Folklore group, Adunni Nefretiti and Tony Allen have combined on a new track, Ire Omo.
There seem to be no stopping Tony Allen. At 75, the legendary drummer who played for the late Afrobeat singer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, released Film of Life, his 10th album, last October. A brand new single released from the album is Ire Omo.
It is a Yoruba song praising the goodness of children. The jazzy, fast-pace tempo song is one of the tracks on Tony Allen’s new album.
Adunni Nefretiti is an all-women assemblage that specialises in dishing out Afrocentric tunes.
Ire Omo infuses Allen’s percussive rhythms and horn arrangements with the female choral voices of Adunni Nefretiti.
Other tracks on the album include African Man, Boat Journey and Go Back.
In Boat Journey, Allen dissuades immigrants from crossing the Mediterranean Sea in dangerous voyages that have claimed thousands of lives.
“It’s an advice for them,” he said. “Because here that they think is paradise is not.”