We were saddened to learn of the passing of Tony Allen, Fela's drummer, a true pioneer in blending African and Western music.
He later played with Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur) in both The Good, The Bad, & The Queen (which featured The Clash's Paul Simonon on bass) and in Rocket Juice and The Moon (who put out a 2012 album feat Flea on bass).
Allen played percussion on this newly-released Gorillaz track "How Far?" (above)...
... and at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1978 (below), Allen played with Fela and The Cream's Ginger Baker:
Damon Albarn provided the vocals and Tony Allen the percussion on 2014's "Go Back", which appeared on Allen's Film Of Life album...
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