Kip Hanrahan
Shadow Nights, Vol. 2
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AMG Review of Shadow Nights, Vol. 2
Peter Nappi
All Music GuideThe bad news: Kip Hanrahan uses volume three of his adaptation of the Thousand and One Nights as a statement on economic powerlessness, reducing his narrative voices to rote Noam Chomsky sound-alikes. The good news: Shadow Nights, Vol. 2 features one of the hottest percussion sections since Max Roach and Gene Krupa recorded together. Particularly on "Commerce" (be warned, the title is typical of this album), drummers Negro Horacio Hernandez, Roby Ameen, and J.T. Lewis play together with an extraordinary mix of precision and abandon. Shadow Nights, Vol. 2 is mostly for Kip Hanrahan diehards -- but don't miss those drums.
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