“I don’t know why this track is called Slow Bones,” reveals Tony. “Hugh came up with all the song titles while we were recording in 2010, and we’ve left them exactly as he wrote them down. It’s amazing to think that it was 10 years ago. But everything eventually appears at the right time, for a reason.”
‘Rejoice’ Track Listing: Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O’Galajani)Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, Allen, the Nigerian master drummer widely hailed as the co-founder of Afrobeat (and long-time member of alt-rock supergroup The Good The Bad & The Queen),
- Agbada Bougou
- Coconut Jam
- Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)
- Slow Bones
- Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)
- Obama Shuffle Strut Blues
- We’ve Landed
record their encounter. The unfinished
sessions, consisting of all original compositions by the pair, lay in archive
until after Masekela passed away in 2018. With renewed resolution, Tony Allen
and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Hugh’s estate, unearthed
the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019 at the same
London studio where the original sessions had taken place.
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