After New Cool Collective (NCC) completed a successful afrobeat tour with Tony Allen at the end of 2004, they invited this former drummer of Fela Kuti for a session. They were supposed to record two songs for Trippin '. However, the enthusiasm was so great that six hours later enough material for an entire CD was on the shelf. Add to that the songs they already had and the result is a dazzling double
… CD. The first CD is traditionally filled with super swinging Latin and soul jazz and shows that NCC keeps jazz young thanks to its boundless energy. The second CD is devoted entirely to their recordings with Tony Allen. The five songs with an average playing time of ten minutes, according to the rules of the afrobeat, as if the gentlemen of the NCC have lived in Nigeria all their lives. Subtle rhythms with a taut, subcutaneous tension arc. (AD)more
