Artist: Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen
Album: Inspiration Information V. 4
Genre: Afrobeat, Jazz
Release Date: Oct. 16, 2009
Label: Strut
RIYL: Fela Kuti, Nomo, Gil Scott Heron
Rating: ****
The fourth title in the Inspiration Information series, in which Strut brings together two unlikely collaborators in order to make an album. This time it's Finnish musician, Jimi Tenor, and afrobeat drumming legend, Tony Allen (of Fela Kuti fame). Together they bring about some very strange world fusion jazz. Often the album leans towards a solid afrobeat sound (as on "Sinuhe" and "Got My Egusi") but will just as quickly become extremely experimental as on the very odd but effective indeed, "Path of Wisdom" in which spoken word vocals remind one of Gil-Scott Heron and the Last Poets. The work is funky, jazzy, and mysterious. It is frequently brilliant, despite the awful, "Against the Wall", in which Jimi Tenor becomes a bit too experimental (he tries and fails to rap). Highly recommended.
- Against the Wall **
- Sinuhe *****
- Selfish Game ****
- Path To Wisdom *****
- Darker Side of Night ****
- Mama England *****
- Got My Egusi ****
- Cella's Walk ***
- Three Continents ***
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