Browse by Artist: ALLEN, TONY

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Lagos No Shaking
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ASW 51322CD

"Since leaving Fela Kuti in the late '70s, Tony Allen has created a distinctive name for himself acting as bandleader, composer, and husky, rapping vocalist on a string of groundbreaking albums. He pushes the boundaries of African, rock, jazz and hip hop music, recording with the likes of Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade and Blur/Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn. Now with his brand new album for Honest Jons, Tony Allen returns to Lagos, one of the world's steamiest capitals of rhythm, for his most powerful, personal and all-African album to date, Lagos No Shaking. Drawing on Lagos' diverse musical traditions, Lagos No Shaking (slang for 'Lagos is doing OK') brings together several generations of musical talents into a bristling brew of unsurpassed rhythm. Collaborators include extraordinary 76 year-old vocalist Fatai Rolling Dollar, and legendary saxophonists Baba Ani and Show Boy from Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 and Egypt 80 line-ups. Lagos No Shaking is a love letter from Africa's city of rhythm featuring some its finest performers."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	One Tree: TP's Spirit Of Unity Mix / Instrumental
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 030EP

"Terrence Parker is an underground Detroit original. Unlike, say, Carl Craig or Claude Young, though -- both of whom are preparing mixes for this Honest Jon's series -- his music falls outside the city's techno traditions. Terrence Parker makes classic Detroit house. Since his debut in 1988 -- a collaboration with Marc Kinchen -- and then his legendary first solo EP, TP1, in 1990, Terrence has released more than a hundred records, under aliases like Disciples Of Jovon Blade, Disco Revisited, Plastic Soul Junkies, Minimum Wage Brothers, Seven Grand Housing Authority. These remixes are romping, stomping, tearaway house, the old school way."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Moyege
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 032EP

"Mark Ernestus, one half of the Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm & Sound teams, inaugurates our series of reworkings of tracks from Tony Allen's Lagos No Shaking album. 'Mark's Mix' is not a nowadays-style remix, more an extended mix in the classical tradition headed by Tom Moulton, back in the days when Francois Kevorkian was his teaboy, and there was a cupboard in his office stuffed with Studio One master-tapes. 'Mark's Disco Dub' is its dub. This record brings to Afrobeat the dubwise intelligence of the discomix. It's beautifully crafted, irresistibly grooving, heavy."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Ole Remix/Ise Nla Reggae Land Dub
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 036EP

With totally killer Mortiz von Oswald (Basic Channel) remix! "After Mark Ernestus' mix of 'Moyege' in this series, now his Basic Channel/Rhythm And Sound partner comes to the control tower. Moritz's deep Berlin steppers discloses dubwise traces of our original Lagos recording -- the percussion of Yinka Ogunye, the singing of '50s palmwine legend Rolling Dollar, Oscar Olimbi's guitar lick -- in with his own Oberheim voicings, additional drumming, and cool-and-deadly rhythm track. It's a tough, masterly dance record in fine Rhythm And Sound style -- which during its ten-and-a-half minutes seems to ponder time elapsed and journeys undertaken. Like a stepping razor, but t-u-m-p-i-n. This Reggae Land version is the take-no-prisoners, pared-down dub of Wareika Hill Sounds' rootical rework of Ise Nla. Magnificent trombone and percussion; expert, classical JA mixing. Brings to mind those great dubs of Glen Brown's 'Black Man Stand Up Pan Foot.'"

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Kilode Reworks by Waajeed
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 038EP

"Detroit native Waajeed cut his teeth with Slum Village, before forming the Platinum Pied Pipers in 2002. Recently he's stepped up solo and production projects -- check his ace Marvin vs. WJK edits from last year -- and for Honest Jon's he's totally re-worked Tony Allen's tough Afrobeat protest song: this is jazzy and soulful, percussive and a little bit bruk, with a gorgeous, searching vocal by Zaki Ibrahim. Together with an instrumental, and a grooving, roomy dub."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Hypnotic Brass Ensemble/Salah Ragab Reworks
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 041EP

"When The Hypnotics handed over this monster, they mentioned something about its 'Egyptian' vibe, so -- on top of the fact that a couple of them are sons of Ra trumpeter Phil Cohran -- it seemed apposite to couple it with new recordings made for us in Cairo by space jazz luminary Salah Ragab, who once himself recorded and toured with the Arkestra. The shimmering, burnished, refined funk of Sankofa takes Tony Allen's 'Losun' for its departure point; the Cairo side is a burning basement session in the Ra big-band tradition, full of life and living, heavy on the percussion and choca with fine solos."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Lagos No Shaking
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 020LP

"'The most important musician of the last fifty years,' according to Brian Eno -- and this is Tony Allen's best album. An Afro-funk masterclass, stone classic dance music in six-minute chunks: strictly no neo-dub or lounge-house fakery. Recorded in Lagos last year under the auspices of Honest Jons by a nineteen-piece including local newcomers alongside Fela veterans and fifties legend Rolling Dollar -- and brilliantly mixed in Berlin by Moritz von Oswald. Artwork as with Lagos Chop Up / All Routes by Lagos street artist Demola Ogunajo. The vinyl comes with an extra track and sounds even more stunning than the disc."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Lagos Shake: A Tony Allen Chop Up
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 034CD

Two years ago, Honest Jon's travelled to Lagos with the great drummer Tony Allen, to make his first recordings there since his time with Fela Kuti -- an album entitled Lagos No Shaking, a classic of contemporary Afrobeat. Since then, the label has widely commissioned numerous responses to those new sides: from legends of dance music culture like Basic Channel in Berlin, for example, and founding father of Detroit techno, Carl Craig; and young tigers like Dizzee Rascal's Newham Generals, MIA producer Diplo in Baltimore, and carioca sensations Bonde Do Role from Rio De Janeiro. There are also new recordings from Cairo, Saturn, Bogota and Kingston, Jamaica -- fresh interpretations or complete reworkings by the space jazz pioneer Salah Ragab, a street brass band descended from Sun Ra's Arkestra, highlife-inspired Afro-Colombian drummers from the village of San Palenque De Basilio, and a veteran of Count Ossie's Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari. Afrobeat, dub, jazz, chalupa, electro, highlife, techno, grime, carioca, champeta and funk from all corners, fizzing away together here... it could only be from Honest Jon's. Vinyl version includes 2 bonus tracks.

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