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Welcome To The Music
"fela kuti" Discussed on Welcome To The Music
"Brother was gone by the culture. Food everything i thought. Lay everything you think you would associate with home. Whether it's your family the street you live on school. You went to the music you listen to all of those things that make up an identity was ripped away from me and i was still here so what. It taught me a really young age. Was that dog. None of that is actually who you are who you are actually something. That's that's in the hanadova all of those things. All of those things can change and you can still be here. Learned that less than a young age. The other layer. I think is because i was always a combination of going to six different high schools which i- i limited the but that's a lot that's more high school years in and and and also being black also being an immigrant also being nerdy can. I was a black kid. Didn't fit into the black kid. Like how do i know what use your illusion is where ninety nine percent of black musicians. Don't it's i was listening. Like i was a black headed didn't fit. I was an immigrant. I was a lot of things that were outsider. Right and so i was always. I think when you're always changing the sea near in and when you're always being the outsider then for me it was always like well. Who am i going to be at this new school and this is a channel someone better at school or i don't like these things about high was treated at my other school suggest what i'm going to drop the nerdy sweaters amana administer blake basketball like so every school change was a chance for me to reinvent myself and i think you know i hear this from a lot of people of color. I hear this from a lot of where folks who have a really strong sense of how they present themselves and they're always playing with it. It's because when how you present yourself you know summertime could put you in danger. Sometimes it could just make you an outcast. Sometimes it could just make you like you were penalized. If you didn't present yourself well. And i think that makes you hyper aware of a truth. And this is the core layer the most important mayor. All human beings are always changing ourselves. You think about it. If you're gonna work you dress away you talk away act away. If you're going out for a night on the town you might not even recognize that person that you see at the office right. 'cause they gonna address a different way active way. See him at a family gathering or christening at a church. Were always changing our clothes and becoming someone else. And i think my upbringing just made me hyper aware of it and i was always just kind of like. Oh that's just something you play with. Bats not something. That's that's fixed is who i am is somewhere else. It doesn't depend on my clothes it doesn't depend on. My friends doesn't depend on where i live. Even it doesn't even depend on the language. I speak or or or anything and that was at first terrifying thing but when you get used to it you realize that's kind of one of the most profound truths of of being human being so that's a big answer. I generally is a really core question understanding me and can and this colleagues distant world be on like literally. Before i got here. I've got a clause at will commit narrowly there. Jackie hurry john jackets. 'antonio michael jackets walking like to do different lies there But again i never. I never felt that was unnatural. I never felt it was because trying to hide. I just saw. When i sa- what i saw was that everybody was doing it day. Just were intentional. Or didn't understand that they could change it for their benefit or they do 'cause come on dig and women understand this law right lake. If you're going if you invite a women to go to somewhere to function what she gonna ask you. She's gonna go. What kind of function as they. What's new what's Improved what's new by alike because she's trying to figure out. How do i present myself. And so it's very normal for us to be so when i was in a punk rock i wasn't gonna wear church. Boy sweaters yo. I need a Army jacket with some patches on it and and some art on it and some lake stitch fela kuti's face into it. And and i need a bad ass punk rock nickname. I always dress dressing for the party. You not mean so there you go again we were. my cousin. Had a birthday recently rented out this bar on on queen street and my brothers asking me my other cousins asking me saying what's the dress code is this a lounges bar said dude. I'm too old for this shit wearing jeans and a t shirt and i couldn't care less. What the vibes. So this is how i'm going. Yeah one because you want to make sure you're just a part of that is of interest to you but number two. I've been dressing for my home for the for the last twenty months you know so i don't know what it's like to dress up anymore right. We never liked that shit anyway. This that's a lot of work. were man i. it's funny i will. I will say though that. I went into one of my clients offices and got dressed up for probably the first time in eighteen months and it felt good. And you're right. It was like you know it's like even when i speak at conferences on stage. A different persona. That's bottling up all my energies anxieties going blah as persona but it was nice to get dressed up and put on the nice shoes that i have a good on in eighteen months down to liberty village and meet my client. Yeah yeah no i did. I died assam. Total disgust shock. You one single. In person book events and i've shun probably two hundred bucks events since the canadian lines in any us launch of the butts in the last nine ten months so but only one was in person any. It was just awkward awkward. But.