Bitter Funeral Beer

by Bengt Berger / Bitter Funeral Beer Band

Bitter Funeral Beer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 20:42
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Incorporating the funeral music traditions of the Lo-Dagaa people of Northern Ghana, this expansive ensemble piece merges West African polyrhythms with European free improvisation. Don Cherry notably contributes to the intense, spiritually charged atmosphere, creating a vital document of cross-cultural jazz synthesis.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, avant-garde, ritualistic, improvisation, percussive, improvisational, fusion, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Bitter Funeral Beer
  2. Blekete
  3. Chetu
  4. Tongsi

Credits

  • Bitter Funeral Beer Band - primary artist
  • Don Cherry - primary artist, trumpet [pocket trumpet], soloist, trumpet [pocket trumpet]
  • Christer Both茅n - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, bells
  • Mattias Helld茅n - cello, talking drum [dondos]
  • Bosse Skoglund - drum [kagan], drums
  • Sigge Krantz - drum [kagan], electric guitar, bass, electric bass
  • Thomas Gartz - drum [kidi], violin, tenor saxophone, drums, soloist, tenor saxophone
  • Anita Livstrand - drum [sogo], shekere [axatse], voice, bells, soloist, voice, bell, vocal
  • Bengt Berger - Primary Artist

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