Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART With eremite records Brothers Together by Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen by Alan Silva

This is the third time Philadephia-born multi-instrumentalist Sabir Mateen has teamed up with a drummer on Eremite: after Tom Bruno (on, Getting Away With Murder, recorded in New York's grand central station in 1995) and Sunny Murray (1998's We Are Not at the Opera), Chicago's Hamid Drake takes to the kit in this studio session recorded in October 2000, the day after the duo played at Eremite's fifth birthday bash. With Drake's one-man percussion orchestra behind him, Mateen can let ideas fly free without any need to blow himself to pieces. On "Brother's Together", Drake keeps up a steady 84-bpm pulse that's so tight and funky you half expect Bootsy Collins to come crashing in at any moment. Things finally wind down to a slow ballad tempo at the twenty minute mark, Mateen's alto rounding off the piece with glorious arching melody lines worthy of Jimmy Lyons. Behind Drake's quietly intricate hand drumming on "Of Mind & Spirit", Mateen can explore the dark chalumeau range of his clarinet, while on "Knowing Oneself" his alto clarinet takes off - the old Muhammad Ali metaphor "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" has rarely seemed more apposite. On the final "New Life Dance", his flute darts playfully about... more credits released October 2, 2018 Drake: frame & trap drums Mateen: clarinets, flute, alto & tenor saxophones, vocals 23 October 2000, PBS Studios, Westwood, MA producer: Michael Ehlers engineer: Peter Kontrimas photography: Michael Wilderman

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