Behind Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 band from 1968 to 1979 was Tony Allen, one of the greatest living drummers to ever grace the earth. “Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat,” Kuti once said. Allen defined the rhythms of an entire genre and influenced the music of American groups like Parliament-Funkadelic. Today, he lives in Paris and records music with musicians like Sébastien Tellier and Damon Albarn’s super-group The Good, the Bad and the Queen. In celebration of the 10th anniversary reissue of Black Voices, Comet Records presents a short documentary Black Voices Are Everywhere, a look behind the scenes of Tony Allen’s music, featuring interviews with Michael “Clip” Payne (of Parliament) and the Afrobeat drummer himself.

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