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LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
01. TONY ALLEN - Ise Nla
02. TONY ALLEN - Morose
03. TONY ALLEN - Aye Le
04. TONY ALLEN - Losun
05. TONY ALLEN - One Tree
06. TONY ALLEN - Ole
07. TONY ALLEN - Kilode
08. TONY ALLEN - Awa Na Re
09. TONY ALLEN - Ogogoro
10. TONY ALLEN - Moyege
11. TONY ALLEN - Gbedu
ARTIST
TITLE
Lagos No Shaking
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 020CD HJR 020CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/10/2009

2015 repress. The Honest Jon's label reissues this 2006 classic from Afrobeat co-creator and master drummer Tony Allen. The much-lauded Lagos No Shaking pays tribute to the powerful sounds and rhythms of Allen's homeland of Lagos, Nigeria, marking a return to the classic percussive stylings which harken back to his seminal contribution to Fela Kuti's Africa 70 and Egypt 80. This is the real thing -- raw and uncut, recorded in Lagos over 10 nights with a 20-piece band, including the finest musicians in the city, not least deep horn-blasting from Lekan Animashaun (Baba Ani) and Show Boy from the killer Fela line-ups, and the palm-wine veteran Fatai Rolling Dollar, who adds his throaty, commanding tones and throbbing agidigbo thumb piano to four tracks. There are the R&B sensibilities of Yinka Davies and Omololu Ogunleye; and Muritala Adisa adds touches of ewe, a form of spoken praise-singing rooted in ancient Yoruba tradition. But the key element is, of course, Allen's powerful, yet magnificently relaxed drumming, which keeps everything in perpetual rocking motion, tempering the hard funk edges of classic Afrobeat with earthier Lagosian flavors. Indeed, while the album's observations on Lagos life are aptly tough and sardonic, this is a warmer, more down-home, perhaps more humane album than anything Fela ever produced. Afro-funk, stone-classic dance music in 6-minute chunks. The 2LP version includes an extra track.