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Steve Reid Ensemble, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

Veteran drummer Steve Reid's ongoing collaboration with folktronicist Kieran Hebden, aka Fourtet, put Reid squarely back in the front-line with three appealingly meandering sets of 21st-century fusion. This has given Reid's own ensemble a higher profile, and a chance with last year's Daxaar album, recorded in Senegal, to get back into the groove on a much wider platform. Only Reid, Hebden and Russian keyboardist and Daxaar's musical director Boris Netsvetaev survive the album in this thrilling show, which exposes an even fresher line-up that's not just pan-global, but pan-generational.

Veteran drummer Steve Reid's ongoing collaboration with folktronicist Kieran Hebden, aka Fourtet, put Reid squarely back in the front-line with three appealingly meandering sets of 21st-century fusion.