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"Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (Tombak) & Burnt Friedman (electronics, synth.) release their second EP "YEK 2". Equipped with one drum only and laser-pattern electronics, Mortazavi and Friedman produce an elegant, yet archaic, trance-inducing, transnational music with ...
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"Burnt Friedman has again conspired with the upper echelons of the musically interesting, this time teaming up with David Sylvian." (label info)
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"Since 2018 João Pais Filipe (on drums) and Burnt Friedman (electronics/synth) investigate into automatic pattern-composition rooted in doubling and halving- the unimpeachable laws of motion. The offer of freedom can be seen as a way to get in touch with necessity. On ...
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"Side A: Friedman & Pais. Joao Pais Filipe, drums and Burnt Friedman, electronics ultimately activate cosmic mechanics, as a form of automatic music, with a focus on odd rhythmic modes; Friedman & Pais develop an immersive, archaic new level-dance music, rooted in ...
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"The system of scales, and also the fact that the western central Europeans rely on recorded or written script in order to conserve the themes of their music, could lead us to look upon it as a form of art music. Other factors, however relate it to popular music, e.g. ...
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"Master drummer Jaki Liebezeit was very pleased that the craft of drum making has not changed much over the course of time. Be it that a skin is stretched over a drum with cords or bolts or be it that the skin is out of plastic or animal hide - the principle remains the ...
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"Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit, who died earlier this year played on over 200 releases but strangely the group that he worked the closest with for over 35 years have only ever released a handful of tracks. Jaki developed a profound and all-encompassing systematic approach ...
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"Moods and impressions from Friedman's Sub-Saharan concert tour in 2013 as well as fragments of memories of an imaginary future fuse together in the music and text of all eleven tracks. These responses to real-life "kpafuca" ("things falling apart") - conditions in ...
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"It is now 10 years ago that the first record was produced for the Nonplace label: Burnt Friedman´s cybernetic Latin escapade Con Ritmo with Joseph Suchy on electric guitar and Atom T on Moog synth. The album sold out quickly and is finally available again.The new, ...
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""Bokoboko" comes from the Japanese and means "uneven", "hollow-sounding" - adjectives aptly describing the album's crooked, dynamic grooves as well as the many percussively resounding instruments. Friedman, recognizable more or less by the sound of the ten instrumental ...
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"This record provides another zest clue in introducing the means of Dub-music production to various genres: blues, soul, klezmer and afrofunk without spending time wasting sound-effects. The tracks are relatively short and compact although they contain a large amount of ...
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