Brand-new Franco-American quintet Nova Fellowship is revisiting the repertoire of legendary drummer Steve Reid, focussing on his collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet).

Despite keeping to himself, New York drummer Steve Reid (1944-2010) was a key figure on the US music scene, leaving his mark on the history of Great Black Music as well as free jazz, funk, and rock. His many collabs included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Albert Ayler, and Mal Waldron, not forgetting Marvin Gaye and Dionne Warwick. The end of his career was shaped by his meeting with English musician Kieran Hebden, the emblematic electro genius working under the name Four Tet, with whom he recorded four hybrid, experimental, and spiritual albums between 2006 and 2010. It is this repertoire that Nova Fellowship is sharing today – alongside some of Steve Reid’s classics. Led by drummer Zach Morrow, the quintet brings together musicians eager for all forms of exploration.