{{Infobox album | name = Singing Drums | type = Album | artist = the Pierre Favre Ensemble | cover = Singing Drums.jpg | alt = | released = 1 November 1984<ref>[https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/143038751099 Singing Drums - Pierre Favre Ensemble] - ECM Records</ref> | recorded = May 27–28, 1984<ref name="ECM discography" /> | venue = | studio = Mohren, Willisau | genre = {{flatlist| *Jazz *avant-garde jazz<ref name="Sutro">{{cite book|title=Jazz for Dummies|page=333|author=Dirk Sutro|isbn=0471768448|year=2006}}</ref> *free jazz<ref name="Sutro" />}} | length = 40:59 | label = ECM 1274 | producer = Manfred Eicher | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Fleuve | next_year = 2006 | chronology = Pierre Favre }}
'''''Singing Drums''''' is an album by the Pierre Favre Ensemble recorded over two days in May 1984 and released on ECM November that same year. The all-percussion quartet features Paul Motian, Fredy Studer, and Nana Vasconcelos.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1200/1274.php ECM discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403131332/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1200/1274.php |date=2014-04-03 }} accessed October 21, 2011</ref>
==Reception== The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars stating "For special tastes".<ref name="Allmusic">Nastos, M. G. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/singing-drums-r138590 Allmusic Review] accessed October 21, 2011</ref>
''Modern Drummer'' called the pieces on the album "a bunch of hypnotic, surprisingly melodic pieces for four rhythmatists."<ref>{{cite journal |date=1998 |title=Reviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dkJAQAAMAAJ&q=Souffles+Pierre+Favre |journal=Modern Drummer |volume=22 |issue=7–12 |accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=475}}</ref> }}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Pierre Favre except as indicated'' # "Rain Forest" - 5:14 # "Carneval of the Four" - 6:11 # "Metal Birds" - 5:22 # "Edge of the Wing" - 4:17 # "Prism" - 8:14 # "Frog Songs" - 6:07 # "Beyond the Blue" - 5:48
==Personnel==
=== Pierre Favre Ensemble === *Pierre Favre – drums, gongs, crotales, cymbals *Paul Motian – drums, gongs, crotales, calebasses, rodbrushes *Fredy Studer – drums, gongs, cymbals *Nana Vasconcelos – berimbau, voice, tympani, conga, water pot, shakers, bells
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Category:ECM Records albums Category:Pierre Favre (musician) albums Category:1984 albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher