Nonplace

Bokoboko album release 3rd February

Burnt — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:17:52 +0000

Explorative, percussive and employing a range of unconventional instruments, yet the music "remains as light as air floating in limbo." DUBLAB offers a free download of Sendou (album track)

review at Big Shot
review at Exclaim
review at Ink19
review at DMC World
review and purchase from Boomkat
download album mp3 from Zero Inch
review and free download from Dublab
French review at LeGrandBazart
German review at IrieItes
German review at Paco42
German review at Titel-Magazin
German review at Monster and Critics
Japanese review at Resident Advisor
Japanese review and info
Japanese review at Barks
Japanese review at Resident Advisor
Japanese review at Senza Colori
Japanese review at Japonica
Friedman Charts at Technique, Japan
review at Milkfactory

Outernationality

Burnt — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:58:54 +0000

“The entire Industrial movement in England was not just inspired by Can, Cluster and Kraftwerk – they were all-pervasive. As an Englishman it’s hard for me to judge just how German the German avantgarde was back then. But I reckon very little about it was specifically German, otherwise those bands wouldn’t have become so important for musicians around the globe. I even believe the Germans put up much more resistance to being identified with their country than we Brits did. I was always fascinated by how international Can were: maybe they used world receivers, Morse code and Afro beats because they wanted to distance themselves from that accursed image? We were so fascinated by Can precisely because they treated all forms of national or ethnic music purely as a question of the sound – and in that way arrived at an international form.” Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) in Martin Büsser´s Testcard Zwei (1995)

“The colonial exploitation that annihilates the ‘other’ in favour of the ‘own’ and the ‘same’ must be strictly distinguished from appropriation, which is constitutive for education and identity. Only an idiot, or God, lives without appropriation. The ‘own’ is not simply given like a date. Rather, it is the result of successful appropriation. Without appropriation there is also no renewal. (...) Those who appropriate the ‘other’ do not remain identical with themselves. Appropriation entails a transformation of the own.” Byung-Chul Han, Hyperkulturalität (2005).

NON33 – Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko

Burnt — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:03:02 +0000

release 3rd February 2012 / download release 17th February
review at Big Shot Magazine
review at DMC World
review at Milkfactory
review at Exclaim
review at Ink 19

"Bokoboko is determinedly irregular, singular as snow flakes, and so departed from its sources, so thoroughly developed and intertwined, it can rightfully claim to have evolved into some new state of originality and authenticity."(Uncut)

The uneven types of rhythm, which provide the specific oscillation on which all the tracks are based, in principle obey all the components: melodies, noises, monophone sequences and dub echoes inserted into pre-sketched, programmed basic tracks. The tracks of the current production, like those in Secret Rhythms, Friedman’s live-and-studio project with Jaki Liebezeit, must be viewed as intermediate phases in an on-going process. They are not finalized, completed pieces that permit no further alteration, nor do they correspond to the idea of an original with unmistakable identity. On the contrary: permutability is their salient feature, and they are built according to a plan that follows natural laws.

tracklisting CD

01 Rimuse 2 2:28
02 Uzu 9:25
03 Deku No Bo 3:17
04 Sendou 4:49
05 Totan Yane 3:16
06 Tom Tom Keppo 3:16
07 Mura 4:43
08 Bokoboko 3:50
09 Rimuse 3 5:46
10 Memai 6:24

tracklisting 2x12"

A1 Uzu 9:25
B1 Deku No Bo 3:17
B2 Sendou 4:49
B3 Totan Yane 3:16
C1 Tom Tom Keppo 3:16
C2 Mura 4:43
C3 Bokoboko 3:50
D1 Rimuse 3 4:57
D2 Memai 6:24

Burnt Friedman - pans, drums, organ, Korg Ms20,
sampler, guitars, rubberbox (track 7), monochord
Hayden Chisholm - reeds, tracks 3/4/6/7/8/10
Daniel Schröter - bass guitar, tracks 5/6/7/10
Joseph Suchy - electric guitar, tracks 4/5/9
Takeshi Nishimoto - sarod, tracks 4/8
David Franzke - field recordings, tracks 1/3/6/7/8/9/10

composed and mixed by B.Friedman 2009-2011
mastering by Rashad Becker
original versions of Rimuse (Part1) and Tom Tom Keppo appear
exclusively on 12" Vinyl entitled Zen´Aku (non31)
cover artwork by Theo Altenberg (O.T.) oil on cardboard 2011

