YANNIS & THE YAW FEAT. TONY ALLEN - Lagos Paris London HORSLIPS LP - Limited Rocktober 2023

LP - Limited Rocktober 2023 Edition on 140g Clear Vinyl

rusted hubcaps and blistering our fingers through non stop recording

ambient pastorals and droning soundtrack pieces

Backing him on the date were both his quartet featuring pianist Russ Freeman and an expanded ensemble with Bud Shank on flute and strings arranged by Frank Campo

are at once specific and universal

YANNIS & THE YAW FEAT. TONY ALLEN - Lagos Paris London HORSLIPS LP - Limited Rocktober 2023CD EP Digisleeve. In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, Sbastien Tellier and Jeff Mills. Heading into a smoke filled, 70s throwback studio in Paris, Yannis had expected them to make a nostalgic Afrobeat record. Yet something very different emerged. As