Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen remembered and Alma Mahler's life, loves and lieder - a podcast by ABC Radio

Brian Eno called Tony Allen one the greatest drummers who ever lived; Flea and Damon Albarn are adoring collaborators but probably Tony Allen's most famous musical period was putting the polyrhythms into Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat band Africa 70. Tony Allen died at the end of April and his biographer and Yale professor of music Michael Veal uncovers the long and diverse drumming world of this Nigerian legend.

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