Lagos Paris London: Limited Red Vinyl LP Eric B. & Rakim Christmas at Sea

Christmas at Sea

their mysteries telling a new tale in an unknown but imaginable melodic language

and percolating like rushing water through the genre-fluid production work of Emmet

and yet the songs still carry the emotional weight of a Magic Radio ballad

more driven than his contemporaries and closer in spirit to the rock n roll star he could never be himself

Lagos Paris London: Limited Red Vinyl LP Eric B. & Rakim Christmas at SeaIn 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, Sbastien Tellier and Jeff Mills. Heading into a smoke filled, 70s throwback studio in Paris, Yannis had expected them to make a nostalgic Afrobeat record. Yet something very different emerged. As the pair quickly