Tony Allen – The Source (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:43 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Jazz
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On September 8, Afrobeat legend Tony Allen will release The Source, the Nigerian-born Paris-based drummer’s debut full-length album for Blue Note Records, following the tantalizing 4-track EP release A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Read moreTony Allen & Jeff Mills – Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:12 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Jazz, Electronic
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Tony Allen and Jeff Mills’ story began back in December 2016 in Paris, when they decided to share the New Morning’s stage in front of an audience that was completely dazzled by the encounter of these two giants of rhythm. While the Nigerian started his career as Fela Kuti’s drummer, the American – as few people know – also started out on drums before he began developing techno music with a few friends in Detroit. Collaborating on an album made perfect sense, Tony Allen being the one who first put the idea forward. After playing with Damon Albarn, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Moritz von Osward, he was delighted to find a partner who so masterfully handled the beat: “The difference is that Jeff can play with me, whereas the others cannot play with me. I can only play with them, but they cannot play with me.”
Read moreTony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (Special Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:57 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © World Circuit
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela’s classic collaborative album Rejoice will be reissued in Special Edition formats on October 22nd, available as a 2CD Casebook, 180g Gatefold 2LP and streaming & download. For this Special Edition release, World Circuit have gone back to Allen & Masekela’s original 2010 mixes and added previously unheard parts from the follow-up 2019 sessions to create 8 reimagined bonus mixes. The physical formats will also feature liner notes and photos. ‘Slow Bones (Cool Cats Mix)’ is the first of the bonus mixes made available to stream now.
Read moreTony Allen – Rejoice (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:16 minutes | 809 MB | Genre: Jazz
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‘Rejoice’ is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master of South African jazz. Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an afrobeat album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter. The unfinished sessions, consisting of all original compositions by the pair, lay in archive until after Hugh passed away in 2018. With renewed resolution, Tony Allen and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Hugh’s estate, unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019 at the same London studio where the original sessions had taken place. ‘Rejoice’ can be seen as the long overdue confluence of two mighty African musical rivers – a union of two free-flowing souls for whom borders, whether physical or stylistic, are things to pass through or ignore completely. According to Allen, the album deals in “a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew”, with its roots firmly in afrobeat.
Read moreTony Allen – There Is No End (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Afrobeat legend Tony Allen died in the spring of 2020 at the age of 79. The year prior, the iconic drummer wrote and produced all of the beats for a newly announced album: There Is No End is out on April 30, the anniversary of Allen’s death, via Blue Note.
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