João Pais Filipe drums and Burnt Friedman electronics ultimately activate cosmic mechanics, as a form of automatic music, with a focus on odd rhythmic modes; Friedman & Pais develop an immersive, archaic new level–dance music, rooted in natural laws of motion.
Side B | Liebezeit & Friedman
2 new Secret Rhythms–contributions, recorded in 2016 and played lived frequently. Central to the so–called Secret Rhythms– concept is Jaki Liebezeit’s radical “drum code”, which organizes pressure mediation according to mother nature (Eurydike).
João Pais Filipe (born 1980) is a gong–building, cymbal–smithing drummer/percussionist from Porto. Known for his solo releases, he has also been working with HHY & The Macumbas, CZN, Paisiel, and has collaborated with Z’EV, Fritz Hauser and Manongo Mujica.
Jaki Liebezeit (1938-2017) numbers among the world’s foremost drummers. Between 1968 and 1978, playing as a founding member of the legendary Can, he produced rhythms to be heard nowhere else, anticipating by many years the loops of modern club music. His delicate and peerlessly precise drum sound is audible in countless studio productions by a range of artists from Conny Plank to Jah Wobble, from Eno to Depeche Mode. But by the early 1990s Liebezeit felt he had exhausted the possibilities of conventional drums. He made a radical break, and began to re-define, or re-invent, what drumming was about.
Jaki Liebezeit:
“That explains why I’ve meanwhile abandoned conventional drums, the standard American kit. I looked around for something different, and now I just play drums. People keep saying my drumming is so reduced, but there’s nothing minimalist about the way I play, I just leave out the superfluous stuff.”
credits
released March 27, 2020
Jaki Liebezeit – drums (on side B)
João Pais Filipe– drums, gongs, bells (on side A)
Burnt Friedman – other instruments, mix&arrangement
supported by 34 fans who also own “LiebezeitIFriedmanIPais–Eurydike”
The impecable work of two great artists. It's difficult to know what each has done on this record and it is that that makes it so great. Mortazavi and Friedman are very complementary and bring a sort of relaxed dub to the world which is very satisfying. Thibaut Devigne
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Mohammad is an exceptional percussionist - so crisp, snappy, precise, and flowing. Burnt Friedman's electronic accompaniments are a perfect foil for this - this is excellent night-music, with touches of early autechre sounds as well as 90's synth-heavy industrial music and more fuzzed out hazy sounds. Jascha Narveson
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