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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
Burnt Friedman - keyboards/Korg MS20 synth/edits/dubs
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
produced and arranged by Hayden Chisholm and Burnt Friedman
recorded by Wolfgang Stach in Cologne, October 2005
Published by Freibank
Complete Tracklisting:
B.Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Get Things Straight (Can't Cool, Nonplace)
B.Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Designer Groove (Can't Cool, Nonplace)
B.Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Five Star Group Travel (Can't Cool, Nonplace)
B.Friedman - Destination Unknown (Con Ritmo, Nonplace)
B.Friedman - Tongs Of Love (Love Songs, Nonplace)
B.Friedman - Escape The Night (Con Ritmo, Nonplace)
B.Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Life Is Worth Dying For (Can't Cool, Nonplace)
Flanger - This Ain't Rocket Science (Inner Space/Outer Space, Ninja Tune)
Flanger - Bosco's Disposable Driver (Midnight Sound, Ninja Tune)
Flanger - Nightbeat (Midnight Sound, Ninja Tune)
Press info
These days, it's all about reconstruction. Well, actually it's always been about that. Only that in this day and age, with all those electronic devices surrounding us, there's so many more possibilities to re-arrange, re-play, re-mix and re-cycle. But while most musical reconstruction today is depending on electronic means, HEAPS DUB presents a slightly different approach. Burnt Friedman's various projects - that often cross the borders of the most traditional jazz while being produced in Friedman's own genuine electronic style - experience an acoustic makeover on this album.
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.
Daniel Giebel