Root 70 plays the music of Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players and Flanger Title: Heaps Dub Cat. No.: non20 Format: CD, LP Release Date: 02.06.2006
Hayden Chisholm - saxophone/clarinet/melodica Nils Wogram - trombone Jochen Rueckert - drums Matt Penman - double bass
Black Sifichi - voice & lyrics on "Revivitator" (Tongs Of Love), recorded by Black Sifichi in Paris, 2001 Norbert
Krämer - metal percussion and cymbals on "Five Star Group Travel",
congas on "It Ain't Rocket Science" and "Bosco's Disposable Driver",
recorded by B.Friedman in Cologne, January 2006 Claudio Ortuzar /
Ernesto Artunez - percussion on "Get Things Straight" and "It Ain't
Rocket Science", recorded by Atom™ in Santiago De Chile as part of the
Flanger "Inner Space/Outer Space" sessions, 2001 Joseph Suchy -
electric guitar on "Destination Unknown" and "Escape The Night",
recorded in Cologne as part of the "Con Ritmo" sessions, 1999 Burnt Friedman - keyboards/Korg MS20 synth/edits/dubs
produced and arranged by Hayden Chisholm and Burnt Friedman - recorded by Wolfgang Stach in Cologne, October 2005
Published by Freibank
Reviews
'Heaps Dub' is idiosyncratic to the last - with each piece lasting
exactly five minutes and managing to pack more freewheeling
instrumentation into those 300 seconds than many similar outfits manage
over an entire album. Intricate, clever and (most importantly!)
fun, 'Heaps Dub' is the sound of musicians in love with their craft.
Root down! ( Boomkat, UK )
One of the albums getting very high
rotation at Chateau Peril at the moment is Root 70’s Heaps Dub (...)
Saxophone, clarinet, trombone, double bass and light touch drum work
combine with Friedman's subtle post-production effects, revealing the
strength of Friedman (and Atom Heart's) original compositions even when
freed from their digital roots. Root 70’s Heaps Dub is one to check. (
Perilious, AUS )
"Heaps Dub" turns out to be a successful release - one that is infused with sufficient energy and fervour. ( Vivo, PL )
...to me the magic is in the subtle changes, the interplay between
voices, the explosions of timbre -it's by far the most MUSICAL thing
i've heard this year. ( Philip Sherburne )
Press info
The
ten tracks assembled on HEAPS DUB all come from the diverse albums
Friedman has released with the projects Flanger - together with Atom™ -
The Nu Dub Players and also solo on his Nonplace label from 2000-2004.
This selection was chosen by Hayden Chisholm, long-time collaborator of
Friedman in the various live outfits with which the two tour the world
together. Chisholm is also part of the acclaimed jazz band ROOT 70 who
have now come to play the once electronically conceived brain children
of Friedman in a somewhat classic jazz quartet style - acoustic, from
the page, and live.
HEAPS DUB therefore presents the
reconstruction of the reconstruction: Friedman in his original
programmed work has always tried to come as close as it gets to the
authenticity of natural instruments and the spirit of a band playing -
to question the very principle of "natural". ROOT 70 on this album have
"re-naturalized" the programmed works of Friedman - not necessarily to
question the very principle of "programmed", but to show that these
works are true songs in their own right, as well as musical favourites,
no matter what the overall circumstances might be.
HEAPS DUB
comes full cycle with the final production, editing and overdubs that
Burnt Friedman did after Hayden Chisholm, Nils Wogram, Matt Penman and
Jochen Rueckert had recorded their versions of his diverse songs. There
are four dub tunes, some latin-jazz songs as well as a spoken word
piece and a smooth jazz track on the album. Connecting them is the
general length of five minutes per track - and the unmistakable
timeless quality of Flanger and Friedman's songwriting. And songwriting
is, as we all should know by now, just another form of reconstruction.
