Archive For The “Afrobeat” Category
“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on 
Ambassadeurs – HIPHOPsoulAFROBEATdubstepD&BreggaeBREAKSmix by AmbassadeursI stumbled across SoundCloud ages ago and stored it away as ‘one of those things to get back to’. It seemed like a great way for sharing music, with an attractive inter…
At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his introduction, 
I had the immense pleasure of seeing this man live tonight – Mr Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat and Fela Kuti’s former drummer. Although I arrived late to the show, the rhythms got me grooving immediately and the strains of the week fell off lik…
