In 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 established an intuitive telepathy, the music germinated from jams and loops, its varied touchpoints – rock, funk, jazz, dub and more – were complemented by a unique atmosphere of two cultures and creatives colliding, their expression liberated by making music in and for the moment itself.

Disc 1
1. Walk Through Fire – Yannis & the Yaw
2. Rain Can’t Reach Us – Yannis & the Yaw
3. Night Green, Heavy Love – Yannis & the Yaw
4. Under the Strikes – Yannis & the Yaw
5. Clementine – Yannis & the Yaw