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BURNT FRIEDMAN & JAKI LIEBEZEIT
Secret Rhythms (NON010) Nonplace 2001 10 Tracks. 54mins54secs. Buy this CD on line now |
Praised and admired for his unique cyclical beats, Liebezeit offers here a rather subdued performance compared to some of his previous work. Always remaining slightly in the background of Friedman’s deceptively simple melodies, he however injects complex rhythmic structures on each track, providing a healthy balance to Burnt’s Latin inspired electronic composition. The mood on Secret Rhythms is definitely laid back and hypnotic, ranging from languorous dub style moments (Rastafahndung) to exotic impressions (Gulli Verreisen). If the work is by essence electronic, the result has the intensity of live music, establishing an interesting parallel with Flanger’s outer space jazz excursions. Here though, the jazz element is not as predominant as on some of Friedman’s previous releases, the man concentrating on more colourful ambiences instead. In addition to Friedman and Liebezeit, electric guitar fusion legend and Friedman’s long time collaborator Josef Suchy weaves discreet funky touches all the way through, while Copenhagen Morten Grønvad, whose work with Atom™ on his Señor Coconut project hasn’t gone unnoticed, provides beautiful cascades of vibraphone on almost every tracks. Highlights on this album include the nonchalant Rhein Rauf and Royal Roost, as well as Rastafahndung and the three versions of the concluding track, Obscured by 5, mixed together in an almost seamless flow.
For this album, his twelvth album released in just ten years years, Burnt Friedman has once again opted for collaborative work, and is demonstrating the same expressive musical skills as in his past records. Secret Rhythms presents an interesting exchange between the complex worlds of two complementary musicians.
| 01 | Rhein Rauf | 06 | Gulli Verreisen |
| 02 | Rechter Winkel | 07 | Wirklich |
| 03 | Royal Roost | 08 | Obscured
By 5
Short Version |
| 04 | Shades Of Soddin Orion | 09 | Obscured
By 5
Nonplace Remix |
| 05 | Rastafahndung | 10 | Obscured By
5
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BURNT FRIEDMAN
Burnt Friedman Plays Love Songs (NON005) Nonplace 2001 10 Tracks. 43mins13secs. Buy this CD on line now |
Berndt
Friedmann, who has, in the past taken part in post-rave ambient-dub combo
Drome’s adventures, has also perpetrated some musical crimes under the
Nonplace Urban Field, Flanger and Some More Crime banners. Burnt Friedman
is yet another guise used to injects disturbed rhythms and twisted songs
in the listeners’ subconscious.
Burnt Firendman Plays Love Songs is everything but a sugarcoated album. In fact, Plays Love Songs is at times highly disturbing. Fucking Long Time, which opens the album, is a rather straightforward track, oozing jazz and electronic. However, the voice at the beginning of It Hurts! presages of things to come. The song features the twisted tale of a slightly simple seventeen-year-old young man, telling of how if girlfriend doesn’t let him touch her breasts, and how he was pushed from a roof and broke his arm. The background music is as disturbed as the speech, perfectly underlining the tragic/comic situation of the story. After a couple of catchy, refreshing tunes, Friedmann inflicts another blow, with the uncomfortable Tongs Of Love, backed by a guitar and a few environmental noises. Very reminiscent of Chris Morris’s Blue Jam, the main element of the track is the male voice telling of a deeply sensual experience. Sex Is Not Right, conveyed by a rather heavily funked-up soundtrack, delves into the realms of attraction between sexes. Twisted sex is the main subject of this album, and Sex Working Class and Buttman, which closes the album, are equally as unsettling as the rest. But it would be easy to only retain this aspect of the album and totally obliterate the fact that the compositions are genuinely very good, as Friedmann crams jazz, dub, rock and electronic into 45 minutes of perversity. This album doesn’t sound like anything else around, and it is down to the man’s talent to use good samples and get the best out of intriguing collaborations.
The love songs played by Mr. Friedmann are unconventional indeed, and the collection he puts together here is in turn charming or discomforting. His compositions are unmistakably personal, and deserve to make their way to your record collection.
