Foals‘ Yannis Philippakis and the late Tony Allen will finally arrive next week.Philippakis first spoke about to NME about working on music with Allen back in in 2017.
The pioneering Afrobeat drummer, who played with both Fela Kuti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, died in 2020 and the music had been in development for some time ahead of his passing.“I’ve been writing with Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer,” Philippakis told NME in 2017. “I started doing some tracks with him last year and then I was on tour.
So I went back to finish them in Paris. So he’s writing a record and hopefully some of the tracks we’ve been working on will be on that album.”Now, in a recent Instagram post – which you can see here – Philippakis shared that the new music would be arriving next week.“Introducing…Yannis & The Yaw.
New music featuring Tony Allen coming next week,” Philippakis wrote on Instagram, sharing a link to the music’s website here.Speaking to NME in 2017 about what it was like to work with Allen, Philippakis said: “It was awesome.
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