Hamid Drake: drums, frame drum
Sylvain Kassap: eb, bb, bass and contrabass clarinets, chalumeau
CD-1 PILE
Mutual Respect
24:37
Black Walnuts
8:06
Wood Splinters
7:46
Refreshing Storm
4:48
CD-2 FACE
Heads or Tails
4:32
Everyone Holds its Breath
4:12
Downtown Riots
4:27
Sharp Light
3:37
Stubborn Old Folks
6:06
Sharp Bend
3:14
Stone s Sparks
4:00
Blasting Heat
6:30
Two Sides of the Same Coin
4:46
Deeply Affected
3:43
Emboidered Silk Scarves
5:33
Heavy Traffic
6:39
Of Course!
2:25
All compositions by Hamid Drake and Sylvain Kassap
CD-1 recorded live on February 5th 2007 by Bernard Legac and Yann Fressy for Radio France – France Musique at Studio Théatre d’Alfortville (France); the concert was part of Sons d’Hiver Festival
CD-2 recorded on February 22nd and 23rd 2013 by Jean-Marc Bouchez at Studio de la Beaune, Montreuil, France
Mixing: Sylvain Kassap
Mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’Autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France
Liner notes: Steve Dalachinsky
Photographs: Jean-Marc Bouchez
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon
When I put these CDs on I knew immediately that from the first time I had heard them together until the time of these recordings their art, their voices, their intense empathy/telepathy for one another had grown to an almost unparalleled level: two instruments in complete harmony and synchronicity. Steve Dalachinsky, excerpt of the liner notes
