William Parker & Hamid Drake – Piercing The Veil

Piercing The Veil by William Parker & Hamid Drake Piercing The Veil by William Parker & Hamid Drake  [AUM017] Hamid Drake: drums, tablas, frame drum, bells William Parker: bass, balafon, shakuhachi, bombard, dumbek, slit drum When William Parker & Hamid Drake first met (in Peter Brötzmann’s Die Like A Dog quartet), it was destiny. Two giants; cloth cut from the same patch of stars. One of the peerless rhythm sections in music. It was in the Spring of 2000 that this extraordinary relationship was made lock-tight and eternal; when they made manifest their two-man "rhythm-and-ritual orchestra." This studio session and their first communion concert two days previous took place in April. The O'Neal's Porch album, which introduced William Parker's tremendous new quartet, was recorded in May. Here/hear then, a perfect union of infinite rhythm and song from many worlds.. "A common myth says that holy men must speak in tongues. Take a tour here, and you'll learn that th