Jazz Articles about Burnt Friedman

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Album Review

Friedman & Liebezeit: Secret Rhythms 4

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 9, 2011

Nuovo capitolo della collaborazione tra Burnt Friedman e il batterista storico dei Can, Jaki Liebezeit: la formula instaurata ormai da un decennio [non a caso questo è il volume numero 4 della serie Secret Rhythms] regge e si rivela anche particolarmente flessibile, pur mantenendo caratteristiche di base ben identificabili. L'incontro infatti tra un drumming così colorato e ipnotico e le suggestioni elettroniche genera ancora una volta un seducente ambiente di onirismo ritmico, mai invasivo e al tempo stesso declinato su ...

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Album Review

Burnt Friedman & The NuDub Players: Can't Cool

Read "Can't Cool" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 25, 2003

Composer, arranger, producer, and performer (on drums, marimbas, vibes, synthesizer, piano, and other keyboards) Burnt Friedman normally blasts progressive rock and jazz apart, but when working with his NuDub Players ensemble he takes aim at de/constructing avant-garde reggae and dub. Whether inspired lunacy or just plain craziness, this third NuDub release, featuring trombonist Ian Perry, saxophonist Thomas Haas, and bassist August Engkilde--among twenty musicians from Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Detroit, Cape Town, Santiago de Chile, Cologne and Berlin--is no doubt ...