Tony Allen (musician)

Tony Allen
Allen at Oslo Jazzfestival 2015
Background information
Sunan haihuwa	Tony Oladipo Allen
Born	(1940 -07-20)20 Yuli 1940 Lagos, British Nigeria
Mutuwa	30 Afrilu 2020(2020-04-30) (shekaru 79) Paris, France
Genre (en)	Afrobeat
Drummer composer songwriter
Kayan kida	Drums percussion
Years active	1968–2020

Tony Allen at the Eurockéennes of 2007

Tony Oladipo Allen (20 ga Yulin 1940 - 30 ga Afrilu 2020) ya kasance dan Najeriya da Faransa mai bugawa, mawaƙi, kuma marubucin waƙa wanda ya zauna kuma ya yi aiki a Paris, Faransa . Allen ya kasance mai bugawa da kuma darektan kiɗa na ƙungiyar Fela Kuti ta Afirka '70 daga 1968 zuwa 1979, kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa nau'in Afrobeat. Fela sau ɗa ya bayyana cewa "ba tare da Tony Allen ba, ba za a sami Afrobeat ba". Brian Eno ya bayyana shi a matsayin "watakila mafi girman mawaƙi wanda ya taɓa rayuwa".

Daga baya a rayuwa, Allen ya yi aiki tare da Damon Albarn akan ayyuka da yawa, ciki har da Gorillaz, the Good, the Bad & the Queen da Rocket Juice & Moon. An rubuta aikin Allen da rayuwarsa a cikin tarihin rayuwarsa na 2013 Tony Allen: Jagoran Drummer na Afrobeat, wanda aka rubuta tare da Michael E. Veal, wanda a baya ya rubuta cikakken tarihin rayuwar Fela Kuti.

Farkon aiki

haifi Allen a Legas, Najeriya ga James Alabi Allen, masanin injiniya daga Birtaniya Najeriya (yanzu Najeriya) da Prudentia Mettle, daga Gold Coast (yanzu Ghana), Ya fara buga kara yana da shekaru 18, yayin da yake aiki a matsayin injiniya don tashar rediyo. Allen ya sami rinjaye daga kiɗa mahaifinsa ya saurara: Jùjú, sanannen kiɗa na Yoruba daga shekarun 1940, amma kuma jazz na Amurka, da kuma yanayin rayuwa mai girma a Najeriya da Ghana. Allen ya yi aiki tuƙuru don haɓaka murya ta musamman a kan drum, yana nazarin LPs da labaran mujallu ta Max Roach">Max Roach da Art Blakey, amma kuma mai ba da gudummawa na Ghana Guy Warren (wanda daga baya aka sani da Kofi Ghanaba - wanda ya haɓaka sauti mai tsananin buƙata wanda ya haɗu da ƙabilar Ghana da ke yin amfani da bop - yana aiki tare da Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, da Max Roach).

"Sir" Victor Olaiya ne ya hayar Allen don yin wasa tare da ƙungiyarsa mai girma, Cool Cats . Allen ya sami damar cika kujerar drum din lokacin da tsohon mai bugawa na Cool Cats ya bar ƙungiyar. Allen daga baya ya yi wasa tare da Agu Norris da Heatwaves, Manzanni na Najeriya, da Melody Makers.

Fela da Afirka '70

A shekara ta 1964, Fela Kuti ya gayyaci Allen zuwa sauraro don ƙungiyar jazz-highlife da yake kafawa. Kuti da Allen sun yi wasa tare a matsayin 'yan wasa a zagaye na Legas. Fela ya yaba da sauti na musamman na Allen: "Ta yaya ka kasance mutum daya tilo a Najeriya wanda ke taka leda kamar haka - jazz da highlife?" Ta haka ne Allen ya zama memba na asali na ƙungiyar "Koola Lobitos" ta Kuti.

A shekara ta 1969, bayan tafiya mai rikitarwa da ilimi zuwa Amurka, Allen ya yi aiki a matsayin darektan kiɗa na ƙungiyar Fela, Afirka '70, wanda ya haɓaka sabon sauti na Afirka, ya haɗu da ƙuƙwalwar ƙuƙwalwa da ƙu'walwar duniya na rai tare da jazz, highlife, da samfurin polyrhythmic na tarurrukan Yoruba. Allen ya haɓaka sabon salon don haɓaka sabon ƙuƙwar Afirka ta Fela wanda ya haɗu waɗannan nau'ikan daban-daban.

