Tony Allen - Cosmosis (Official Clip) ft. Skepta, Ben Okri

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, which announce the dozen songs that follow, truly capture the spirit of There is No End. Tony’s motivating concept and desire was to work with younger artists, and especially the new generation of rappers, and give them 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 medicine to heal a fractured world today. For all those who knew him, he was a deeply spiritual man whose life’s mission was not just to create a new musical language, but to pass it on to subsequent generations. In thinking back on the incredible process of creating this album without Tony physically present to guide him, producer Vincent Taeger remarked that his friend and mentor ““was a teacher without speaking... a drumm