A masterful fountain of melodic ideas, intriguing rhythms, and exceptional technical skill from the duo of Hamid Drake on drums and frame drum, and Sylvain Kassap on clarinets and chalumeau, recording live at the France Musique at Studio Theatre dÕAlfortville and in the studio.
Format: 2 CDs Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: France Packaging: Digipack - 4 panel CD 1 recorded live at the France Musique at Studio Theatre dÕAlfortville, France, for Radio France on February 5th, 2007, by Bernard Legac and Yann Fressy.
CD-2 recorded at Studio de la Beaune, in Montreuil, France, on February 22nd and 23rd, 2013, by Jean-Marc Bouchez/
"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 a n almost unparalleled level: two instruments in complete harmony and synchronicity."-Steve Dalachinsky, excerpt of the liner notes
"The chalumeau is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (i.e. not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth."-Wikipedia