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Keyboardist and programmer Friedman goes in search of
Secret Rhythms with former Can drummer Liebezeit. Burnt's seductive solo albums (
Con Ritmo,
Plays Love Songs) and his work in the
Flanger duo have already been marking him out as a major force in what we'll have to call organic jazz-electro-Latin-funk. His own Nonplace label is also the home of innovative packaging. This album boasts a monstrously powerful sound, sleek and shiny in its details. Liebezeit's current drumming style is stripped down to a metronome action, shorn of all needless embellishment. Coupled with Friedman's bulging basslines, Jaki's cyclic patterns alternate between one-track obsession and cut-up stumbling, toying with the in-between spaces. His clipped snare and all-pervading bass drum fuel the funk, getting heaviest on the dub reggae mutation of "Rastafahndung". Morten Gronvad's vibraphone also plays a crucial role, particularly on the Indonesian gamelan shimmer of "Rechter Winkel", while guitarist Josef Suchy completes the line-up, chopping out his pock-marked wah-wah fills. A triple remix set closes the disc, merging into a single entity, the final "Obscured By 5" vividly incorporating street noises as it bubbles along like a melting rubber snake.--
Martin Longley
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