Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Steve Reid Ensemble
Daxaar
(Domino, 2007)
Drum wizard goes to Africa, gets on the good foot.
When Steve Reid disembarked by boat for Daxaar's studio summit in the Senegalese capital Dakar, his drums fell into the water. Characteristically, the man whose rhythm-supplying CV included such worldshakers as James Brown, Fela Kuti and Miles Davis didn't miss a beat. In town to record with his "musical soul mate" Kieran Hebden of Four Tet and local players including guitarist Jimi Mbaye from Youssou N'Dour's band and trumpeter Roger Ongolo, proceedings open with a mellifluous welcome on voice and kora before the beats begin to roll. The subtly twisting Afro-jazz jams that follow - replete with Hebden's paint-splats of robo burble and U-Boat noise - are like conversations between the African continent and urban America; for example, poised between looseness and precision, Big G's Family cross-hatches the rhythms on a Melting Pot-era Booker T & The M.G's-like organ groove, while the malarial, 10 minute Dabronxxar comes on like a spy theme before Bitches Brew'ing it up into a sustained state of enjoyable suspense. Throughout, the drummer presides with ego-less playing, directing the musicians on to Exist In The Moment and make music that "sounds damned good" (see 3.17). Reid, who died in April, was 62 when he made this - an example to forward thinkers planning on not going quietly if ever there was one.
Clive Prior
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:40 PM GMT 18/06/2010
Further Listening
Steve Reid Ensemble - Spirits Walk (Soul Jazz, 2005)
Can – Tago Mago (UA, 1971)
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