- 2024-08-30
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MUSIC
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Yannis & The Yaw Premieres New Song “Clementine” on BBC Radio 1
British rock band Foals frontman, Yannis Philippakis' solo project Yannis & The Yaw releases his upcoming EP “Lagos Paris London” on August 30, 2024.
From the EP, he premiered the third and the final pre-release single called “Clementine” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The EP “Lagos Paris London” is a collaborative EP with Nigerian-French drummer Tony Allen. But “Clementine” is the only track recorded without Tony Allen.
The track was written by Ludovic Bruni, Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle, and Yannis Philippakis. Produced by Vincent Taurelle, Yannis Philippakis.
Yannis Philippakis told Jack Saunders about the song, “To start off, it was basically written as part of the rest of the EP, but this is the only track where Tony Allen is not drumming on it. Because he didn't rock up to the studio that day. I think he'd had a late night. So we were just kind of sitting around, and it was deep into winter in Paris. And I think we just started jamming. We were craving the idea of summer, looking for that, like last little like ray of sunshine and then this track kind of came out from that. And the lyric about Clementine was there right from the beginning. And it just felt like we had bottled this essence of a French 60s, sun bleached slice of perfect weather.”- Sadly, Tony Allen died at 79 in Paris before releasing the EP.
Yannis Philippakis said of working with Tony Allen, “I remember that moment of being in the room with a musical hero of mine who was good 50 years my senior, he had existed in my mind as this like mythical musician for a long time. And so just being in the room with him initially was something incredible, but then seeing him light up when I started singing, and realizing that we were both mutually excited by this project. And that doing something as natural as just singing or as bringing an idea that you may have had can connect across years and across cultures and across times and experiences, and then create something together that is like this amazing nugget of chemistry, which is what this all became, just like. I'll never forget that.” -
Photo by Kit Monteith - source : BBC Radio 1
