HomeCooking by Tony Allen
Originally released in 2002, Comet is proud to present the legendary album Homecooking, reissued with a remastered version.
Tony Allen talks about the album:
“After Black Voices and Psyco on Da Bus albums, I came back with HomeCooking which was an album filled with guests. I brought in Ty, who had remixed some of my work previously, to rap on the record, and Damon Albarn, who had already sung about me on ‘Music is my Radar’. On the first day in the studio, Damon didn’t record anything because we were enjoying ourselves too much. He came with two boxes of champagne and everyone got boozed and he decided he’d take the music back to his own studio and finish it there. That was the beginning of our friendship and since then we’ve done a lot of different things. Since the early days I’ve been trying to find things that everybody will want to listen to. I’ve always been pushing Afrobeat in different directions. Here’s another one again, another style, almost clean but still rough, raggedy and radical.’’
Tracklist
| 1. | Every Season feat. Damon Albarn | 4:07 |
| 2. | Home Cooking | 4:44 |
| 3. | Woman To Man feat. Ty | 4:48 |
| 4. | Calling feat. Mary & Norman | 4:29 |
| 5. | Don't Fight | 9:07 |
| 6. | Kindness | 5:20 |
| 7. | Jakelewah | 4:57 |
| 8. | What's Your Fashion feat. Eska | 5:09 |
| 9. | Crazy Afrobeat | 4:54 |
| 10. | Eparapo | 7:12 |
Credits
p&c 2002 Planet Woo/Comet Records
License
All rights reserved.
Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.
Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s sprawling Africa 70 combo – the much-celebrated lodestar of Nigerian Afrobeat.Allen remained a prodigiously engaged,until the very end, having created innumerable, groove-heavy coalitions