NYC: Damon Albarn Chops Up Lincoln Center
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Now that we’re a little closer to July and everyone’s calendars are a little easier to manage, we’ve decided to throw a doozie into your Montauk getaway plans. You’ll have to stay in the city the weekend after the 4th of July because former FADER cover man Damon Albarn is bringing a whole bunch of incredible musicians together on July 12th for a “chop up” at the Lincoln Center. The night is officially a performance by the Honest Jon’s Revue, a collective made up of artists from that label, with Albarn as the ringleader. It will include Afel Bocoum and Lobi Traore, who were both on Albarn’s Mali Music, Kokanko Sata, Simone White, Candi Staton, Victoria Williams, the indestructible Tony Allen and FADER favorites Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. It’s a one-night-only show, and that night will be thereafter known as The Night Of Bananas. Believe us. You can still get tickets here, and stay tuned as we hope to have some special coverage.
Freeload: Tony Allen’s Lagos Shake
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A little over a year ago, we watched Tony Allen effortlessly chop it up with The Good, The Bad & The Queen at the Levi’s/FADER Fort in Texas, wearing his shades and paying little mind to the task at hand. GBQ songs are great, but it’s not like they’re percussive workouts or anything. But surely a bunch of people heard them and made the effort to check for Tony’s epic back catalogue, and now another reason to pay him his dues is out. Lagos Shake: A Tony Allen Chop Up compiles a bunch of FADER favorites’ recent 12″ remixes of Allen jams including Bonde do Role, Carl Craig, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Diplo, Son Palenque De Colombia, et al. We got Diplo’s “Fuji Ouija” and Son Palenque De Colombia’s “Samba” for you below, but check samples of the rest and buy the album at Honest Jon’s.
Download: Diplo, “Fuji Ouija”
Son Palenque de Colombia, “Samba”
