Fela Kuti - Power Show. Seun Kuti Live == Lugano ==2007. Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy. Beng Beng Beng - Femi Kuti. Mixtapes | Ghana Mixtapes. Opposite Afrobeat Band. Kuti (Fela Anikulapo)
AfroBeat - Compilations. AfroBeat - Fusion (World) AfroBeat - France. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa. Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango (funk/break beat) Afrobeat. Tony Allen à l'atelier. Video: A drumming masterclass with Afrobeat legend Tony Allen. Tony Allen with Africa 70 - Afro Disco Beat. Tony Allen - Secret Agent. Tony Allen: The veteran Afrobeat drummer is shaking his sticks as hard and as brilliantly as ever - Features - Music. Listen to Allen's extraordinary cross-rhythms on all those great Fela Kuti records and you realise he's not exaggerating.
"Most composers write a drum part with a regular beat that anybody in the whole world could play," he says. "I always like to extract the beat that's there and then try lots of different beats and different ways of drumming around it. That's the only way not to get bored. " Brian Eno and Damon Albarn have described Allen as the greatest drummer on the planet – and it's hard to disagree.
Drumming is a highly physical discipline, but at 67 Allen shows no sign of letting up. He has his own explanation for his indefatigability. Small and wiry with a beanie pulled down over his ears, he meets me in Paris, where he has lived for the past 20 years. "Damon's a genius," he says. They met after Albarn inserted the line "Tony Allen... really got me dancing" into the lyrics of Blur's 2000 single "Music is My Radar". "Then I read an article by Max Roach about the hi-hat. About | Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble. Akoya Afrobeat is one of New York’s most original and longest running Afrobeat Bands.
Started in 2002, Akoya has grown into a 14-piece multicultural Afrobeat Ensemble that includes musicians from Nigeria, Benin, South Africa, Botswana, Japan and the United States. The Akoya ranks are filled with some of New York’s finest musicians who have performed with Fela’s Egypt 80 Band, Fela! The Musical, Antibalas, Arcade Fire and Zozo Afrobeat, to name a few. Akoya’s first two records, “Introducing the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble” and “PDP,” have been distributed in the US, Japan and Europe on both vinyl and CD. 2005′s “Introducing…” was met with critical acclaim, and Akoya quickly gained the reputation of being one of the strongest new Afrobeat bands on the global scene. You can purchase “Introducing the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble” here. For our second record, “P.D.P. Akoya loves vinyl records. Akoya afrobeat ensemble - oluya.