I’d rather escort a gaggle of screaming children to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese’s than listen to a 71-minute recording of three percussionists improvising. Yet my aversion to the concept dissipates when the musicians in question are Mike Dillon, Earl Harvin and Arnold Young. Universal Pulse, a 2004 session professionally recorded in Kansas City and released by the netlabel Muteant Sounds last month, is nothing like a self-indulgent drum circle. The elite percussionists wield a variety of instruments and reference rhythms from several cultures, but Universal Pulse isn’t a dreaded world music project. Some of the best bits sound like a mob of preternaturally funky children banging on pots and pans. Chuck E. Cheese’s is going to have to wait.
(Original image by Plastic Sax.)
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