On The Floor! - Live at Broad Casting feat Hypnotic Brass Ensemble & guests

Tony Allen

World Circuit, Nigeria

This unique live session features a wonderful collaboration between Tony Allen and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a 9-piece brass ensemble formed in Chicago and recently signed to Honest Jons Records. The show also features a whole heap of special guests including Ty, Nutty and the legendary Senagalese artist Baaba Maal. As always, we were lucky to record this very special Broadcasting session hosted by Karen P exclusively for Red Bull Music Academy Radio at Cargo in London. It was an incredible show stretching out for two hours and featuring some truly goose-bump inducing moments. We have distilled the finest moments from the multi-track recording into this 1-hour radio show. Enjoy! Fela once said that without Tony Allen, he'd need four drummers at once. Of course, the style we know as afrobeat wouldn't sound anything like it without Tony Allen. A true intuitive pioneer, Mr Allen managed to mix the brevity and snap of jazz drumming by the likes of Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Guy Warren, with the deep extended forms of African rhythms from highlife, and yoruba. The musical conversation between Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks and Tony Allen is still being felt today, having influenced practically every new genre of dance music the '70s onwards. Still flipping poly-rhythms today, Tony works with artists like TY and Damon Albarn, as well as inspiring remixes of his music from producers like Carl Craig, Waajeed and Basic Channel's Moritz von Oswald. The original Mr Up Side Down.