B.FRIEDMAN/J.LIEBEZE

NONPLACE label founder BURNT FRIEDMAN is one half of FLANGER with UWE SCHMIDT (ATOM HEART, ATOM(tm), SENOR COCONUT), and JAKI LIEBEZEIT should need no introduction as the legendary drummer for CAN.
The German duo's secret rhythms expertly skirt the boundaries of genre and style - jazz, dub, funk, African, acoustic, electric, etc - and stubbornly refuse to commit to any single one. Liebezeit provides the acoustic beat backbone, his drumming stark and seemingly simplistic and, as always, easy to identify. Friedman, also a drummer among other things (he's usually credited simply with 'other instruments'), supplies the digital marrow and his signature attention-to-detail production to bring it all together and make it all shine.
These tracks don't stand still but they're in no hurry to get anywhere in particular either: the music is deceptively lazy in its fluidity and thoroughly addictive in due time.
"The Librarian" is the lone vocal track (DAVID SYLVIAN / STEVE JANSEN / BURNT FRIEDMAN).
BRAINWASHED "Secret Rhythms 2 is addictive, and the more I listen, the more I want to listen to it, its predecessors and its hopeful successors"

B.FRIEDMAN/J.LIEBEZE - Secret Rhythms 2