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01. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Testmaze
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02. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Skies Okay Blue
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03. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Inward Sun
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04. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Cease to Matter
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05. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Boundary Loss
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06. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Cycles
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07. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Kidney One
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08. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - On Her Plate
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09. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Cease to Matter 2
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10. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Inward Sun 2 (CD-only)
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11. BURNT FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS - Silberne Libelle (CD-only)
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ARTIST
FRIEDMAN & DANIEL DODD-ELLIS, BURNT
TITLE
Cease to Matter
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
NONPLACE
CATALOG #
NON 038CD
NON 038CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2014
The impact of these eleven sound poems, or poetry tracks, derives less from intentional meaning and symbolism than from fortuitous coincidences, cut-ups, and flashes of inspiration in the course of handling the audio material. Rather than a composed narrative, the tracks reflect the inner reality of the authors
Burnt Friedman
and
Daniel Dodd-Ellis
. Moods and impressions from B. Friedman's Sub-Saharan concert tour in 2013 as well as fragments of memories of an imaginary future fuse together in the music and text of all eleven tracks. These responses to real-life "kpafuca" ("things falling apart") -- conditions in African metropolises -- collapse into grooves and phrases reminiscent of
Chris Marker
's sci-fi apocalypticism (
La Jette
,
Sans Soleil
). This polyphony of non-places also includes the spirit of sound explorers such as the musical-ethnological practitioners
Hartmut Geerken
and
Roman Bunka
(
Embryo
), whose visions and musical activities refuse to succumb to reductionist and essentialist staging. In
Cease to Matter
, Friedman intuitively pits the liberating power of noise, of über-mensch-maschinen music, against those cultural landscapes repeatedly automatically inscribed into music. Odd beats and random technical defects -- that is to say, disobedience -- are pitted against the normative interpretational supremacy of musical world maps. The voice of Daniel Dodd-Ellis, a Berlin-based performer and vocalist from Texas, was first heard on Burnt Friedman's 2007 album
First Night Forever
. The lyrics stem from both artists and were cut-up and re-assembled several times over by Friedman during production in 2013 and 2014. The line "Skies are blue inside of you" comes from
Aldous Huxley
's novel
Brave New World
, which appeared in 1932. Tracks 04 and 09 ("Cease to Matter") contain a piano sample edit based on a composition by
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
(1872-1949).
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