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"This release is an interesting perspective on Tony’s writing. It’s definitely a different project than Tony’s worked on before. It’s the heaviest stuff he was involved in. For me, it’s obviously the most inspired by jazz and Afrobeat. For people coming to the EP, it’s an interesting prism that we were both put in and thrust together to write this.

Had I not gone to Paris that day and further along, had we not kept it up and had we not finished it, through these chance meetings and happenings, you can end up with something that’s precious and is permanent. When so much of life is impermanent, that’s a really important lesson that I learned. I feel protective over the record. It’s a treasure and a document of two people who came together. He was in his seventies when I met him, and I was in my twenties. There’s something amazing about two people from different cultures and backgrounds and generations being thrust together unknowingly without knowing each other and through music very quickly bonding and forming and creating something that will last.”

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"It was weird, I feel like in some ways, I've been writing riffs with Tony [Allen]'s rhythms in mind y'know, subconsciously all my life. So for that to finally come to fruition, it's an honour."

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Yannis in Olympos, Karpathos by George Tatakis | 03.10.2022

"I had, however, already met Yannis through common acquaintances and so I asked whether he would be willing for me to take some pictures of him in the village, which he willingly agreed to. After the shoot, we returned to the Parthenon, the local café that we frequented on the main square of Olympos, where Yiannis’ father happened to be with his group of friends, where he was playing the lyra and singing mantinades. Yiannis sat with his father and sang. I took my last photo, which I think is my favourite."

photos are featured in the photographer's book Olympos [link]