Another fantastic posthumous release by the legendary drummer and Afrobeat pioneer from a forthcoming album, There is No End, here featuring the writer Ben Okri and rapper Skepta on vocals. Tony laid down the drum tracks and more, ready for other artists to add their input. Ben Okri writes: “Tony Allen could have lived another 150 years and kept creating new worlds. He had become the master shaman of his art. He knew himself and his mind. He wanted the album to be open to the energies of a new generation... but like a great mathematician or scientist who found a code of for a new world, with just a few beats, he created this extraordinary canvas." Additional vocals on this track are by Laetitia Bourgeois, with longtime collaborator Damon Albarn on bass, guitar and keyboards. Out on Decca.
[Tony Allen]
Cosmosis
[Verse 1: Ben Okri]
Let’s talk about the science
Of how things break
How the heart breaks
How the age founders, shatters
With no one listening
How the mind quakes
How we lose all that matters
Oh, the music of the bones
Music of siege and white stones
Let’s talk about the art
Of how things break
Things that were hard to make
Things like peace, and love, and need
How the nations shape
How the good is lost to the fake
Oh, brief change by osmosis
Change the music of Cosmosis
[Chorus: Skepta]
Yeah
She was looking for a prince
Oh now she’s hitting the road
She tried kissing a frog
Oh now she’s licking a toad
Spiritual girl, she’s got a story to tell
She taught me to love myself, forget everyone else
Forget and I forgive, I don’t give it attention
How you feel about me?
Uh, Its just a reflection
I’m out of my ego, I’m back into space
Hold me in your arms and feel the connection
[Bridge: Tony Allen]
Cosmosis
Cosmosis
Yeah, man
[Verse 2: Ben Okri]
The present moment began with fire
And still it burns
The present moment began with fire
And still it burns
It began with water
And still it drowns, still they drown
It began with air, see how the bombs fall
On houses made of sand
Dreams made of flesh
[Chorus: Skepta]
She was looking for a prince
Oh now she’s hitting the road
She tried kissing a frog
Oh now she’s licking a toad
Spiritual girl, she’s got a story to tell
She taught me to love myself, forget everyone else
Forget and I forgive, I don’t give it attention
How you feel about me?
Uh, Its just a reflection
I’m out of my ego, I’m back into space
Hold me in your arms and feel the connection
[Outro: Tony Allen]
Yeah
The world’s going to change because Cosmosis
Check it out
When will this story of our nation
Change and shine?
Cosmosis
Cosmosis
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