Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid - The Exchange Session, Vol. 1

The Exchange Session, Vol. 1 is the second collaboration between Four Tet's Kieran Hebden and jazz drummer extraordinaire Steve Reid. The pair first collaborated on Reid's excellent Spirit Walk album. There was one tune on that set, "Drum Story," where Hebden and Reid played without the rest of the latter's band. Over 13-minutes in length, it was an exercise in excess: Reid's rhythmic flail would have been enough, but to add his spoken poetry and Hebden's shrill knob twiddling was sonic torture. Read More