NONPLACE label founder BURNT FRIEDMAN is one half of FLANGER with UWE SCHMIDT (ATOM HEART, ATOM , SENOR COCONUT), and JAKI LIEBEZEIT should needno introduction as the legendary drummer for CAN. The German duo's secret rhythms expertly skirt the boundaries of genre and style - jazz, dub, funk, African, acoustic, electric, etc - and stubbornly refuse to commit to any single one. Liebezeit provides the acoustic beat backbone, his drumming stark and seemingly simplistic and, as always, easy to identify. Friedman, also a drummer among other things (he's usually credited simply with 'other instruments'), supplies the digital marrow and his signature attention-to-detail production to bring it all together and make it all shine. These tracks don't stand still but they're in no hurry to get anywhere in particular either: the music is deceptively lazy in its fluidity and thoroughly addictive in due time. "The Librarian" is the lone vocal track (DAVID SYLVIAN / STEVE JANSEN / BURNT FRIEDMAN).