Keiran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson: Live at the South Bank – review

(Republic of Music)Drummer Steve Reid – who played with artists as varied as Martha and the Vandellas, James Brown, Dexter Gordon, Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman – died last year, but this live album from Ornette Coleman's 2009 Meltdown festival finds him with regular partner Keiran Hebden on electronics, samples and beats, and Swedish musician Mats Gustafsson on flame-throwing free-jazz sax. Whirling electronics preface anthemic low-pitched loops, spacey twitterings and helicopter-rotor noi...

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