There Is No End

Each track on There Is No End is a showcase for a different vocalist, including rappers like Skepta and Danny Brown. Allen’s approach to rhythm was revolutionary; he’s one of the most important... — The Wire, July 2021 More…

Release Date: 30th Apr 2021
Catalogue No: 0734547
Label: Blue Note

The Guardian

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April 2021

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1. Tony's Praeludium

2. Stumbling Down Feat. Sampa The Great

3. Crushed Grapes Feat. Lord Jah Monte Ogbon

4. Très magnifique Feat. Tsunami

5. Mau Mau Feat. Nah Eeto

6. Coonta Kinte Feat. Zelooperz

7. Rich Black Feat. Koreatown Oddity

8. One Inna Million Feat. Lava La Rue

9. Gang On Holiday (Em I Go We?) Feat. Jeremiah

10. Deer In Headlights Feat. Danny Brown

11. Hurt Your Soul Feat. Nate Boone

12. My Own Feat. Marlowe

13. Cosmosis Feat. Ben Okri + Skepta

14. There's No End

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The wisdom of Tony Allen's words was as deep as his grooves, and these two sentences, which announce the dozen songs that follow, truly capture the spirit of There is No End. Tony’s motivating concept and desire was to work with younger artists, and especially the new generation of rappers, and give them voice in a time of global turmoil when music has never been more important – not necessarily as a "weapon" for the future in the manner of Fela's violently political songs, but also as medicine to heal a fractured world today.

For all those who knew him, he was a deeply spiritual man whose life's mission was not just to create a new musical language, but to pass it on to subsequent generations. In thinking back on the incredible process of creating this album without Tony physically present to guide him, producer Vincent Taeger remarked that his friend and mentor "was a teacher without speaking... a drummer and a guardian, with a great artistic vision and that vision filled the songs even after he had left us." Ben Okri, like everyone else involved in this valedictory album, had a very similar experience, declaring in awe that "this man could have lived another 150 years and kept creating new worlds. He had become the master shaman of his art. He knew himself and his mind. He wanted the album to be open to the energies of a new generation... but like a great mathematician or scientist who found a code of for a new world, with just a few beats, he created this extraordinary canvas." Featured artists include Skepta, Sampa The Great, Lava La Rue, Danny Brown, Damon Albarn and many others

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July 2021

Each track on There Is No End is a showcase for a different vocalist, including rappers like Skepta and Danny Brown. Allen’s approach to rhythm was revolutionary; he’s one of the most important drummers in the history of funk, his light, dancing grooves somehow swinging and martial at once, and often seemed to require more than four limbs to play.

July 2021

Allen’s beats are truly that, beats — the multifaceted backing tracks from what are a variety of good raps…

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