Tony Allen Announces New Album, Shares "Go Back" Featuring Damon Albarn
It's out in October
By Jeremy Gordon on July 2, 2014 at 10:15 a.m. EDT
Legendary drummer Tony Allen has shared "Go Back", a new song that features vocals and keyboards from Damon Albarn. Listen to it below. It's from a new album called Film of Life, which is out in October via Jazz Village. Below, you can watch a short teaser for the album.
Previously, Allen and Albarn were members of the Good, The Bad, & The Queen and Rocket Juice & the Moon, and collaborated on Allen's Home Cooking and Albarn's Africa Express project.
"Go Back":
Film of Life teaser:
Tony Oladipo Allen (born 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter who currently lives in Paris. His career and life story have been documented in his 2013 autobiography Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat, co-written with author/musician Michael E. Veal who previously wrote a comprehensive biography of Fela Kuti.[1]
As drummer and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979, Allen was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat music. Fela once stated that, "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat."[2] He has also been described byBrian Eno as "perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived."[3]
