Saturday, December 20, 2008

William Parker & Hamid Drake

I. Piercing the Veil (2001)

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At first you may consider this release as a bunch of kooky-crazy out-jazz because—“What?! Just drums and acoustic bass and no ‘real’ instruments!?” And then you listen and what you hear is: swing, groove, excitement, melody, and beauty. And you thought you didn’t like “free jazz”; Piercing The Veil by bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake was originally issued in 2001 and gave rise to giant amounts of praise and attention. it is considered among the finest and most accessible recordings made by “free players” in recent years.


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II. Organic Grooves - Black Cherry (2002)

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Maintaining the philosophy that accompanied PIERCING THE VEIL, This release By ORGANIC GROOVES (a collective of DJ’s and instrumentalists) is a remix of the original PIERCING THE VEIL and far from being remixed out , William Parker & Hamid Drake both participated in this release and demonstrate their mastery of the pulse and the driving force that surrounds it. All of the cuts relate one to one to the cuts on PIERCING THE VEIL.

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All Tracklist in comment section

4 comments:

  1. I. Piercing The Veil

    Tracks: @ 192 kbps

    1. Black Cherry (2:42)
    2. Chatima (6:17)
    3. Heavenly Walk (3:45)
    4. Japeru (4:41)
    5. Nur al Anwar (3:56)
    6. Piercing the Veil (2:51)
    7. Loom Song (6:35)
    8. Chaung Tzu's Dream (8:45)
    9. Bodies Die/Spirits Live (4:26)


    II. Organic Grooves - Black Cherry

    Tracks: VBR (256 kbps avg)

    1. Gold Weave (6:22)
    2. All Be(tween) (5:32)
    3. ...Will be Unbroken (6:06)
    4. Satta Pox (5:42)
    5. Chronos Splinter (7:47)
    6. Light Within Light (5:25)
    7. Tundra Roll (6:59)
    8. Know Now Go (4:34)

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  2. sweet moses! a thousand thanks, beequeen - i have searched far and wide for the organice grooves lp. to no avail.

    until now! fantastic stuff.

    thank you again, cheeers -

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  3. Glad you find it here ! I've just been introduced to this pairing

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  4. Young Man trying to Rally Support to record with William Parker
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