Parker, William & Hamid Drake / Summer Snow
Album: Summer Snow   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Parker, William & Hamid Drake   Added:Jun 2007
Label:Aum Fidelity  

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Add Date: 2007-06-10 Pull Date: 2007-08-12 Charts: Jazz
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Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2007-06-09
WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE: Summer Snow
AUM Fidelity, 2007

WORLD/JAZZ – Excellent series of hypnotic improvised duets, with each player deploying a small arsenal of instruments from around the world for a fused Afro-Asian sound. Tabla, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and doson’ngoni (an African string bass) are the primary voices. Great stuff, recommended for both jazz and world music shows.

All great! Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

2. 7:30 – lively, shifting patterns for tabla & doson’ngoni.
3. 3:03 – steady midtempo, with frame drum below and shakuhachi above
4. 9:22 – staccato tabla dialogue w/dumbek(?), shakuhachi flutters, second half picks up an Indonesian gamelan rhythm + talking drum
5. 3:49 – atmospheric: slow, mysterious shakuhachi and low gongs
6. 3:31 – stark atmosphere: quiet gongs, creepy water bowls, lots of space
7. 1:38 – slowly slashing shakuhachi and gong/metallic sounds
8. 3:53 – jazz bass & drum kit: very cool riffing, walking, dialogue
9. 11:33 – jazz bass & drums, moving out from rockin’ backbeats into free-jazz jumbles, tribal patterns, some bluesy walkin.’ A bit long, but good.
10. 7:18 – doson’ngoni & frame drum, an exotic but folksy walking rhythm.

[tracks 1 & 11 are fragments]

[ Fo ] 9-Jun-07

Track Listing
1. Awake, Arise   6. Edge Of Everything
2. Sky   7. Traces Of The Beloved
3. Earth   8. Anaya Dancing
4. Pahos   9. Konte
5. Sifting The Dust   10. Faces
  11. Hadra