B.Friedman & Theo Altenberg release "Surprise Me", a song concerning life on the football ground, Play Up compilation (Juno / Kontextrecords)

For the legendary Bob Marley two places on this world combined passion and rhythm in the same way: The stage and the football ground. Playing and dancing belonged together. There are many artists from all over the world who still do agree to his point of view. Because of their love of football and of music, the project PlayUp came together: Musicians from Brazil, US, Italy, Portugal, France, Angola, Japan, Spain, Senegal, Turkey, Ivory Coast, Pakistan and Germany joined in and exclusively wrote and recorded football-songs for this project: PlayUp! (distributed via MDM)

Listen to the tracks: www.playup.org
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"Surprise Me" is trying to compress the complexity, the energetic power and the theatrical drama of the football game from 90 down to 3 minutes 20. No intro, immediate start of the game, getting close to the penalty area. Guest musicians: Manjao Faty - guitars and Hayden Chisholm - saxophone

The latest Friedman & Altenberg corporation is now released on "Souvenirs" (G-Stone) amongst others. The remix collection start off with "John Lee Huber" (Tosca) remixed by Friedman & Altenberg in 2005.