
04. Yeshe 11:40
05. No Accomodation 10:06
06. Kindness 11:22
07. Eparapo 12:07
Runtime 73:54 min
Size 93,8 MB
Release Notes:
Tony Allen : drums, lead vocal - Cesar Anot : Bass
- Claude Dibongue : Guitar - Jean Phi Dary : Piano
Rhodes, Clavinet & Synths - Nicolas Giraud :
Trumpet, Shakere. Live in Vancouver, Montreux & Sao
Paulo - Released in 2004 on Comet, Paris.
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The drummer and unofficial music director of the
late Fela Kuti's band, Africa 70, from 1968 until
1979, Tony Allen (born Tony Oladipo Allen) helped
create the sounds of Afro-beat. With his solo
recordings, however, Allen has refused to remain
stagnant, incorporating dub and avant-garde hip-hop
influences into his modern African dance music.
A self-taught musician, Allen began to play drums
at the age of 18 while working as a technician for
a Nigerian radio station. Within nine months, he
had embarked on a professional career as a drummer.
Although they had known each other since the early
'60s, when they performed on the Nigerian music
circuit with different bands, Allen and Kuti began
playing American-style jazz together in 1964.
Before long, they shifted to a more
African-influenced style of highlife jazz, which
they continued to play for five years.
Forming Africa 70 in 1969, Allen and Kuti began
reaching out to an international audience. A few
months later, while touring North America for the
first time, Allen was introduced to the music of
James Brown, Max Roach, and Art Blakey. Despite
critical acclaim, the group faced numerous
obstacles, including financial difficulties, racial
discrimination, and political oppression. Arrested
during the first of a long series of
government-sponsored raids of black townships in
1974, Allen spent three days in jail. The following
year, he released his first album as a leader,
Progress. After performing his last show with Kuti
and Africa 70 at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1979,
Allen continued to play with his group Lagos until
emigrating to Europe in 1984. After temporarily
living in London, he settled in France the
following year and worked as a session drummer for
such transplanted African musicians as Ray Lema and
Manu DiBango, and released N.E.P.A. (Never Expect
Power Always) in 1985.
Allen was largely inactive for the next decade,
re-emerging in the late '90s with a string of
singles, culminating in the release of Home Cooking
in 2002. Reissues of his '70s solo albums started
showing up around the same time, as well as Eager
Hands and Restless Feet: The Best of Tony Allen, a
summation of his post-Fela career. In 2004 a live
album came out, and 2006 saw a return to his
Afro-Beat roots with Lagos No Shaking, which was
recorded in the Nigerian city itself.