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Tony Allen 1940-2020
 This time COVID-19 didn't intervene, but damn this hurts. https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNRFoyTldzeEVnSmxiaWdBUA E?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Allen_(musician) |
WF!? is 2016 happening again? :(
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And remember how that year ended? :(:mad: |
Tragic loss. Incredible musician and man.
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From The Wire:
 How pedals and hi-hats revolutionised Afrobeat. Tony Allen tells all to Francis Gooding February 2016 Tony Allen talks about his and Fela Kuti's early group Koola Lobitos, four-limbed drumming, the necessity of hi-hats to Afrobeat, his favourite jazz drummers, and how Black Panther Sandra Isidore politicised Fela. Interview by Francis Gooding |
From The Wire:
Tony Allen 1940–2020 "The truth is that Tony could keep better time than any drum machine, but his emigration to Europe coincided with the increasing mechanisation of dance music." Allen's biographer and some time musical collaborator Michael Veal traces the ever evolving work of the heart-steady Afrobeat drummer |
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