Bleep

Prolific percussionist, producer Burnt Friedmann and the German born, Santiago de Chile based, Atom TM (aka Uwe Schmidt) congregate once more as Flanger for this first full LP in a decade, landing down in a fug of jazz-club smoke on Friedmann's own Nonplace label. Flanger released a string of albums on Ninja Tune in the late nineties / early noughties and now find their perfect muse, influenced by the dark jazz arts brought fast forward into 2015. Both artists bring something unique to well worn jazz tropes. Friedmann - a master percussionist - winds up polyrhythmic patterns to Lollopy Dripper, inspired by West Africa, while Schmidt adds playful glitch electronics and FX (think Jan Jelinek, Pole) to a heady brew that sits strangely, beautifully into this genre of one. Also features some prime sax skronk from frequent collaborator, New Zealand's Hayden Chisholm.