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Two of the most prolific producers in electronic music, Atom (aka Uwe Schmidt, Señor Coconut) and Burnt Friedman, team up as Flanger to create music that looks retrospectively to the past for its inspiration. With a group of marvelous musicians they swing back to the raw soul of the 1920s. Crafting jazz that blurs the lines between analog and electronics, this new Flanger album is all about re-imagining a period when music was still playful. Referencing a spiritual aesthetic when music was instantaneous and pure, they corralled material from their diverse live performances and guest musicians, much like the fin-de-siècle researchers who recorded the first spirituals. Infusing this release with a global bent, they sent their efforts back and forth electronically between their studios in Santiago, Chile and Cologne, Germany. Despite these technological touches, this album is not about reconstructing endless virtuoso solos via mere knob-twiddling. With Spirituals, Flanger want to explore and relive the emotional sides of this jazz-before-jazz, its moods and sentiments. The duo Flanger have been one of the boldest pioneers of contemporary music, known for doing the unexpected and for their ability to float freely into new frontiers. But no one could have expected that their fourth album, Spirituals would be a musical trip to the pre-jazz era of Swing music dating from 1920 to 1940, Django Reinhardt, New Orleans blues and Dixieland. Duke Ellington springs to mind. 1920s original styles recorded with the techniques of today -- modern acoustic instruments and hard drive science. Say hello to Burnt Friedman and Uwe Schmidt plus an Australian vocalist and a load of marvelous musicians, including: Riff Jackson III, Laurence Pike aka MF Shakespeare, Hayden Chisholm, Robert Nacken, Cameron Deyell, Thomas Hass, Lars Vissing, and Mocke Depret.
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What with Uwe Schmidt’s relentless output as Atom TM and a million other guises its often easy to forget that the first album he released under the Flanger moniker with Burnt Friedman was about as innovative and influential as the post-jazz-glitch movement has ever produced. Beautifully microscopic emissions, percussive lines made out of bits of static and white noise, skittering beats and deep Rhodes keyed in for that late night jazz club effect. The two albums that followed on from this amazing debut failed to recapture the same fresh spark, instead settling for a less daring approach to largely familiar material. It’s nice to see, then, that for their fourth album (the first for Friedman’s own Nonplace imprint) the duo have drafted in a whole host of contributors and have radically altered their sound – delivering a rather bizarre but refreshing take on 1920’s charleston with minimal digital intervention. The vocals of Riff Pike III do for the jazzclub what Jamie Lidell has done for funk – straight delivery that’s only ever so slightly given the traditional flanger treatment - consciously at the other end of the spectrum to what this duo have delieverd in the past. A cockle-warming, feelgood excursion from two undisputed masters.
Boomkat
Label: Nonplace
Catalog#: NON18
Format: Audio CD
Country: Germany
Track Title
1 Funeral March
2 Crime In The Pale Moonlight
3 How Long Is The Wrong Way ?
4 Down The River
5 Music Is Our Secret Code
6 Tiny Tina
7 Hope To Hear Back Soon, Honey
8 Peninsula
9 In My Car (Single Version)
10 In My Car (Bolt Mix)
11 How Long Is The Wrong Way ? (Extended)
12 Crime In The Pale Moonlight (Short Version)
Comments
New surprising album from crazy Flangers, Swing/Jazz in the style of the twenties with an electronic rug.....great
Also for Jazz Lovers
A special dedication To Sat
Another Flanger fan :music: :D
Two of the most prolific producers in electronic music, Atom (aka Uwe Schmidt, Señor Coconut) and Burnt Friedman, team up as Flanger to create music that looks retrospectively to the past for its inspiration. With a group of marvelous musicians they swing back to the raw soul of the 1920s. Crafting jazz that blurs the lines between analog and electronics, this new Flanger album is all about re-imagining a period when music was still playful. Referencing a spiritual aesthetic when music was instantaneous and pure, they corralled material from their diverse live performances and guest musicians, much like the fin-de-siècle researchers who recorded the first spirituals. Infusing this release with a global bent, they sent their efforts back and forth electronically between their studios in Santiago, Chile and Cologne, Germany. Despite these technological touches, this album is not about reconstructing endless virtuoso solos via mere knob-twiddling. With Spirituals, Flanger want to explore and relive the emotional sides of this jazz-before-jazz, its moods and sentiments. The duo Flanger have been one of the boldest pioneers of contemporary music, known for doing the unexpected and for their ability to float freely into new frontiers. But no one could have expected that their fourth album, Spirituals would be a musical trip to the pre-jazz era of Swing music dating from 1920 to 1940, Django Reinhardt, New Orleans blues and Dixieland. Duke Ellington springs to mind. 1920s original styles recorded with the techniques of today -- modern acoustic instruments and hard drive science. Say hello to Burnt Friedman and Uwe Schmidt plus an Australian vocalist and a load of marvelous musicians, including: Riff Jackson III, Laurence Pike aka MF Shakespeare, Hayden Chisholm, Robert Nacken, Cameron Deyell, Thomas Hass, Lars Vissing, and Mocke Depret.
chaindlk
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What with Uwe Schmidt’s relentless output as Atom TM and a million other guises its often easy to forget that the first album he released under the Flanger moniker with Burnt Friedman was about as innovative and influential as the post-jazz-glitch movement has ever produced. Beautifully microscopic emissions, percussive lines made out of bits of static and white noise, skittering beats and deep Rhodes keyed in for that late night jazz club effect. The two albums that followed on from this amazing debut failed to recapture the same fresh spark, instead settling for a less daring approach to largely familiar material. It’s nice to see, then, that for their fourth album (the first for Friedman’s own Nonplace imprint) the duo have drafted in a whole host of contributors and have radically altered their sound – delivering a rather bizarre but refreshing take on 1920’s charleston with minimal digital intervention. The vocals of Riff Pike III do for the jazzclub what Jamie Lidell has done for funk – straight delivery that’s only ever so slightly given the traditional flanger treatment - consciously at the other end of the spectrum to what this duo have delieverd in the past. A cockle-warming, feelgood excursion from two undisputed masters.
Boomkat
Label: Nonplace
Catalog#: NON18
Format: Audio CD
Country: Germany
Track Title
1 Funeral March
2 Crime In The Pale Moonlight
3 How Long Is The Wrong Way ?
4 Down The River
5 Music Is Our Secret Code
6 Tiny Tina
7 Hope To Hear Back Soon, Honey
8 Peninsula
9 In My Car (Single Version)
10 In My Car (Bolt Mix)
11 How Long Is The Wrong Way ? (Extended)
12 Crime In The Pale Moonlight (Short Version)
Comments
New surprising album from crazy Flangers, Swing/Jazz in the style of the twenties with an electronic rug.....great
Also for Jazz Lovers
A special dedication To Sat
Another Flanger fan :music: :D