Tony Allen
Secret Agent

As the co-creator with Fela Kuti of the Afrobeat style that emerged from Nigeria in 1970, drummer and arranger Tony Allen is a deservedly legendary fi...

At nearly seventy years of age, Tony Allen is one of the fewlinks to the sound of Afrobeat's past and its future. The Lagos,Nigeria-born drummer was a...

The sticker affixed to the front of Tony Allen's new album says it all, really. "Perhaps the greatest drummer ever," reads a quote from Brian Eno; "Wi...

Fela Kuti?s sound, as is well known, owed much of its driving beat to two drummers, Pax Nicholas on percussion and African drums, and Tony Allen on dr...

After being on the cutting edge of Afrobeat ever since leaving Fela's band in 1979 ? some would say he took Fela's cutting edge with him ? drummer Ton...

Tony Allen’s art is that of the long tease. We’re a full minute into the first track of this album before he decides to open his mouth, an...

After a rewarding dalliance with British hip-hop on his previous album, Home Cooking, Fela Kuti’s former drummer returns to classic Afrobeat with the ...

Secret Agent finds the man regarded by Brian Eno as "perhaps the greatest drummer ever" back on the Afrobeat territory he helped establish nearly half...

‘Mr Afrobeat’ returns, this time on the world’s leading world music label. Like his last album Lagos No Shaking, this was recorded in Allen’s old stom...

Allen was the principal wheel in the engine room of Fela Kuti's monumental Afrobeat, a driving yet relaxed kit-drummer for the ages. British pop fans ...