Inspiration Information Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen SKU: STRUT43LP Barcode: 0730003304316 26.00 £26.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Strut Released Date: 12th March 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Back in October 2009, Strut’s Inspiration Information series was in full swing. Following an acclaimed collaboration between Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics, Finnish maverick Jimi Tenor hit the studio for a mouth-watering head to head with Afrobeat drumming legend, Tony Allen. Tenor had already built a reputation as a fascinating enigma in modern day music. Consistently one of the most inspired and unpredictable live artists around, his work since his breakthrough album ‘Intervision’ (Warp, 1997) had involved open-minded projects ranging from live film soundtracks and orchestral pieces to a series of Afro-based albums with his band Kabu Kabu. Enjoying a burgeoning revival, Tony Allen had continued to attract new fans. Celebrated as the creator of the Afrobeat rhythm and a lynchpin of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 band, his work at the time of this recording had included the first album as The Good, The Bad & The Queen with Damon Albarn and his debut recording for World Circuit Records, ‘Secret Agent’. Recorded at Lovelite Studios in Berlin during November 2008 ith further sessions in Finland and Paris, the Tenor / Allen collaboration whipped up a raw, heavy analogue sound mixing the full range of Allen’s Afrobeat repertoire with Tenor’s off-kilter brew of dark humour, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and tight, firing musicianship. The sessions involved key members of Tenor’s Kabu Kabu band and Berlin-based guest MC Allonymous with tracks evolving naturally from jamming ideas together over five intense days of recording, fuelled by plenty of African food and whisky. Tenor’s trademark range of home-made instruments rubbed shoulders with vintage keyboards and traditional African percussion. The resulting set became one of the best recordings that both artists produced during this period. Tracks range from Jimi’s S&M tableau, ‘Darker Side of Night’ to the apocalyptic commentary on our times, ‘Path To Wisdom’ and the hilarious lampooning of the UK immigration system, ‘Mama England’, composed on the Tenor tour bus. The album also featured fusions based around more traditional low-slung Afrobeat structures (‘Sinuhe’, ‘Got My Egusi’) and ended with the epic freestyle juggernaut, ‘Three Continents’, a life affirming, mesmeric groove built around another rough-as-nails Allenko rhythm base. ‘Inspiration Information: Jimi Tenor / Tony Allen’ is re-released on 22nd February 2021 and is dedicated to the memory of the great, incomparable Tony Allen. First reissue of long out-of-print and sought after release from 2009 Unique fusion of Afrobeat drumming and psychedelic Jazz Vinyl cut from original sessions Dedicated to the memory of the great, incomparable Tony Allen Artist Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen Genre World / Fusion Label Strut Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Track Listings A1. Against The Wall (Feat. Allonymous) A2. Sinuhe A3. Selfish Gene B1. Darker Side Of Light B2. Got My Egusi C1. Path To Wisdom (Feat. Allonymous) C2. Cella’S Walk C3. Mama England D1. 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