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"fela kuti" Discussed on Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"Foot. Work was better than some drummers handwork. That guy was the absolute greatest drummer ginger baker. When he'll never get the credit because he wasn't in led zeppelin and he wasn't in the who check. Ginger baker is pretty highly regarded as drummer. Yes he is in can. Actually what i would. I would watch thirty seconds of that video. I ate trump solos. All i know you remember when we were younger and we would go and see arrowsmith. And they would say. Oh my god. Joey koroma did a trump solo and he actually put down his sticks and start playing with his hands with news for you. Johanna original pickup. You fucking sticks. Get the rest of the band out there and play some fucking music asshole. Yeah I think one of the best drum solos. I saw blue. The cult at the boston garden woodland show when he did godzilla and the drummer ducks his head. Back and comes up with a godzilla ahead on it was actually. I was a senior. Is is nineteen eighty-one right. So you gotta think how. How cool is it. The guy just kind of comes up. And he's playing the drums. Soloing godzilla with the godzilla. Matt helmet like big ahead on. Okay all is good the show. That's cool but it illustrates the point that the only thing that was interesting about that drum solo was that he was wearing a fucking rubber mask. Look at when you're at the you're at the concert and you shit face you know you. Just you're in the testosterone flying. Oh no no no anytime there that i start hearing alex van halen. I'm like all right. I'm going to be. Yeah because you lack to stoskopf back then no no no no. It's just boring boring boring boring. You have low t. levels. Did you have lacy levels when you were fifteen now now. Did you suffer from low. T. do suffer from low album saying is watch that video not for the drums just to watch now. No okay podcast listeners. Podcast listeners and livestream viewers. Don't watch that video an interesting thing. Ginger baker you know john. Boehner played with led zeppelin. Ginger baker played with cream blind. Faith fela kuti in africa. Love fela kuti rock and roll hall of famer and now nominated. He didn't get in. No he did not get in he should be he said slowly..
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"fela kuti" Discussed on Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"Ching someone got paid for those bomber on this day in two thousand eleven. This is the greatest this day in history. I'll ever read on this day in two thousand eleven star ships we built. This city was named the worst song of the eighties. I gotta say where song ever in a poll by rolling stone magazine. The final countdown. By the swedish band europe came in second and lady and read by krista. berg was third. What also making the top five cams wake me up before you go go and the safety dance by men without hats. Don't let tabby here your that. She loves the safety shade. Loves loves loves loves the safety dance. It was a sad day on this day in two thousand nineteen ginger bak- the legendary drummer and co founder. Who we just spoke about last week. My man my drummer co founder of the rock band cream died at the age of eighty the drama co-founded cream cream in nineteen sixty six with eric clapton. Jack bruce. The band released four albums before splitting up in sixty eight after which he formed. The short lived band blind. Faith with clapton. Steve winwood and rick baker one of the most innovative and influential drubbings and rock. Music also played with blind faith Hawk wind and fela kuti and along very career in nineteen sixty two joined. alexis korner's blues incorporated on the recommendation of charlie watts. Because chali could swing who leaving to join the rolling stones and later gained early fame as a member of the graham bond organisation alongside bassist. Jack bruce the i i gotta tell you something you know what bums me out a little bit about the whole charlie thing i mean look he lived a good long life and he was a legend and whatnot but there is a little expose on him a tribute to have been rolling stone magazine. You have know artists that are paying tribute in. It's good for five page spread. But how do you not give the death of charlie watts the cover and they didn't right. Joe charlie. Watts had a big car collection big classic collection and didn't know how to drive a license. Never never learned how to drive and it was another very sad day on this day in two thousand twenty eddie van halen the revered guitarist and co founder of the rock van rock band van halen.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"fela kuti" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"I remember being is probably nineteen or twenty and quest love from the roots started getting really obsessed with fela kuti and i was on his message. Board okay player. You be posting about different fail stuff. And i was like i should check this out and when i first heard fail i was like. Oh how did i not know about this. One of the greatest music ever was like this is the most amazing thing i've ever heard in my entire life and i had not heard of it until nine months ago and i hear those sounds in talking heads records a lot. There's a lot of that you know is dance music where there's a lot of stuff going on you know. There's a lot of interplay that came a little bit later but yes started being aware of african pop music me severe in later on our very immersed in kind of latin american music and boorda was pop music singer. Songwriter dance bands. Whatever yes this was all part of new york to this Not so much. That african bands they would come through occasionally play to to the community but the latin music was just all over new york and during that period. Just clubs everywhere. It didn't obviously. There was not a lot of crossover. With the kind of punk rockers type coexisted they existed at the same time Joe kuba would occasionally play. Cbgb's correct say rabe. Roberto would you double bill with. They've played village gate. Which was is now bruce and they play their. I think was on thursdays. They had a series called salsa meets jazz. Where there be like ray burritos band and then some incredible jazz soloist. Pretty pretty good name. Who would sit in and kind of improvising. Take solos during some of the dance breaks and there was a dance floor in the club so the people would dance and there was tables around the side there was also. It was music for dancing. That was also really great music too. So yeah so. I realized that you can get people to move their bodies. If