Daxaar
Steve Reid Ensemble
Domino Records.
No kidding, I nearly
bought this album in 2008 on account of Kieran Hebden’s involvement alone. The
man behind Four Tet had, by this point, completed three releases with
percussion-master Steve Reid as a duo, but none of them would compare to the
full arrangements of Daxaar.
I’ll leave it to the
video below (which I love) to illustrate how and why these musicians gathered in Africa but
the results readily justify the means. Whether falling effortlessly into a
loose groove (on ‘Jiggy Jiggy’) or a freeform spiral (‘Big G’s Family’), the
septet’s casual chemistry is mind-blowing.
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