Bitter Funeral Beer Band was a unique band that existed during the first half of the eighties.
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 on the swedish Dragon label.
Country & Eastern will release two live concerts by the band on october 16, 2007:
CE 09 Live in Frankfurt 82, that was recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk at 18 Deutsches Jazzfestival at Alte Oper in Frankfurt with Don Cherry and the indian sarod maestro K. Sridhar as guests, and
CEX09 Live in Nuernberg 84 which will be released as an mp3-album only.