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Jeremy Allen
, April 29th, 2021 08:13
Featuring collaborations with Skepta, Ben Okri, and Danny Brown, the final album from afrobeat legend Tony Allen offers a fitting coda to one of music s great second acts, finds Jeremy Allen (no relation)
When Tony Allen died in Paris at the end of April last year, it came as a surprise despite his advancing years. I’d interviewed him just seven weeks before at the Sony offices in West London. He was in good spirits in anticipation of events planned around his eightieth birthday, and any taciturnity was offset with moments of avuncular warmth and a deep, gruff laugh which came from the diaphragm. Shock lay just around the corner. The world changed quickly and then the Afrobeat progenitor was gone even quicker still. Such a swift exit seemed to be at odds with his indomitable playing, his bullishness, his musical voraciousness. As one of African music’s immortals, you’d have been forgiven for assuming he’d outlast us all. His music cert