Burnt Firendman Plays Love Songs is everything but a sugarcoated album. In fact, Plays Love Songs is at times highly disturbing. Fucking Long Time, which opens the album, is a rather straightforward track, oozing jazz and electronic. However, the voice at the beginning of It Hurts! presages of things to come. The song features the twisted tale of a slightly simple seventeen-year-old young man, telling of how if girlfriend doesn’t let him touch her breasts, and how he was pushed from a roof and broke his arm. The background music is as disturbed as the speech, perfectly underlining the tragic/comic situation of the story. After a couple of catchy, refreshing tunes, Friedmann inflicts another blow, with the uncomfortable Tongs Of Love, backed by a guitar and a few environmental noises. Very reminiscent of Chris Morris’s Blue Jam, the main element of the track is the male voice telling of a deeply sensual experience. Sex Is Not Right, conveyed by a rather heavily funked-up soundtrack, delves into the realms of attraction between sexes. Twisted sex is the main subject of this album, and Sex Working Class and Buttman, which closes the album, are equally as unsettling as the rest. But it would be easy to only retain this aspect of the album and totally obliterate the fact that the compositions are genuinely very good, as Friedmann crams jazz, dub, rock and electronic into 45 minutes of perversity. This album doesn’t sound like anything else around, and it is down to the man’s talent to use good samples and get the best out of intriguing collaborations.
The love songs played by Mr. Friedmann are unconventional indeed, and the collection he puts together here is in turn charming or discomforting. His compositions are unmistakably personal, and deserve to make their way to your record collection.
| 01 | Fucking Long Time | 06 | Sex Is Not Right |
| 02 | It Hurts | 07 | Body Language |
| 03 | I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm | 08 | Conjoined |
| 04 | 2 Go With You | 09 | Sex Working Class |
| 05 | Tongs Of Love | 10 | Buttman |
DROME ANACHRONISM Pulse Soniq 1992 _ |
Optimism
Dreams 9to1 Drugs Target Tele... Scanners Disposition M.O.B. Anachronism Shy Information Optimism _ |
DROME THE FINAL CORPORATE COLONIZATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS NTone 1995 _ |
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NONPLACE URBAN FIELD NUF SAID Touch 1995 _ |
Intro
Chilled #6 Stupid Little Automatic Servants L Is An Accident Nuf Luf Psyche Nuf Dub Western Dub Hinnennuss Gamma Disco Dub Chilled #7 _ |
DROME DROMED NTone 1996 _ |
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FLANGER TEMPLATES Ntone 1999 Buy it on
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Music To Begin With
Options In The Fire Endless Summer Short Note With A Few Studio Tan Full On Scientist Lata Quicksilver Loom _ |
BURNT FRIEDMAN & THE NU DUB PLAYERS JUST LANDED ~Scape 2000 Buy it on
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Hut
Selector
Just Landed Cassock Attack Worldwide Watchdog Peepshow Railway Palace, Melbourne Hohoura Heads Far North I Shot The Fashion Victim It's Thunder Dub To The Music _ _ |
BERND FRIEDMAN LEISURE ZONES Ash International 2000 Buy it on
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Leisure Zones
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BURNT FRIEDMAN CON RITMO Nonplace 2000 Buy it on
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Los Corraleros
Demolition Derby Octrahedal Spherical Caffufle Platin Tundra Escape The Night Destination Unknown Das Wesen Aus Der Milchstrasse Gondel _ |
FLANGER MIDNIGHT SOUND Ntone 2000 Buy it on
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Nightbeat 1
Bosco's Disposable Driver Midnight Sound We Move So What Human Race Race Angel Of Love Nightbeat 2 Stepping Out Of My Dream _ |
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BURNT FRIEDMAN BURNT FRIEDMAN PLAYS LOVE SONGS Nonplace 2001 Buy it on
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Fucking Long
Time
It Hurts I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 2 Go With You Tongs Of Love Sex Is Not Right Body Language Conjoined Sex Working Class Buttman _ |
FLANGER OUTER SPACE/INNER SPACE Ninja Tune 2001 |
Outer Space/Inner
Space
Galak The Men Who Fell From Earth Inner Spacesuit Le Dernier Combat Unocietecero It Ain't Rocket Science Hirnflug _ |
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BURNT FRIEDMAN & JAKI LIEBEZEIT SECRET RHYTHMS Nonplace 2002 Buy it on
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Rhein Rauf
Rechter Winkel Royal Roost Shades Of Soddin Orion Rastafahndung Guilli Verreisen Wirklich Obscured By 5 Short Version Obscured By 5 Nonplace Remix Obscured By 5 Extended |
| NONPLACE
The Nonoplace website is an art statment. Once you've found how to get in, the content of the site is unfortunately not as good as you would expect. |
| ~SCAPE
German label ~Scape is a recent force on the electronic music scene, but with artists like Kit Clayton or Jan Jelinek, they've already proved what they're worth. They're also responsible for the first Burnt Friedman opus. You'll need Flash to visit their site. |