Yannis And The Yaw by Kit Monteith
Yannis And The Yaw marks a new creative project for Philippakis.
Yannis Philippakis has unveiled his Lagos Paris London collaborative EP with the late Tony Allen.
To be released under the banner Yannis And The Yaw on August 30th, the five tracks set to feature on the EP date to original studio sessions with Allen, Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle and Ludovic Bruni all the way back in 2016, with Walk Through Fire the first to finally see the light of day.
“There was an imperative to finish it in a way that I had never felt with another record,” the Foals frontman has said.
“There was a deep duty to do it, to finish it as well as possible, and to pay respect to him by getting it out there. Going through some of the drum takes was a moving experience because those recordings were some of the last pieces of music he ever worked on.”
There’s an eternal quality to these drum tracks, and you feel a continuity of his life and energy through them. He wanted people to hear this, and it’s good to be able to do it for him – but of course it’s slightly bittersweet.