you play music that has that kind of rhythmic collection connection. You can kind of hang a lot of things on that you can hang a lot of ideas and what you want to say lyrical stuff musical stuff. Keep the groove going and you can really re carry a lot of baggage with that that things. That might seem difficult to put in front of an audience in other ways but if you've got their assets moving they're you know are you can kind of put a lot of things out there. I have read in a thousand different places people describing you as possibly being on the autism spectrum. And i don't know whether that's something that came from a diagnosis or came from just people saying well. This guy has a history of performing awkwardness onstage. Sometimes or or whatever. But i wondered like you know there are things that people associate with autism who are neuro typical that you know social awkwardness. Those kinds of things the sort of obvious things but like those differences in how brains work are much more expansive than just you know. It's challenging to read faces for somebody who's narrow divergent lake and i wondered if that is something that you thought about yourself and be if there are like ways you've noticed. Your brain is different from a lot of the people around you you know sensory sensitivities or ways you organize your thoughts and you're like oh you don't do that okay. Obviously i'm not socially awkward as was in the past when yes and i was fairly. Socially awkward in the past was very uncomfortable. Just kind of having normal conversations with people being around whole groups of people. So i'd hang around with some friends i have some friends and i'd hang around with and let them do the talking. And do the introduction. I would just kind of vicariously a be part of that. It some point. I'm fred this whole idea of. The spectrum became convinced idea that was being floated around in a friend of mine. Said david look. That's you that is definitely do. They always things they fit. I mean it was in my case was pretty mild not debilitating In as probably many people have said it's a kind of superpower away. You're very uncomfortable. Socially socially so. There are certain drawbacks. They're certainly big drawbacks in that way. But there's other advantages. I could concentrate focus on kind of learning guitar parts or writing or doing whatever it was i was doing before you can really focus because shuttle that other stuff out. You don't get distracted by that so that it's it has some advantages tend to want tends to take a view of the world as been described as like an anthropologist from mars you tend to as you said. Look at folks and go. Oh when people do this it means this and you're trying to understand. Why do people do this. Why do they act like that. Why do they say that. And why do they make. Does that face mean all those kinds of things. This is not nothing too extreme. That's it sounds a little exaggerated the as i describe it. But there's an element of that of in it's apparent and a lot of the songs that i've written where i'm trying to understand people's human behavior. What does it mean. what does that signify. What's that about. And everybody does that recognizes those things but not not. Everybody like steps back and goes. Oh why are you doing that. Which sometimes things like. Well that's just what we do but then when to stop and go but why are you doing. It is a very different thing. Yeah i mean. I think that that is true. For many to all artists is that there is something in their life that has led them to.
A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"fela kuti" Discussed on A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"Nineteen forty eight and she is an american rb disco house music singer and an actor actress. Mona drop you some joints on her acting but she scored hits with if my friends could see me now. Bridge will trouble water runaway. Love what you just heard and red light and you know. She was associated with curtis mayfield. She did a slow jam. Me and you baby with curtis mayfield. That's a slick song as beautiful. Beautiful song but misled. The clifford comes from new york and she is a former miss new york state and she fronted at jazz music trio before switching to r&b. Now this is what. I didn't know about linda clifford. She had a minor role in films. Such as the bosses strangler with. Tony curtis and henry fonda cubans bluff with clint eastwood and also she had a minor role is sweet charity. Was shirley maclaine you know and Miss miss clifford. She was a satisfied with her roles but she decided to concentrate on her singing career. And it was just took off from there. And let me tell you something her album. If my friends qasimi now the single was a hit in clubs and on the billboard hot one hundred it was her first number one onto billboard dance chart. Her album of the same name became a most successful and also included runaway. Love wolf and that song was hot back in the days. You know what i'm saying. So like i said bis linda clifford. We celebrate you right here on a bullet soul. She's still going strong and she is also a member of the first lady's of disco and this is the bowl so we get back play you some funk instrumental from this band called budo span called ti. Be wf and this is a bowl of song. This is eric. B turner and you're listening to professor t love on a bone of soul amidst to of soul music. You're listening to evolve and work you giving you some psychedelic. Sixties psychedelic soul afro funky. Here a lot of that sounds like fela kuti but it is apple soul inspired by ethiopian music. Definitely this group. The budo span is an american instrumental band from staten island new york who had been in existed since two thousand and five and you know one of the members is also the founder of depth tone records and thomas brenick who also was in the band of the late great sharon jones and adapt kinks and we celebrate on a bowl of saw the budo span homegrown from new york city. Staten island and this is a bullet soul. We gotta bring you some more instrumental slow at funk from the legend terry booker t. jones talking about the hive and this is a bowl of so can't off do.
