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KIERAN HEBDEN AND STEVE REID - Tongues
| Popmatters | | Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you probably heard at least some of the praise aimed at Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid’s ongoing collaboration. If at first the match-up seemed unlikely, it has in a very short span of time become a blessedly familiar institution: two talented and uncompromising musicians brought together despite significant differences in their working idioms....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | The concept of Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid collaborating was an exciting prospect on paper. On the one hand you have Hebden – an innovator in the field of contemporary electronica, renowned for his work with Four Tet and Fridge. On the other is the drumming of Steve Reid – something of a heavyweight on the jazz scene, whose credentials include playing with Miles Davis and Sun Ra....full text |
| | NME | | Let's make a little pact here. If anything by electronica wunderkind Kieran 'Four Tet' Hebden and drumming legend Steve Reid appears on the Chris Moyles show, this writer will run down to Buckingham Palace and drop his trousers. For 'Tongues' contains some of the most uneasy listening ever. If that sounds like a criticism, it's not. Despite all the squeaks, tics, quacks and whistles, it makes total sense. It's the rhythms and sounds of everyday life: car alarms roar, a modem chirps. The duo have created a tech/jazz hybrid where Reid's freestyle riffing has Hebden triggering multiple samples. Music student? Your dissertation's right here....full text |
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