NON32 – Secret Rhythms+ – Shackleton Remix/Rashad Becker Mix

Burnt — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:24:16 +0000

release 7th October 2011

A 255-6 Shackleton Remix (originally 255-7) 8:47
B The Sticks Rashad Becker Mix 6:12

This is the first vinyl edition of the new Friedman & Liebezeit´s Secret Rhythms Remix series, entitled "secret rhythms+", with one of the rare appearances of Sam Shackleton as remixer. He recomposed the CD album track "255-7" from the most recent "Secret Rhythms 4" album release. Although keeping the orignal Liebezeit drum sound, he basically arranged a new groove based on a different time signature. Organ sequences weave minimalistic melodic lines all through the rich dubwise texture of this 8:50 remix.

Rashad Becker, the Nonplace label´s permanent mastering engineer has mixed "The Sticks", originally released on "Secret Rhythms 2", made available in 2005. This piece was deliberately called "Mix" because the arrangement wasn´t touched. Instead, Rashad Becker treated the single instrument tracks in drastic manner, dehumanizing Friedman & Liebezeit´s acoustic mantra to the point of irrecognizability.

Zen´Aku EP release 17th June 2011

Burnt — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:53:31 +0000

Burnt Friedman´s 4 exclusive tracks 12" Zen´Aku comes out on June 17th ! He rattles the pots and pans and also presents his latest technological breakthrough in the form of the rubber band guitar. Guest appearances come from Joseph Suchy, electric guitar, Daniel Schroeter, bass, Hayden Chisholm, reeds and Takeshi Nishimoto, Sarod. The limited edition sleeve artwork was created by Berlin artist Theo Altenberg (oil on cardboard).

NON31 – Burnt Friedman – Zen`Aku

SCorteyn — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:03:21 +0000

released 17th June 2011

tracklisting

A
ZEN´AKU 6:05
NIN´NIN KEPPO 4:18
B
SHIKAKU KANKEI 5:40
RIMUSE 5:59

All 4 tracks appear on this vinyl edition only and are not included on Bokoboko (non33).

New Release in April 2011

SCorteyn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:18:47 +0000

The next round of Friedman & Liebezeit´s Secret Rhythms will be released on CD, 15th April 2011.What began as a rehearsal for a concert delivered at Cologne Triennale 2000 turned into a long-term exploration of the laws governing rhythm. Therefore, this fourth CD is based, like its predecessors, on a variety of rhythms seldom heard elsewhere.

Extreme manipulation, percussive overdubs and Burnt Friedman’s sequence-like guitar and synthesizer (Korg MS20, in this case) provide accompaniment for music to which the notion of domination is foreign. The six hypnotic instrumentals are driven by Liebezeit’s cyclic drumming. In Secret Rhythms 4, the interplay of reduction and maximization is elevated to an aesthetic principle, the sound distributed dynamically over background and foreground. Fusing electronic and acoustic, improvisation and postproduction, Friedman & Liebezeit move further away from Anglo-American models. And although the duo’s preference for repetition is evidence of a refusal to flaunt virtuosity, the revived notion of Krautrock seems wholly inappropriate for Friedman & Liebezeit. Be it in concert or in the studio, the swing emerges naturally from the rhythmic pattern. That Mark Ernestus was invited to mix and co-produce the second track on the album is no coincidence: he played an important part in producing club tracks (e.g. Rhythm & Sound) unsurpassed in their bold minimalism and refined quality of sound.

Jaki Liebezeit: “Just one bass drum and two sticks – like in Turkish music, for example – are sufficient to create a great rhythm. The layering of tones, chords, intervals: that’s European thinking, structural musical engineering! It’s too much for me. I like clear structures, music you can look through, with space.”

While the three preceding albums were dominated by guest contributions, the new production is devoted almost exclusively to Liebezeit’s drum set and the Friedman-typical combination of keyboards and string instruments, all kinds of percussion and the computer. There are two appearances (tracks 1, 3) by Joseph Suchy, whose unmistakable guitar sound has left its mark on all the Secret Rhythm releases.

