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Sampa The Great has shared her first new music in nearly three years, a single entitled ‘Lane’.The song, released today (April 27), also features American rapper Denzel Curry. ‘Lane’ marks the first time the two artists have worked together on their own song, having previously both featured on The Avalanches‘ ‘Take Care In Your Dreaming’ two years prior.

Foals‘ Yannis Philippakis has shared the first taster of his long-awaited project with late Fela Kuti legend Tony Allen – as well as launching new collaborative project Yannis & The Yaw. Check out the single ‘Walk Through Fire’ below, and watch our interview with the frontman above.Philippakis has been teasing the project for some years, first revealing news of sessions with the drummer to NME back in 2017.

Foals‘ Yannis Philippakis and the late Tony Allen will finally arrive next week.Philippakis first spoke about to NME about working on music with Allen back in in 2017. The pioneering Afrobeat drummer, who played with both Fela Kuti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, died in 2020 and the music had been in development for some time ahead of his passing.“I’ve been writing with Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer,” Philippakis told NME in 2017. “I started doing some tracks with him last year and then I was on tour.

Liam Gallagher has given his ruthless verdict on a resurfaced clip of his brother Noel playing a version of Gorillaz’ ‘Dare’ with Damon Albarn. The video was captured in December 2015 at a 60th birthday party for Paul Simonon, the bassist in The Clash, who is also part of the performance. Noel Gallagher is singing the vocal that was originally recorded by the Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder while playing guitar, and Albarn is singing his original melody line from the 2005 song, with Simonon on bass.

Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has spoken to NME about making his theatrical debut by penning the music for new play The Confessions, as well as his long-mooted project with the late Tony Allen.Having opened at London’s National Theatre last week before a press showing last night (October 23), The Confessions is an emotional, gut-wrenching and powerful play written and directed Alexander Zeldin – telling the story of his mother’s life across eight “tumultuous” decades across two continents and a series of complex relationships.Philippakis and Zeldin have known each other since their days at school, when they would sneak away to smoke together on a nearby riverbank. Speaking with NME, the artist explained how the director had “a reputation that preceded him a bit” as someone “ferociously intelligent, but with a naughty streak”.“We’ve just been in each other’s lives for a long time, but with differing orbits and different worlds,” Philippakis told NME.

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Foals have revealed that plans are afoot for side-projects and solo albums from within the band – including frontman Yannis Philippakis’ long-awaited record with Fela Kuti icon Tony Allen.The Oxford band were speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to launch their upcoming seventh album, ‘Life Is Yours’.Philippakis first revealed that he had been at work on a side-project with Fela Kuti percussionist Allen back in 2017, before telling NME of his plans to finish the record in April 2020 – just weeks before the icon died.Yannis has now revealed that he has plans to return to Paris, where Allen was living, to finish the project later this month – as well as discussing how the drummer’s passing shaped his own creative outlook during the writing of ‘Life Is Yours’.“In relation to Tony, it was understanding that even though he’s gone physically from the world, the music that he made will go on forever,” Philippakis told NME. “When I’m gone, the songs will hopefully live on.”He added: “There’s an alchemy in looking at music in that way.

Joan As Police Woman has announced a run of headline shows in 2022 across Australia and New Zealand.The artist – aka Joan Wasser – dropped her latest album, ‘The Solution Is Restless’ last Friday (November 5), a collaborative effort featuring The Invisible‘s Dave Okumu and drummer Tony Allen prior to his passing.On Allen, Wasser talked of their meeting in a press release.

The Invisible‘s Dave Okumu and legendary drummer Tony Allen, shortly before his death in April of last year.‘Geometry of You’ is the second song to be lifted from a forthcoming collaborative record from the trio, ‘The Solution Is Restless’, which is set to arrive on November 5 via PIAS.“‘Geometry of You’ is a song about the intersection of math and sensuality.

Tony Allen and The Invisible’s Dave Okumu.‘The Solution is Restless’ is the ninth studio album by Wasser under her long-running project. It is also one of the final studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.Born out of a night-long improvisation session in a Parisian studio, ‘The Solution is Restless’ will be released on November 5 via PIAS Recordings.

Skepta has announced his new EP ‘All In’.The Tottenham rapper has yet to release any solo material in 2021, though he has featured on songs by the likes of Slowthai, the late Tony Allen and Pop Smoke this year.Announcing ‘All In’ on his Instagram Stories last night (June 22), Skepta confirmed that he had been working on the release with the producer and engineer Joshua Faulkner.“2020 was [woozy emoji] but still we made a lot of ideas,” Skepta wrote.

Tony Allen, which sees the drummer team up with Sampa The Great, has been released.‘Stumbling Down’ is the second track to be taken from Allen’s upcoming album ‘There Is No End’, which will be the first to be released since his death.The Afrobeat icon produced, wrote and recorded the album’s beats in 2019 alongside Vincent Taeger.

