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Artist:	FLANGER
Title:	Outer Space/Inner Space
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 061CD

"Once again two of the most prolific producers in electronic music, Atom Heart & Bernd Friedmann, team up as Flanger to create 8 more tracks of avant-garde electro-jazz. As Flanger the two pair up to create electronic jazz in a way that blurs the lines between analog & electronics. Between them both they play all instruments and then mash it all up in the computer. One minute you think you're listening to vintage Miles, Marc Moulin, or Nucleus (the good Nucleus aka Ian Carr, not the new crappy Nucleus), and the next you're listening to some weird techno bridge in the track which all crashes back into jazz territory... nice."

Artist:	FLANGER
Title:	Spirituals
Label:	NONPLACE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	NON 018CD

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.

Artist:	FLANGER
Title:	Nuclear Jazz (Templates/Midnight Sound)
Label:	NONPLACE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	NON 021CD

Flanger is Uwe Schmidt (Atom TM, Señor Coconut) and Burnt Friedman's electro-jazz project. Nuclear Jazz is a two-in-one, edited and freshly mastered reissue of Flanger's future jazz classics, Templates (1999) and Midnight Sound (2000). Nonplace offers a 79-minute (carefully edited down from around 100 minutes of original music) assembly of probably the most elaborate and witty electronic collaboration to date. Ten years ago, in December 1997, Atom TM and Burnt Friedman teamed up in Santiago to compose their first record, Templates. Equipped with a few electronic production devices: sampler, sequencer and keyboard, the duo managed to produce the ultimate organic, non-repetitive soundscape that blurred the borders between real, fake and hyper-real. Songs may start with an accumulation of shortest possible noise fragments derived from self-made instrumental samples -- programmed with the deliberate avoidance of repetition -- developing into the acoustic sound of a real jazz trio playing live. Templates was a simulation of small group jazz. Only one year later the duo decided to continue with their programmed jazz improvisations and connected their "brain-to-midi interfaces" in sunny Santiago again a year later. With Midnight Sound they added Latin flavors wherever they could and expanded their palette, not only with their wealth of ideas but also with their ability to "humanize" the sound of the samples, coupled with the funkiness of their music. With electrically defamiliarized instrument set-ups, Midnight Sound ignores all the stylistic pigeonholes that critics love squeezing musicians into. There seems to be nothing Flanger is reluctant to touch upon. Bolstered by a rare bonus track, it's time to refamiliarize yourself with these two electro-space-jazz classics.

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