Tony Allen

Blue Note Records announced There Is No End, a posthumous album from the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, who died last year at the age of 79. Featuring guest rappers and singers including Sampa The Great, Danny Brown, Lava La Rue, Zelooperz, JeremIah Jae,Tsunami811, Koreatown Oddity, Marlowe,Nah Eeto and Nate Bone; the new full-length will be released on April 30, 2021, the one year anniversary of Allen’s death. First track “Cosmosis (ft. Skepta & Ben Okri) is out March 12th "I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends." The wisdom of Tony Allen's words was as deep as his grooves, and these two sentences truly capture the spirit of There is No End. Tony’s motivating concept and desire was to work with younger artists, especially the new generation of rappers, and to give them a 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 a medicine to heal a fractured world today.