Album
There Is No End
2021 · Hip Hop, Jazz
Rare pressing on Gatefold
There Is No End is a Soul & Funk album by Tony Allen, originally released in 2021. On Gatefold: 9 pressings tracked.
About
On the intro to Tony Allen's posthumous <i>There Is No End</i>, we hear the voice of the iconic Nigerian-born, Paris-based drummer himself, explaining this album’s very title. Quite literally, he says “there is no end” to the hypnotic loop of a distinctive drum groove called Afrobeat, which Allen created and implemented as a cofounder of Fela Kuti’s groundbreaking band Africa 70. On a more spiritual note, there is no end to the creative legacy of a figure like Allen, despite his death in 2020 at 79. With Afrobeat’s supple accents and subdivision, its calm yet inescapable funk, Allen impacted groove-based music in a league comparable to fellow drummers Bernard Purdie and Clyde Stubblefield. .
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Tony’s Praeludium0:28
- 2Stumbling Down (feat. Sampa the Great)2:31
- 3Crushed Grapes (feat. Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon)3:17
- 4Très magnifique (feat. Tsunami)3:23
- 5Mau Mau (feat. Nah Eeto)3:09
- 6Coonta Kinte (feat. Zelooperz)3:08
- 7Rich Black (feat. KoreaTown Oddity)4:19
- 8One Inna Million (feat. Lava La Rue)3:20
- 9Gang On Holiday (Em I Go We?) [feat. Jeremiah Jae]3:04
- 10Deer In Headlights (feat. Danny Brown)4:03
- 11Hurt Your Soul (feat. Nate Bone)2:59
- 12My Own (feat. Marlowe)3:46
- 13Cosmosis (feat. Ben Okri & Skepta)4:44
- 14There’s No End0:26
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Afrobeat
- dense
- hypnotic
- funky
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Tony AllenDRUMS, PERCUSSION, BASS VOCALS
- Ben OkriFEATURING FEATURING, VOCALS
- Damon AlbarnBASS, KEYBOARDS
- Jeremiah JaeFEATURING
- Koreatown OddityFEATURING
- Lætitia BourgeoisVOCALS VOCALS , BACKING VOCALS
- Lava La RueFEATURING
- Lord Jah-Monte OgbonFEATURING
- Ludovic BruniGUITAR
- MarloweFEATURING
- Mathias AllamaneELECTRIC BASS
- Nah EetoFEATURING
- Nate BoneFEATURING
- Remi Kabaka Jr.PERCUSSION
- Sampa The GreatFEATURING FEATURING, VOCALS
- SkeptaFEATURING FEATURING, VOCALS
- Solemn BrighamVOCALS
- TsunamiFEATURING
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 9 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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