Live in Frankfurt 82 on vinyl
Bitter Funeral Beer Band
” It is the convergence towards a music without boundaries”
June 25, 2018: The Italian label Black Sweat Records has released “Live in Frankfurt 82” on vinyl! It sold out directly.
March 15, 2019: After one year Black Sweat has pressed another batch of LP’s but they are also sold out now. They plan to release once more in the beginning of 2024.
This is how Black Sweat Records present the album:
“First of all, Bengt Berger – a pioneer of the Swedish underground of the 70’s and historical member of bands such as the Archimedes Badkar and Arbete Och Fritid – is a versatile drummer-percussionist and well-educated ethno-musicologist with several research sojourns in India and Ghana. Deeply influenced by Hindustani, Carnatic and West Africa music, he founded in 1980 the Bitter Funeral Beer Band, an ensemble of 12 elements, basing his ideas on the traditional funeral music of the people of Lo-Birifor, in the northern region of Ghana.
The marriage between this afro polyrhythmic roots, with the spiritual jazz of the eternal Don Cherry and the indian sarod of K. Sridhar is in the direction to a pan-internationalism of profound spirituality, which blends different geographical traditions in a single contemplative gaze. It is the convergence towards a music without boundaries, where every instrumental voice shines and is well fermented and integrated. Music is unity.”
They have also put the album for you to listen on Bandcamp
Our original CD with Don Cherry & K. Sridhar, Live in Frankfurt 82:
CE09 – Released on October 16, 2007
Bitter Funeral Beer Band
Bitter Funeral Beer Band was a unique band with an early world music with an own identity that mixes african funeral music and improvisation with a nordic touch that has not existed before or after the few years in the 80’s that the band was active. Led by Bengt Berger who had studied a couple of years in Ghana, the band based a lot of the music on the funeral music concept of the Lo-Birifor people of northern Ghana.The band did its first cd, Bitter Funeral Beer, on ECM and then one more, Praise Drumming (vinyl only) on the Swedish Dragon label.
Our second album, Praise Drumming
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