CAN drummer Jaki Liebezeit (born 1938) and electronic music producer Burnt Friedman share a preference for less common rhythms.
The artists have consciously turned away from Western European, Anglo-American regulated rhythm in order to expand their formal language to include all globally available rhythms. Their odd rhythms, arranged in cycles, interlock sequences, drums and synthesizers with breathtaking precision; the played and the programmed. A trance experience beyond the usual techno schemes. With the help of repetitions and variations, the duo builds a modern, minimal ritual music from jazz, world and electronics. A great moment of timeless musical culture with one of the most influential drummers in the world.

Jaki Liebezeit: “It possibly incorporated many elements of this earth without featuring any specific elements. The individual elements have been made abstract, no ethnic or national character remains, there’s nothing typical to Seville or Istanbul, but the properties held in common by all types of music have been abstracted and processed.”

If it is still possible to establish a link with his past as a member of CAN, then it lies in the spirit with which he seeks, then as now, new musical forms. The post-CAN Liebezeit not only created his own cycle-based drum system but also developed an innovative drumset that concentrates on the essentials and permits a mode of playing that was already theoretically honed to be physically implemented in optimum fashion.

Friedman’s programmed or played sequences and placeless sound particles adhere to the same understanding of rhythm, allowing the two heterogeneous sound generators to perfectly intermesh and form a unit – both acoustically and electronically, in terms of improvisation and concept alike.

All songs written by Friedman/Liebezeit
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PLAY LOUD! (LIVE) MUSIC SERIES

001 A Summer Evening with Floating Di Morel
002 Doc Schoko: Live at Volksbühne
003 FM Einheit + Irmler: Live at Berghain
004 Faust: Live at Klangbad
005 Gebrüder Teichmann: Live at Maria
006 Christy & Emily: Live at Klangbad
007 Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers: Live at Marie-Antoinette
008 Camera: Live at HBC
009 Friedman + Liebezeit: Live at Festsaal Kreuzberg
010 Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit: Live at Volksbühne
011 Guru Guru: Live at Lido
012 Gisela Oberbeck & Limpe Fuchs: Animare
013 Lime Fuchs: Live at Klangbad Festival
014 Die Regierung: Live in Essen
015: Anima in Two Films
016 Die Regierung: Live at Berghain
017: Locust Fudge & Friends: Live at Privatclub
018: Alan Vega in Two Films: Live at Rockpalast + Alan Suicide
019: Martin Rev: Live in Berlin

Up-coming:
Atari Teenage Riot, Barbara Manning, and many more.
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CONCEPT BEHIND THE SERIES:

The "play loud! (live) music series" parts from three ideas, Alan Lomax's work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel's BBC radio sessions and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as, Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn and Pennebaker. Filming live shows meant not to do it in a TV style but in a very personal, intuitive and adventurous style – nothing is staged for filming. You go along as it happens. Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot without any edits. Some critics have labeled it as "filmed paintings/painted films".

play loud!’s music films have been called: “raw”, “rough”, “canny”, “straightforward”, “adventurous”, “witty”, “insightful”, “direct”, “non-tricksy”, “economic”, “minimal”, “unpretentious handheld camera work”, "artful film paintings" …
play loud!’s intention is to furthermore create an extensive archive of interesting popular music that includes also the possibility to screen/stream material that comes from other sources.

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LINKS:
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/play-loud-live-music-series/227-friedman-liebezeit-live-at-festsaal-kreuzberg.html
https://camerafeatmichaelrotherdietermoebius.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-hbc
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/19-play-loud-live-music-series