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Pasadena Weekly, CD Review >>
Reid's resume's almost too star-studded to be believed: he's played drums for Martha Reeves, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Randy Weston, Sun Ra, Miles Davis and Chaka Khan, among others. After college, Reid fulfilled mentor John Coltrane's dream of playing throughout Africa, where he learned new rhythms and instruments - and essentially re-learned music. He returns to those early inspirations here. Recorded with Russian keyboardist Boris Netsvetaev and a handful of prominent African players in Senegal, and produced by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), whose electronic flourishes vividly complement Reid's percussive explorations, "Daxaar" opens with the gentle "Welcome," featuring Isa Kouyate's melodic korah playing, then plunges into mind-bending jazz-funk fields where rhythm's king over the keyboard, trumpet, guitar, drums and percussion sounding out their sometimes dissonant themes. It's meaty music but not easy, though "Big G's Family" revels in Santana-esque groove.
-- by Bliss Bowen 02/21/08 >> go there
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