NONPLACE

"Second CD edition of instrumental soundtracks composed and edited for film- or tv-companies produced by Burnt Friedman and Hayden chisholm contributions from The Embassadors, Root70 (play Nu Dub Players), Hayden Chisholm, Flanger, Burnt Friedman and the 90s outlet, ...
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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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"After 10 years, AtomTM and Burnt Friedman have composed and produced their fifth long player. This time, not surrendering to genre-restricting limits, both have progressed from the initial skills shown on their debut album "Templates" back in 1999, which still spins ...
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"With this CD Nonplace releases the first edition in a series of instrumental soundtracks that were edited for film or television companies over the past decade or aim at being used in conjunction with moving images. All pieces were produced by Burnt Friedman or/and ...
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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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"Repetition: Into the Tohuwabohu, cultural patterns are passed. Saam Schlamminger (aka Chronomad) learned to play numerous instruments, such as frame drums and lutes from various regions of the world. He is an expert in rhythms and tunings and repetitive contemporary ...
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"With this Anniversary Edition featuring 14 exclusive tracks, Nonplace celebrates ten years of labeldom. Ever since Burnt Friedman shortened his pseudonym Nonplace Urban Field to Nonplace back in 2000, the title has provided an ideal formula for music that soars upward ...
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""First Night Forever" contains 10 new songs with vocals, featuring Steve Spacek, Enik, Barbara Panther, Daniel Dodd-Ellis and Theo Altenberg amongst others." (label info)
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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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