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"fela kuti" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"You mean by non-negotiable meeting. I mean a knowingness. That's incontrovertible we know it in our bones. I'm always surprised by the degree to which. When i land on the knowingness the thing that i'm most afraid of evaporates. I think people have this idea and a lot of people come into session with me. And they're like you know. Of course they wanna feel better. They want to solve their problem. They pretty much are sure. They know what their problem is. But my thing is always if we knew what our problem is. We'd have the solution. We're not accurately defining the problem for not actually noticing. What is the sequence and the rhythm of things that are happening. And how can i interrupt that sequence with compassion. So that there's a higher level of organization you know so much of your work centers on the importance of connection as a way to resolve loneliness but more than that till Elevate our purpose to elevate our ability to make the best forms of humans that we can be and being connected as hard in the best of times but after this year it is so hard and there are so many ways in which maybe our physical selves have wanted to connect with people over the last year and a half that we have had to overwrite with our minds and really great example of that. That you talk about is is masks. How we needed masks but masks did. A thing to us was not a useful thing. I wonder if you might describe that. Our entire autonomic nervous system which is comprised of the social nervous system. The sympathetic and the pair sympathetic is organized to scan the world for our sense of safety to keep us safe and at the social nervous system level were unconsciously scanning each other's face facial expressions all the time to tell us is person with us or against us. Are they understanding us. Do they like us. Do they want us to come closer. Do they want us to get farther away. And we're doing this both consciously and unconsciously all the time. Well you put a mask on. And you've only got about somewhere between thirty percent and fifty percent of someone's face to see how they're responding to you. That is a big handicap. Because it's taking away our innate way that we're perceiving if this person is somebody that wants to be around us and that we can trust so i've been joking because now it feels to me that wearing a mask. It's like taking the mass down as like the new strip. Tease like the reveal of the nose. And the mouth is been really interesting for me to see because It definitely impacts some people way more than others. Which are the people. That are even more reliant on those social connections to determine their level of safety but it's normal for all of us in especially if you come from a particularly expressive culture right. Some cultures really express themselves facially a ton and some cultures don't express themselves facially that much so that would impact. How threatening the masks to us and then over time of course we can adapt to anything but the question is is that adaptation in service of our bio intelligence and service of our full lifeforce expression in service of mammals being with other mammals in a co regulatory loop as the world begins to open up and as we come to the close of a school year. Like what happens for you next while my daughter's going into high school now and she wants to go to high school here. So that's how. I'm making the next choice. I just wrote a book and as you know from being in the book process. It's a huge offering. And in this book specifically the first book that i wrote was really about an aspirational experience that i wish that i would've had that. I hope that culturally we rise to the occasion of this book is really like i am the jaguar like this is the culmination of my entire life path. So i think there's a postpartum experienced that too. And i have an another project the first trimester general. That's coming out at the end of june. But i'm really interested in structuring ritual. For us to decide how we're going to gather. I wanna be a part of this movement. Towards what is the new culture looked like. How do we build the world that we want to belong to. And how do i help. Build the world that i want my daughter to belong to. Yeah i really hear that. How do we get together again. How do we be together. Does this ever work this thing. We're doing now. I mean god. It is so nice to see you like you know it. It feels pretty great. Is it enough. This concept in trauma work called titrate. It's a chemical term in. It's when you have to substances and you are looking for one of the substances to change form so you do it. Drop by drop because if you were just pour the whole thing in the container would explode so you do it. Drop by drop so that that solution can slowly change form. That's how i help people renegotiate trauma. And that's what i think. We all need to keep in mind now. Is that in some ways. The structures are doing the trading. Because it was. I like okay. You can go out but you it's only takeout and like okay. Now it's okay to sit inside but wear your masks now. You can sit inside. But don't wear masks but because our experiences are so individual we need to be really tracking how that lives in us Is this enough for me. It's really a lot better than