| November 2008: Secret Rhythms |
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Record review in XLR8R, U.S.
burnt feature (french language) in MCD, France ("Les musiques électroniques sont toujours à l’honneur avec, dans ce numéro, des focus sur Bernd Friedmann, une des figures les plus énigmatiques de l'ambient electronic allemande.") Record review in Cyclic Defrost, Australia Record review in Popmatters, U.S. It´s infectiously electric, from its quivering technical cleverness to its floorfilling properties. (Plan B, UK) Secret Rhythms 3 occasionally achieves the effortless synthesis between acoustic and electronic sounds it aims for. (POPMATTERS, USA) The album, their most muscular so far, is a study in music as movement. (THE WIRE, UK) Three volumes on and whilst you can’t help but wonder how much further this duo can take their extremely palatable difficult music, part of you just doesn’t care, you want your artists to be twisting and contorting, to be placing seemingly insurmountable limitations on themselves and coming out the other side with music as jaw dropping and ass shaking as this. (CYCLIC DEFROST, AUS) This results in Secret Rhythms being at once the most varied of the three albums Friedman and Liebezeit have collaborated on, and the most consistent. (MILKFACTORY,UK) Fluidity and cyclicity are the two main themes present, with a seamless weaving together of rhythm and sound, a space where neither dominates but both intersect and interact in surprising and sparklingly magical ways. (BRAINWASHED, USA) they manage to conjure up the most magical of musical vistas. (BRAINWASHED, USA) |