Allen ya ba da labarin yadda shi da Fela suka rubuta a cikin 1970: "Fela ta kasance tana rubuta sassan ga dukkan mawaƙa a cikin ƙungiyar (Afirka '70). Ni kaɗai ne ya samo asali da kiɗan da na buga. Fela zai tambayi wane irin rhythm da nake so in yi wasa.... Kuna iya gaya wa mai kyau mai bugawa saboda muna da gaɓoɓi huɗu... kuma suna... wasa abubuwa daban-daban... alamu ba kawai daga Yoruba ba... [amma] wasu sassan Najeriya da Afirka"

Allen ya rubuta fiye da kundi 30 tare da Fela da Afirka '70. Amma a ƙarshen 1970s, rashin jituwa yana ƙaruwa a cikin rukunin Afirka '70, Tattaunawar kan sarauta / biyan kuɗi da kuma karɓa sun karu da ƙarfi. A matsayinsa na mai kirkirar rhythms wanda ya goyi bayan Afrobeat da darektan kiɗa, Allen ya ji an raina shi musamman. Fela ya tsaya a kan kansa, yana mai cewa zai sami sarauta don waƙoƙinsa. Fela ya goyi bayan rikodin solo guda uku na Allen: Kishi ('75), Ci gaba ('77), Babu Kasuwanci Ga Legas ('79), amma a shekara ta 1979, Allen ya zaɓi barin Afirka '70, yana ɗauke da mambobi da yawa tare da shi. "'Me ya sa na yanke shawarar cewa lokaci ya yi da zan tafi? Yana da ... komai...da kuma (rashin kulawa...kamar ba ya damuwa, kamar bai sani ba ...Ba ya jin cewa ya yi komai (ba daidai ba). Kuma tare da dukkan kwayar cuta da ke kewaye da su.... akwai mutane 71 a kan yawon shakatawa a yanzu kuma 30 ne kawai ke aiki a cikin ƙungiyar....Dole ne ku tambayi dalilin da ya sa. Wadannan maza suna satar Fela daga ƙarfinsa, daga kiɗansa.Don haka Tony ya ci gaba, kuma yana neman sautin kansa. "

Afrobeat zuwa Afrofunk

Tony Allen (1988)

Allen ya kafa ƙungiyarsa, ya yi rikodin No Discrimination a 1980, kuma ya yi aiki a Legas har sai ya yi hijira zuwa London a 1984. Daga baya ya koma Paris, Allen ya yi rikodin tare da Sarki Sunny Adé, Ray Lema da Manu Dibango . Allen ya rubuta N.E.P.A. a shekarar 1985.

R&B-Fela, Allen ya haɓaka sauti mai haɗuwa, ya rushe kuma ya haɗu da Afrobeat tare da lantarki, Dub, R & B, da rap. Allen yana nufin wannan kira a matsayin afrofunk .

Allen ya dawo tare da sabon aikin da ake tsammani sosai don sakin sa na 13. An yi rikodin kai tsaye a Legas, tare da cikakken ƙungiyar Afrobeat, Legas No Shaking (Lagos yana da kyau) ya nuna dawowar Allen zuwa tushen Afrobeat bayan ya shiga cikin haɗin lantarki na gaba. An saki Lagos No Shaking a ranar 13 ga Yuni 2006.

Ayyukan da suka biyo baya

cikin "Music Is My Radar" (2000) Blur ya girmama shi, kuma waƙar ta ƙare tare da Damon Albarn yana maimaita kalmar "Tony Allen ya same ni rawa".

Allen ya bayyana a cikin kundin tarihin Red Hot Organization na Red Hot and Riot (2002) a matsayin girmamawa ga Fela Kuti . Allen ya bayyana tare da Res, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul da Archie Shepp a kan waƙar da ake kira "Babu Yarjejeniya".

Allen ta buga kara a cikin kundin Love Trap na 2003 na Susheela Raman kuma ta yi tare da ita kai tsaye. Allen rubuta kundin "Live/Tony Allen" (2004) kuma.

A shekara ta 2006, Allen ya shiga Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, da Simon Tong a matsayin mai bugawa ga Good, the Bad & the Queen . Allen tuntubi Albarn bayan ya ji wakar "Music Is My Radar" ta 2000 ta ƙungiyar Albarn ta Blur, wacce ta yi nuni da shi. Sun fito kundi na farko mai taken kansu a cikin 2007, Merrie Land ya biyo baya a cikin 2018. Allen Albarn sun kuma hada kai a kan kundin Rocket Juice & the Moon na 2012.

Allen buga kara a kan waƙoƙi biyu a cikin kundi na 5:55 na Charlotte Gainsbourg na 2007: "5:55" da "Night-Time Intermission", wanda duo na Faransa Air da Jarvis Cocker na Pulp Iska goyi bayan. Ya kuma bayyana yana wasa da kara a cikin bidiyon "Once Upon a Time" na duo Air na Faransa a ƙarshen 2007.

Ya kasance mai zane-zane a kan kundin Zap Mama Supermoon (2007) da ReCreation (2009), yana ƙara muryarsa ga waƙoƙin "1000 Ways" da "African Diamond".

Kundin sa mai taken, Secret Agent, an sake shi a watan Yunin 2009 ta hanyar World Circuit .

