Foals’ Yannis Philippakis shares ‘Walk Through Fire’ video and announces UK and European shows with The Yaw

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Foals‘ Yannis Philippakis has shared the first music video from his new project, Yannis & The Yaw, featuring the late Tony Allen – watch the visuals for ‘Walk Through Fire’ below.Last night (May 2), Philippakis released the music video for ‘Walk Through Fire’, the first track to be released from Yannis & The Yaw’s upcoming EP, ‘Lagos Paris London (feat.

Tony Allen)’ – the record is due out on August 30 via Transgressive Records. Pre-save the EP here.The music video for ‘Walk Through Fire’ is the result of an art installation held in April in London, for which 75 CRT television sets were set up at a shopfront, with each screen showcasing different themes that inspired the EP, as well as archival footage of Tony Allen.Besides releasing the music video for ‘Walk Through Fire’, Yannis & The Yaw have also revealed an interactive website, through which fans can create their own versions of the visual as their webcams imparting them into the wall of retro TVs.‘Walk Through Fire’ isn’t the only offering that Yannis & The Yaw have gifted fans; they’ve also announced a small collection of tour dates across Europe and London this September in support of their upcoming EP.Yannis Philippakis said of the shows via a press statement: “The shows will be free-flowing and on the edge, improvised passages will meet with hard-worn grooves.

It will feature some collaborators from the project and other musicians in our extended family.“It will be an emotional release to finally play these songs live: bittersweet and poignant without Tony here, but important to allow the music to be played live, to give it oxygen and to release the music properly into the world.