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Electronica
Release Date: 03/20/2007
Tongues is not
The Exchange Session, Vol. 3, nor is it a series of outtakes or discarded tracks from those sessions packaged simply to lure in those looking for more --
anything more -- from the deft
electronics-and-percussion collaboration. (Although its release, in one sense, is the result of
Kieran Hebden and
Steve Reid's success; it was recorded six months after their first two dates, a few weeks before the first even came out.) Subsequent to a round of touring, where they played before all manner of
jazz boffins and
electronic heads, the two reconvened and recorded something that reflected the demands of a live audience. Instead of three long tracks,
Tongues consists of ten short tracks. Thus, it gains a sense of immediacy, although listeners shouldn't confuse immediacy with simplicity;
Hebden and
Reid's music is as full of depth and ideas as before, whether driving and droning (
"Rhythm Dance") or haunted (a cover of, yes,
"Greensleeves").
~John Bush, All Music Guide
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