"5&1" has another good groove, though it starts out very loungey, a double-tempo drum kicks in and the piano comes alive. I liked the Last Poets & Gil Scott Heron in my youth, but political rants with a smooth jazz background seem anachronistic to me now. "Freedom Groove" and "Crystallize" with female rapper Yugen Blakrock don't do it for me.
Track 3, "Shepherd Song," is back on track. The searing sax solo in track two is stellar. I believe the big horn section is from Antibalas. Diaspora albums don't always work well but this one congeals around the rhythm with the jazz horn section fully up to the mark. The opening cut "Future Toyi Toyi" should be enough to sell you on this, however it quickly falls off with the wimpy lyric refrain of track two "International Love Affair," despite the best efforts of Allen and the baritone and tenor sax to keep the beat in the pocket. The project began when Coldcut (producers Matt Black and Jonathan More) from the UK visited the Keleketla! Library in South Africa, a media arts center, and agreed to work with local talent, including jazz musician Sibusile Xaba and percussionist Thabang Tabane, son of the legendary Philip Tabane, founder of Malombo. This group is a London-based collective that encompasses musicians from Lagos but also a large cadre of Johannesburghers. SAGE Publications, Inc.For years people talked about Fela Kuti as creator of the new musical form called Afrobeat, but listen to this latest (though not final) recording of Afrobeat and you can hear what makes it groove: it's the drumming of Tony Allen (who died in April 2020). Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol.
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