Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen – Inspiration Information 4 (2009)

01. Against The Wall 02. Sinuhe 03. Selfish Gene 04. Path To Wisdom 05. Darker Side Of Night 06. Mama England 07. Got My Egusi 08. Cella’s Walk 09. Three Continents Inspiration Information is an ongoing experimental project that mixes and matches artists from quite different backgrounds – but with certain things in common – for a limited amount of studio time to see what they can come up with. This fourth offering is perhaps the most unlikely pairing yet, but one of the most engaging and fully realised albums in the series so far. A truly inspired choice from Strut’s Inspiration Information series of collabs has lead to this album from Finnish electronic jazz maverick Jimi Tenor and the architect of the Afrobeat rhythm, Tony Allen. After a week spent in the studio the resultant album sounds like the pair have been at this for years, with Tenor’s jazzed-up sax, keys and flute gelling perfectly around Allen’s bristling rhythm section. Tony Allen is among the world’s most acclaimed kit drummers, famed for having co-created afrobeat with Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti during the 1970s and currently enjoying a late-flowering renaissance in his seventh decade. Although he knew nothing of Jimi Tenor beforehand, Allen was one of five artists Tenor told Strut he would most like to work with when they approached him.The session was mixed down at Tenor’s studio in Fnland and Berlin, lending a distinctly dubby but vintage classic sound to the set, helping to erase any blatant time markers and make this the Electric-Afrobeat-Jazz-Fusion classic that never happened, until now! Tip! Pt.1 Pt.2

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