Rashad Becker has been responsible for mastering all Nonplace titles since the first production in 2000. For the first time, Friedman and Becker co-mixed one of the album titles, a spin-off from “Entsafter” (Secret Rhythms 3), a track whose groove was previously used in “Obscured by 5” and “The Librarian” (Secret Rhythms 1 and 2).

Release: 15th April 2011

In Berlin

SCorteyn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:17:05 +0000

Mark Ernestus, Sam Shackleton and Burnt Friedman appear as DJs supporting Konono Nº1

Live at Berghain, February, 25th 2011, 20:00, Berlin, Germany

NON30 – Friedman & Liebezeit – Secret Rhythms 4

SCorteyn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:23:01 +0000

CD release: 15th April 2011

“For many Britons Jaki Liebezeit’s sound has remained the embodiment of a groove-oriented, trance-like, African attitude to rhythm.” (Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)

The fourth album release in the Secret Rhythms series by Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit results from a ten-year collaborative project encompassing live performances and studio sessions. What began as a rehearsal for a concert delivered at Cologne Triennale 2000 turned into a long-term exploration of the laws governing rhythm. Therefore, this fourth CD is based, like its predecessors, on a variety of rhythms seldom heard elsewhere. Ink19 Review

review at milkfactory

tracklisting

01 204-07 (10:44)
02 128-05 (10:21) mix by Mark Ernestus
03 182-11 (15:40)
04 131-07 (05:33)
05 120-11 (04:17)
06 120-05 (10:20) mix by Rashad Becker and Burnt Friedman

all tracks composed by Friedman & Liebezeit except
track 2 by Friedman/Liebezeit/Ernestus

"More than ever centered around Liebezeit’s hypnotic drumming, Secret Rhythms 4 sees the pair move into more minimal, stripped down terrains, the rhythmic patterns forever more cyclical, repetitive and fluid, layered with fragments of electronics and guitars, themselves set into loops of varying intensity and length."(milkfactory)

Titel-Magazin Review auf Deutsch

Liebezeit: “Just one bass drum and two sticks – like in Turkish music, for example – are sufficient to create a great rhythm. The layering of tones, chords, intervals: that’s European thinking, structural musical engineering! It’s too much for me. I like clear structures, music you can look through, with space.”

There are two appearances (tracks 1, 3) by Joseph Suchy, whose unmistakable guitar sound has left its mark on all the Secret Rhythm releases. Rashad Becker has been responsible for mastering all Nonplace titles since the first production in 2000. Friedman and Becker co-mixed track 6 (120-5), a spin-off from “Entsafter” (Secret Rhythms 3), a track whose groove was previously used in “Obscured by 5” and “The Librarian” (Secret Rhythms 1 and 2).

guest musicians
Joseph Suchy - E-Fuzz guitar on track 1 and 3
Tim Motzer - E-Fuzz guitar on track 6
Hayden Chisholm - Flute and Saxophone on track 5
Daniel Schroeter - Bass guitar on track 1

NON29 – Friedman & Liebezeit – 5 7

SCorteyn — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:17:31 +0000

12" EP, October 2010

"It´s infectiously electric, from ist quivering technical cleverness to its floorfilling properties." (Plan B, UK)

"Fourth World Jam. Sensual and fluid." (The Wire)

tracklisting

01. 5 128-5 mixed by Mark Ernestus
02. 7 204-7 mixed by Burnt Friedman

Interview with Jaki Liebezeit

Artwork by Theo Altenberg

Nonplace

Bokoboko album release 3rd February

Outernationality

NON33 – Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko

NON33 – Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko (CD)

NON33 – Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko (2LP)

NON32 – Secret Rhythms+ – Shackleton Remix/Rashad Becker Mix

NON32 – Secret Rhythms+ – Shackleton Remix/Rashad Becker Mix

Zen´Aku EP release 17th June 2011

NON31 – Burnt Friedman – Zen`Aku

tracklisting

NON31 – Burnt Friedman – Zen`Aku

New Release in April 2011

In Berlin

NON30 – Friedman & Liebezeit – Secret Rhythms 4

tracklisting

NON30 – Friedman & Liebezeit – Secret Rhythms 4 (CD)

NON29 – Friedman & Liebezeit – 5 7

tracklisting

NON29 - Friedman & Liebezeit - 5 7 (EP)