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Daxaar

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Great grooves, recorded in Dakar, seasoned with Fela-ish flavorings and just the right touch of Kieran (Four Tet) Hebden's electronica. Highly recommended and an amazing $5.99 on iTunes.

If you like African Jazz with it's all it's complex rhythms, grab this CD before it is out of print. These are "older" recordings, so the volumn of content is short, but I got a hell of a deal on what I deem as being a hard to find album and nessesary for all Jazz buffs out there looking to the past for something new. It's nicely mastered also.

Master Drummer Steve Reid and Hebdan Kiernan have found an unique thing goin' in their sound. The lovers of jazz know the hard-to-get LP"s of early Reid with their increadable beat that goes straight to the pumping of your bloodvains and gets you moving. ('Rythmatism' etc..) On this CD it will happen again!! The first number is odd.. the sound of an African welcome-song..hé? yep! They were recording in Dakar and this one slipped trough, some setting to an atmosphere, I suppose.. But once the welcome is passed (after three times you are welcomed anough and start to skip that first song) Reid and his mates go up skyhigh. That African guitarman from the welcome-song happens to be a great player with his nice riffs and feelingfull complements to the sound. Kiernan Hebdan scratches walls and stones, cracks and spatters with his electric boxes and adds a layer of voicy-sounds here and there..It all is an ungoing move.. Good rythms and I love it! They are soon coming to the BIM-huis, the Amsterdam Jazzplace-to be..and I will be there too!! Let it come Steve, and more of this please, loads!, thank you!!

Like many jazz drummers, Steve Reid has been around for years and never quite received the acclaim of the masters he has played with - Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, James Brown and Sun Ra to name a few. In this album, recorded in Senegal with an African ensemble, Reid shows the variety of influences he has felt over the years. Welcome (tk 1) is all acoustic guitars and vocals and has a light traditional African sound; Jiggy Jiggy (tk 3) is a groovy electric bass riff with flute effects floating around on top; Dabronxxar (tk 4) is similar with some Miles-Davis-y horn sections (the name is supposed to reflect the connection of Da Bronx to Dakar); the bass line for Daxaar (tk 2) sounds closer to an electronic or house track (not my genre - so I wouldn't know) but ends up jazzy, although to a less impressive effect. I'd stay away from the last two tracks - they just don't come together the same way as the others.