nothing. there's been a lot of times during this pandemic when i've gone into complete collapse. Rebellion about it. Just like i want to just flip the tables and like burns zoom to the ground and don't want to just don't wanna do it. It's maybe good enough. But i'm not satisfied by. Yeah yeah if you've been isolated and you haven't been used to being around other people being around other people's very activating word nervous systems interacting with nervous systems and it's flooding our system and we're getting overwhelmed. That is so normal so we have to titrate it. But that doesn't mean opting completely out all the time so we can opt out some of the time but you know instead of going to the party for three hours you go for thirty minutes and you're like i'm just getting myself a little bit used to it. Not exposure therapy. Not like i'm going to do the thing that feels terrifying and just like do it until i go numb no like do it a little bit. That feels good and then go back away and we have to play with this proximity. Because it's insane. I mean we've adapted like you. And i are like digging this but we have two screens between us and then so if we were to stand in the same room together like that's a lot of energy right and everything that we've talked about. This gotten built up between that time. I mean we could just be like hey when we get together. Maybe we should the next time we get together. We'll just have like a dance party together before we talk. My pandemic song has been The song by fela kuti's ambi- and and so that's just been my song of lake just just bounce it out get it out you know. Move it like there's just. I can only be in the blah's in the mobilization for so long like move together because as human animals we have lots of other ways of being together besides connecting brain to brain and voice to voice and those other ways are actually were starving for them. Even if we don't know it yeah. Thank you so much kim. It was great to have you on the show thank you. That was kimberly johnson. Her new book is called call of the wild. How we heal. Trauma awaken our own power and use it for good hope. You'll join us for office hours. It's our weekly coffee break producer. Sarah storm and i literally fill cubs and dish out the show with you this week. We want to know how you're feeling tell us what's going on how you seek support and most important. What you're doing for others will go live as usual wednesday afternoon at three pm. Eastern will be on the lincoln news. Page you can also find us by following lincoln news or emailing. Hello monday at lincoln dot com for the link. A special treat this week. You heard clare burson right at the top of the show. I asked claire to record her new song.
A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"fela kuti" Discussed on A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music
"Now. You know that's you know i love the baseline you know one thing about if you learned funk and you wanna learn baselines you know. James brown attracted some of the best musicians. I feel like drummers warn people and one of the bass players that joined his ban as a young man was busey collins buzi collins and his brother i believe catfish collins joined his band. And you know one thing about james brown songs. They have killer grooves and you can hear a lot of james brown's influence on records and africa especially nigeria ghana. You know this was the era where they did a lot of their own funk around this time around one thousand nine hundred sixty nine thousand nine hundred sixty eight and i believe james brown also had an influence on african musicians at this time during this period in the mid to late sixties and you can hear it especially in fela kuti's records you can hear it but this was a killer song i loved. This saw mother popcorn. You gotta have a mother for me is a song which was recorded by james brown and released as a two part single in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. This song was a number one. Rb hit eleven pop hits. It was the highest charting of a series of recordings inspired by the popular. Dance the popcorn which came out at this time. And you know. James brown. Ges basically capitalized on ed. He added the popcorn lowdown popcorn. You just heard previously let a man come in and do the popcorn but this right here. This song. this is killer distance. This song i love. The baseline is like killer bass licks and it really is a bad groove is really in the pocket you know. The song was released in june of one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and it was recorded may thirteenth nineteen sixty-nine and king studios in cincinnati ohio. Wow and the songwriter again. Alfred pee wee ellis in james brown and james round produce this single and beat structure the beat in structure you know. He used a a great amount of activity. They said some much agitated sixteenth note movement from the horn section. Like i said this is classic funk this definitely is funk right here you know and james brown perfected it you know. And we celebrate. James joseph brown right here on a bullet soul. Well i love that. Gimme some popcorn. And we're gonna give you suba for mr james brown and this is a bowl of soul. Wow who that sets good good so so me season got a you got something and tells me to got some were thomas and i'm super bad loving. Don't need some.
