- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
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Naysayers may argue that none of the tracks needs to be as long as they are (at 16 minutes and two seconds, We Dream Free is the shortest) but sounds as subtle as these need room to spread out just as a fine wine needs room to breathe.
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It is as if both musicians have tapped into a single communal memory of music, discovering it as they play with each flurry of notes and rhythms.
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UncutThe stumbling spontaneity is refreshing. [Jul 2006, p.95]
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UrbAs strong as volume one, Hebden and Reid's finale to their improvised sessions is worthy of an encore. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.124]
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The work would not have been out of place on a more skeletal version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
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These are talented musicians-- and Vol. 2 is superior to the first disc-- but that development hardly merits owning two full albums of indifferent collaboration.
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The Exchange Session’s second volume retreads the same path that Hebden and Reid took earlier, but they truly go places this time around.
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Free jazz fiends and fans of the first volume will find plenty to love here.