Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman share a preference for so-called Secret Rhythms, which means that the rhythms are not hidden but less common, often foreign to western culture. The artists have consciously turned away from Western European, Anglo-American regulated rhythm (based on 4) in order to enrich their vocabulary with all globally relevant rhythms.Jaki Liebezeit: “It possibly incorporated many elements of this earth without featuring any specific elements. The individual elements have been made abstract, no ethnic or national character remains, there’s nothing typical to Seville or Istanbul, but the properties held in common by all types of music have been abstracted and processed.” If it is still possible to establish a link with his past as a member of CAN, then it lies in the spirit with which he seeks, then as now, new musical forms. The post-CAN Liebezeit not only created his own cycle-based drum system but also developed an innovative drumset that concentrates on the essentials and permits a mode of playing that was already theoretically honed to be physically implemented in optimum fashion. Friedman’s programmed or played sequences and placeless sound particles adhere to the same understanding of rhythm, allowing the two heterogeneous sound generators to perfectly intermesh and form a unit – both acoustically and electronically, in terms of improvisation and concept alike. Friedman and Liebezeit came together in Cologne in 2001, having recognized that they were on the same musical wavelength and exploring the territory beyond the current style reproductions, that is to say: working remote from retro or recycling !
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit's Friend Space (Top 12)
...war das gestern schön in Frankfurt! Kann gar nicht aufhören den verborgenen Rhythmen zu lauschen, Ege Bamyasi und Golden Star hab ich heute allerdings auch schon geschafft...:-)
Tracklisting 01. Arvo Part - Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten [CCT] 02. Gil Scott-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit [Strata East] 03. Bill Laswell - Is This Love [Island] 04. Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah [Burial Mix] 05. Barbara Lynn - I'm A Good Woman [Fryer Mantis] 06. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up [Creation] 07. Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps [99 Records] 08. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song [THISISNOTANEXIT] 09. Lucky Dragons - About Peter [Marriage] 10. Danielle Dax - The Spoil Factor [Biter Of Thorpe] 11. King Hannibal - The Truth Shall Make You Free [Aware] 12. Dooza - Baby I Like it Raw [Foot Forward] 13. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Bertha Butt Boogie [Atlantic] 14. The Stranglers - Bear Cage [I.R.S.] 15. Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal & Jaki Liebezeit - Woolloomooloo Bay [EVVA] 16. Deerhoof - Family Of Others [Kill Rock Stars] 17. T-Bone Burnett - Humans From Earth [Warner] 18. Dog Faced Hermans - Wings [Konkurrel] 19. The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You [A&M]
" .. to be interested (in Satie) one must be disinterested to begin with, accept that a sound is a sound and a man is a man, give up illusions about ideas of order, expressions of sentiment, and all the rest of our inherited aesthetic claptrap .. "
"It's not important, but i like it if people dance to the music," said Jaki Liebezeit in a recent interview. "Sometimes it happens." The drummer is likely to get his wish with Secret Rhythms 3, his third collaboration with Cologne's dub deconstructionist Burnt Friedman. The album, their most muscular so far, is a study in music as movement. Liebeziet's drumming sets the pace on every song, and the duo's collaborators - improvising guitarist Joseph Suchy, Philadelphia's jazz- and soul-schooled guitarist Tim Motzer and Root 70 reedman Hayden Chisholm - fold themselves into the mix like tendons and sinews. Some of that is no doubt due to Friedman's touch as a producer. The studio remains one of his principle instruments, and his mixing helps to smear disparate contributions into a blurry totality. But these seven songs also sound as live as anything Friedman has done, less the product of clever studio constructions than of a real-time mind meld. the album's sheer physicality is helped by the fact that many of these rhythms do indeed seem to harbour secrets. Try as I might to count out the time signatures to "Morning has Broken', I fail, and yet nothing sounds 'difficult' here. Their loping pulses may be riddled with kinks and strange switchbacks, but they keep coursing forward, carrying the listener with them. Although melody takes a third place to rhythm and timbre, riffs and pointillistic daubs of colour create an expressive sensibility that's often lost in rigorously repetitive music. Phillip Sherburne