Tony Allen has been announced – get all the details below.Tributes poured in from across the world when Allen, who drummed for Fela Kuti, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and many more across a distinguished career, died aged 79 last year.‘There Is No End’ will be released on April 30 on Decca France, and a first single – co-written by Damon Albarn and featuring Skepta and Nigerian poet Ben Okri – has been released today (March 12).“Recording ‘Cosmosis’ was the last time I hung out with Tony,”

America United [the recently-announced theme of the celebration],” said Tony Allen, CEO of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, in a statement. The 90-minute patriotic program, dubbed “Celebrating America,” will feature segments and performances highlighting “the strength of our democracy, the perseverance of our people, and our ability to come together during trying times and emerge stronger than ever before,” according to a press release.

Moses Boyd, FKA Twigs, Arlo Parks and Flying Lotus were among the big winners at the AIM Independent Music Awards.

AIM’s Independent Music Awards will take place tonight, the whole event having shifted online because of pesky COVID-19. And, organisers have confirmed, the proceedings will end with a Damon Alban-led tribute to the late great Tony Allen.The Afrobeat drummer, who died in April, will receive a posthumous Outstanding Contribution To Music award during the show.

Damon Albarn is set to perform at the AIM Awards’ virtual ceremony tomorrow evening (August 12) in tribute to Tony Allen.The AIM Awards 2020 will honour Allen with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award following the Afrobeat pioneer’s death earlier this year, and will see some of his friends and collaborators come together for a special performance.Joining Albarn will be Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso, Gorillaz’ Seye Adelekan and Remi Kabaka Jr, and The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s Simon

Doves have announced details of their first album in 11 years as well as sharing new single ‘Prisoners’. Check it out below along with our exclusive interview with frontman Jimi Goodwin.Having recently shared the Tony Allen-sampling comeback single ‘Carousels‘, the indie veterans have now revealed that they’ll be dropping their fifth album ‘The Universal Want’ in September.

Tony Allen is set to be honoured posthumously at this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards.The AIM Awards 2020, which will take place online on August 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, will honour Allen with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award.The full list of nominations for the AIM Awards 2020 has been announced today (June 17), with drill rapper Digga D and electronic-jazz drummer Moses Boyd earning three nods each.Hania Rani, Greentea Peng, Floating Points and Flying Lotus all have

Influential Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen has posthumously been given an AIM Independent Music Awards prize in recognition of his career.

Gorillaz have shared the fourth song from their Song Machine series. "How Far?" features London grime king Skepta and the iconic Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, who died last week. The song “was written and recorded with Skepta in London just before lockdown and is being shared immediately as a tribute to the spirit of a great man, Tony Allen,” the band said in a statement to press over the weekend.

By Jordan Moreau

Gorillaz are paying tribute to late Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen with the release of the band's new song "How Far?""The track was written and recorded with Skepta in London just before lockdown and is being shared immediately as a tribute to the spirit of a great man, Tony Allen," Gorillaz said in a statement Saturday (May 2).Allen, a longtime friend and music collaborator of Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, is also featured on the track.

The track is Damon Albarn's most recent collaboration with Allen

He was considered one of the world’s best and greatest drummers. Yes, we are talking about Tony Allen. The legendary Nigerian drummer who also co-founded the popular Afrobeat genre breathed his last on Wednesday evening. He was 79 and died of a heart attack in Paris as revealed by his manager Eric Trosset which also clarifies his death has no link to Coronavirus. Tony had collaborated with another noted musician Fela Kuti and was a part of the latter’s band Africa ’70.

It’s difficult to exaggerate the scale of Tony Allen’s talent and influence. The Nigerian drummer joined Fela Kuti’s band when the soon-to-be-legendary performer was still impersonating James Brown. Allen introduced the iconic polyrhythms that would define Afrobeat music as much as Fela’s saxophone or outsized personality. He died suddenly from an aneurysm yesterday in Paris, leaving behind a legacy that spans decades, genres, and continents.

LAGOS — Nigerian drummer and composer Tony Allen, who worked closely with musician Fela Kuti as a pioneer of the Afrobeat genre, died in Paris aged 79, his manager said.

Tony Allen, drummer, Fela Kuti collaborator and celebrated innovator of the Afrobeat genre, has died. He was 79.

The pair made some music together that will "hopefully see the light of day soon"

Recorded live in Pisa in autumn 2019

The legendary percussionist is considered a co-founder of the Afrobeat genre

Tony Allen, a celebrated innovator of the Afrobeat genre, died on Thursday (April 30) in Paris. He was 79 years old.

Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, “Rejoice” (World Circuit Records)

Nick Gold ran the independent London-based World Circuit label on a simple premise. “I thought if you love something, there’s a chance that someone else will too,” says Gold, who opened up the typically niche market for world music to a wide au

Tony Allen has announced a new record, titled Rejoice, which he recorded with trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Take a listen to the track “We’ve Landed” and view the full track list and album art below.