This is the follow-up to Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit's first collaborative album Secret Rhythms, which came out on Nonplace in 2002. Employing the universal rhythm of the 4/4 bar, Friedman & Liebezeit have been playing live all over the world, improving their cyclic grooves and creating new ones. The 8 tracks on Secret Rhythms 2 are not overt spectacular high-brow arrangement hellraisers. While being tight and containing a large amount of curious suspense, these secret rhythms are playful, open, transparent, sequential - hypnotic even. In this respect, Friedman & Liebezeit lean to the world music side, without giving in to the temptation of any jazz instrumentation or even improvisation. Nonplace. 2006.