Ya fitar da A Tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (2017), EP mai waƙoƙi huɗu a kan Blue Note Records wanda ke nuna sake fasalin Afrobeat na Art Blakey's "Moanin'". A cikin 2017, Allen ta haɗu da mawaƙan Mali Oumou Sangaré don waƙar "Yere faga" daga kundin Mogoya .

shir fina-finai Opiyo Okeyo ya fitar da fim din Birth of Afrobeat (2019) game da rayuwar Allen a cikin kiɗa. din nuna a bikin fina-finai na Black Film na Amurka kuma ya lashe lambar yabo ta 21st Century Fox Global Inclusion Award for Emerging Voices a bikin fina'a na BlackStar. Damon Albarn da Tony Allen da ƙungiyar sun yi wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Netherlands, daga cikin lokacin Lowlands Festival (2019). Haihuwar Afrobeat ta samo asali ne daga gidan Talabijin na Jama'a na Amurka kuma ta fara fitowa a talabijin a ranar 20 ga Janairu, 2020 a kan PBS.

An nuna Allen a kan waƙar Gorillaz "How Far?" (2020) tare da Skepta, a matsayin wani ɓangare na aikin Song Machine na ƙungiyar.

An saki kundi biyu na Allen bayan mutuwarsa. Akwai Babu Ƙarshen (2021) ya nuna Allen a kan samarwa, tare da rappers da mawaƙa daga ko'ina cikin duniya. Sun ha da Danny Brown, Nah Eeto da Sampa the Great . Sakamakon na biyu bayan mutuwar Allen shine The Solution Is Restless, kundin haɗin gwiwa wanda ke nuna Joan As Police Woman da Dave Okumu .

2021 kuma ga sakin kundin Afrilu Maris In Cinerama, wanda ke nuna Allen a matsayin mai bugawa; an kuma yaba masa don rubuce-rubuce da yawa.

Bayanan da aka yi

Solo discography

• Jealousy (1975)
• Progress (1977)
• No Accommodation for Lagos (1979)
• No Discrimination (1979)
• Never Expect Power Always (with Afrobeat 2000) (1985)
• Too Many Prisoners (with Zebra Crossing) (1987)
• Afrobeat Express (1989)
• Ariya (1998)
• Ariya (remixes) (1999)
• Black Voices (1999)
• Black Voices Remixed (2000)
• Psyco On Da Bus (with Doctor L, Jean Phi Dary, Jeff Kellner & Cesar Anot) (2001)
• HomeCooking (2002)
• Live (2004)
• Lagos No Shaking (2006)
• Secret Agent (2009)
• Inspiration Information 4 (with Jimi Tenor) (2009)
• Black Voices Revisited (2010)
• Film of Life (2014)
• A Tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (2014)
• The Source (2017)
• OTO Live Series (with Jimi Tenor) (2018)
• Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (with Jeff Mills) (2018)
• Rejoice (with Hugh Masekela) (2020)
• How Far? (with Gorillaz and Skepta) (2020)
• There Is No End (2021)
• The Solution Is Restless (with Dave Okumu and Joan As Police Woman) (2021)

with Fela Kuti

• Fela's London Scene (1970)
• Live! (1971)
• Why Black Man Dey Suffer (1971)
• Open & Close (1971)
• Roforofo Fight (1972)
• Shakara (1972)
• Afrodisiac (1973)
• Gentleman (1973)
• Confusion (1974)
• He Miss Road (1974)
• Alagbon Close (1975)
• Everything Scatter (1975)
• Excuse O (1975)
• Expensive Shit (1975)
• Monkey Banana (1975)
• Noise For Vendor Mouth (1975)
• Ikoyi Blindness (1976)
• Kalakuta Show (1976)
• Na Poi (1976)
• Unnecessary Begging (1976)
• Upside Down (1976)
• Yellow Fever (1976)
• Fear Not For Man (1977)
• J.J.D – Live at Kalakuta Republik (1977)
• No Agreement (1977)
• Opposite People (1977)
• Sorrow Tears and Blood (1977)
• Shuffering and Shmiling (1977)
• Stalemate (1977)
• Zombie (1977)
• Unknown Soldier (1979)
• V.I.P. (1979)
• Music of Many Colours (1980)
• I Go Shout Plenty (1986, recorded in 1977)

Other appearances

• Various - Racubah! – A Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms (1999)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 1 (2000)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 2 (2000)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 3 (2000)
• Various - Afrobeat...No Go Die! (2000)
• Ernest Ranglin - Modern Answers To Old Problems (2000)
• Doctor L - Mountains Will Never Surrender (2000)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble (2001)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 4 (2001)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 5 (2001)
• Various - The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 6 (2001)
• Bababatteur - Awa Band (2004)
• New Cool Collective - Trippin (2006)
• The Good, the Bad & the Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen (2007)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (2007)
• Rocket Juice & the Moon - Rocket Juice & the Moon (2012)
• Various - The Rough Guide to African Disco (2013)
• Chicago Afrobeat Project - What Goes Up (2017)
• Gonjasufi - Mandela Effect (2017)
• The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land (2018)
• Keleketla - Keleketla! (2020)
• Adrian Younge - Tony Allen JID018 (2023)

See also

• Femi Kuti
• Seun Kuti

Haɗin waje

• Tony Allen at AllMusic
• Tony Allen on Bandcamp
• Tony Allen discography at Discogs
• Tony Allen discography at MusicBrainz