| Drake, Hamid & Jesse Stewart / Timelines |
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| Album: | Timelines | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Drake, Hamid & Jesse Stewart | Added: | Nov 2013 | |
| Label: | Art Stew Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-11-14 | Pull Date: | 2014-01-24 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 26 | Jan 19 | Jan 12 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 23, 2014: | Rebop D.U.O. (Do Unto Others) | 4. | Jan 16, 2014: | The Sunset Life Lotus | |
| 2. | Jan 19, 2014: | The Sunset Life D.U.O. (Do Unto Others) | 5. | Jan 10, 2014: | Funk to Folk Low Blow | |
| 3. | Jan 17, 2014: | No Cover, No Minimum D.U.O. (Do Unto Others) | 6. | Dec 28, 2013: | Music Casserole Different Hats |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2013-11-12 | ||
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“World renowned” drummers Drake and Stewart collaborate on 8 tracks of percussion only (mostly) compositions. Some sound like you might expect for the platform: drum solos. But others are highly textured mosaics of percussive creativity, spellbinding. A few of these would fit right in an Experimental noise set, others gladly in a World set, while the rest in Jazz. Drake has a long resume, having played with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock. His work with William Parker is quite notable (some of my personal favorite work of bassist Parker’s, who I am a huge fan of). But he has also worked with world musicians, including Reggae. His roots in Afro-Cuban music come through heavily in the lovely tribalism that permeates all of this CD. Looking forward to playing this amongst a doom metal set. 1) (7:22) starts chill, then tom tom hand rolls, spiritual sounding vocal chanting enters and dominates 2) (11:59) conga type rolls kick into total tribal overdrive, funky, full on rhythmic killer stuff w/ some high hat and full drums entering slowly into the mix 3) (6:01) cymbal scrapes with tom tom, builds more percussively and emphatically 4) (6:01) despite beginning with a flute like sound, almost entirely composed on the high hat, with some ride cymbal in there, intense 5) (4:00) low harmonica (?) single note melody with tom toms 6) (8:12) starts off like a full on drum solo, then concentrated on tom toms, then back to drum solo’ness 7) (3:23) african musical drum tones, melodic 8) (5:17) super cool drone over which percussion all over the kit, hardware included, ensues | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Lotus | 5. | Low Blow | |||
| 2. | D.U.O. (Do Unto Others) | 6. | Drum Nerds | |||
| 3. | Waves | 7. | Joyful Noise | |||
| 4. | Different Hats | 8. | Heavy Metal |