Cease to Matter Burnt Friedman & Daniel Dodd-Ellis

• 1Testmaze04:07
• 2Skies Okay Blue05:38
• 3Inward Sun03:31
• 4Cease to Matter03:03
• 5Cycles04:13
• 6Kidney One02:25
• 7Boundary Loss03:28
• 8On Her Plate03:37
• 9Cease to Matter 202:52
• 10Inward Sun 202:50
• 11Silberne Libelle02:05
• Total Runtime37:49

Info for Cease to Matter

Moods and impressions from 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 (“Un-gehör-sam”, Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt) – are pitted against the normative interpretational supremacy of musical world maps.

The voice of Daniel Dodd-Ellis, a Berlin-based performer and vocalist, was first heard on Burnt Friedman’s 2007 album First Night Forever (non22). 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).

Robbo, voice (on intro, track 1)
Daniel Schröter, electric bass (on tracks 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Hayden Chisholm, reeds (on track 5)

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