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"fela kuti" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"I'm using you help your game. Podcast now i mean this is again. I truly believe in what we're doing and the like again. What it's becoming glaringly obvious that the pr pr perspective. The tides turned into oil and gas industry. And and i think this will we're doing to help. Producers mitigate flare and not waste gas is a good honest. I step forward and say. Hey we're we're trying to tackle this problem. We're doing this. We're reducing flare by mining bitcoin. We're becoming more profitable. And again when she play out the secondary and tertiary order effects of of the ripple effects that this could have on efficient capital allocation within the industry. You can make the argument that hey this could lead the less. Well drilling legal pipeline. Construction will be better off for the for the environment at the end of the day. If you actually play out how in your mind how this could progress moving forward. Yeah no it makes. It makes a lotta sense because at the end of the day there are always two kinds of environmentalists. There's the absolute and you're never gonna you're never gonna pisa's folks until they get the fly around on their private plane and all of us after walk so that that's when john kerry will finally be happy but with i think. The vast majority of environmentalists as well as just americans in general man if we just give better every day. That's you know that's the key to it is just like we have been. We've done. i think it pretty good job. Making the transition to natural gas from coal and that's certainly made made the The world a better place but every day. If we can just tackle these problems incrementally i think I think we're going to be better off. But before i let you go. You got to tell me about your playlist. And i kinda hits you at this Because we've been doing this on the podcast for about four or five episodes now and it's actually pretty cool. We've had What we'll do. We'll post the playlist them. I think i mail. You did bring a playlist podcast. And you're like aren't gonna talk is podcast you know. Now it's it's you know. I have one guy The last broadcast bomber. Who gave me a two hour. And fifteen minute podcast. He said why don't put it on next time you're on your peleton. Nearly passed out You know i've had people. Do you know a couple of songs and an in-between. Sorry kind of charged you that. Tell me about your songs. What are they wide. You put them on the list. I is a fela kuti water. No get enemy incredible vibes. If you're ever looking for a great saturday morning sunday morning. Music fela kuti ethiopian. Jazz artist and revolutionary as as we described the first take of this of this ramp. It's just really high energy music I grew up listening to jazz. My grandmother and And so found fella. I think randomly like a few years ago and just fell down the rabbit hole. And it's just incredible music and in he was revolutionary and uses music to sort of a rally troops around him in ethiopia and so dope. Really good and underappreciated. I think I consider myself music. I'd never heard before. And of the song i don't know twenty twenty five times since he melts. it's good stuff. I could see you said saturday sunday morning. It first date music to put that in the back but that in the back for over dinner. If you're looking to impress that guy or.
All Things Considered
Afrobeat Drummer Tony Allen Died of Heart Attack in Paris
"Drummer Tony Allen is widely hailed as one of the founders of afrobeat alongside his longtime musical partner Philip boutique the seventy nine year old Allen died Wednesday evening in Paris of heart attack NPR's honest ideas he'll guess has this appreciation sitting behind his drum kit Tony Allen used his whole body to lay out intricate poly rhythms with all four limbs Ellen didn't begin playing drums until he was eighteen years old but just months later he became a professional musician Alan met Fela Kuti in the early nineteen sixties and the Lakers Nigeria and in nineteen sixty nine the forms the legendary bands the seventy no one was injured the band's drummer he was its musical director blaring horns and soaring vocals often with highly political lyrics over driving through in nineteen seventy nine and in part because he felt he wasn't being recognized and compensated for his contributions but he continued to be a musical adventurer dipping into everything from Afro funk electronica his last album was released only last month it's a collaboration with the late south African trumpeter Hugh Masekela some of Tony Allen's own music was explicitly political but he believed in rejoicing in the small things of life too as he told NPR in two thousand ten CellaVision is everybody does we would look at it is like this every day we said it's a message he delivered through his exuberant music for more than five
Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe
New APC faction emerges, Buhari’s ally named new chairman ▷ NAIJA.NG
"The accord in jeopardy iran says it will resume its nuclear activities and there's france germany and the uk guarantee continued investment and trade the two countries agree that the nuclear deal is an important achievement on the political level the fruit of long and difficult negotiations and it's in the interest of every country in the world that this agreement is preserved maintained in the interest of international peace and security and french president emmanuel macron's in lagos for meetings with his nigerian counterparts presidents muhammadu buhari bloomberg's sophie miguel v reports and the new africa shrine the concert hall of late afrobeat musician fela kuti mccall who is the security and the fight against terrorism with larry with on wednesday meets nigerian entrepreneurs and take partner french nigeria economic forum in labour's daybreak global news twenty four hours a day on and take talk on twitter powered by more than twenty seven hundred journalists and analysts in over one hundred twenty countries i'm ben clarke this is blue book yousef thanks let's cost over the sports segment because it's been a.