STEVE REID ENSEMBLE (FEAT. KIERAN HEBDEN) - Spirit Walk - 2LP - Cyan Vinyl [RSD2021-JUL 17]

RELEASE DATE: July 17th, 2021
FORMAT: 2LP
LABEL: Soul Jazz Records
CAT NO.: SJRLP484
BARCODE: 5026328004846

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. Lugano (7.02)
2. Bridget (5.49)
3. For Coltrane (8.03)

Side B
1. Blind Tom (1.23)
2. Which One? (6:43)
3. Lions Of Juda (8.26)

Side C
1. It Cannot Be True (6.04)
2. Unity (9:10)

Side D
1. Drum Story (14.29)

STEVE REID ENSEMBLE
(FEATURING KIERAN HEBDEN)
– Spirit Walk

2LP – Limited Edition Cyan Coloured Vinyl
(*Only 750 copies pressed. Includes download code.)
[RSD2021-JUL 17]

All ‘RSD Drop 2’ titles will be available for purchase in store from 8am Saturday, July 17th. Online sales for remaining stock will start at 6pm, 17th July.

This album is released as a special one-off exclusive blue double vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2021.

Out of print for nearly 15 years, this album was recorded at the start of the long-relationship between Kieran Hebden and drummer extraordinaire Steve Reid. Soul Jazz Records had begun to release Reid’s music in 2000, reissuing much of his early catalogue of radical, deep and spiritual jazz music from the 1970s when an encounter between electronic music pioneer Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid effectively launched a new career for jazz drummer Reid – a man steeped in history having played with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Motown and much more. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid released a set of ground-breaking albums together in London, New York and Africa (including four on Domino Records) and continued to work together up until Steve Reid died in 2010. This album launched the start of this new connection between the two very different and yet connected artists – a mixture of electronic and jazz sensibilities like no other. The album ‘Spirit Walk’ contains an updated version of Reid’s seminal ‘Lions of Judah’ (originally released on Reid’s classic ’Nova in 1976), ‘For Coltrane’, and the stunning and epic 15-min ‘Drum Song’.

The album comes with complete original artwork, including inner sleeves (featuring an interview with Steve Reid by Gilles Peterson).

See below for tracklisting…