William Parker & Hamid Drake

William Parker & Hamid Drake: Volume 1: Piercing the Veil

by Micah Holmquist
May 1, 2001

For a little over a year now AUM Fidelity has been promising the eminent release of a duo recording from Hamid Drake and William Parker. Since the two have worked together and created powerful pulses with a variety of other musicians, a duo setting provided the promise of music based primarily -although, due to the expressiveness as Drake and Parker, not exclusively-on the beat. This possibility sounded beautiful from the beginning and the extended wait for this disc, at least ...