Kalle Tikas – Rhodes, Pro One, guitar
Heikki Tikas – bass
Henri Hinno – percussion (1,3)
Arno Kalbus – percussion (5,6)

cover art by Raul Keller

"1999" was originally released on CD-R and is out of stock.

The current reissue of "1999" by the Estonain underground jazzrock group BF contains recordings from 1999, as the group was into composing music for several films and experimenting with audiovisual environments. Their music has moved further away from the hard blues into the realms of more jazzy atmosphere as the group renamed themselves BF (ex Beggars Farm) reflecting their change of musical philosophy.

BF music in 19999 transformed into musical themes played on concerts as long compositions, taking the audience, as well as themselves into musical realms far from the concertsettings into unknown vibrating creative substances.

BF is at its best a live band, whose concerts can always offer a surprise by bringing in new musicians, preferring more often one show projects to long term musical relationships with brothers Heikki and Kalle Tikas froming the core of the sound on bass and keyboards respectively.

This selection includes video footage shot at Writer's House. Tallinn in March 1999, where I collaborated with BF, screening the film "Propaganda", a concert that provided the soundtrack for the film.

(R. Keller)

1999. aasta tähistab BF-i jaoks perioodi, mil grupp oli aktiivselt kaasatud mitmetesse audiovisuaalsetesse projektidesse, komponeerides muusikat J. Kilmi filmile "Tähesõit", mis ilmus osanakassetist "Kass kukub käppadele", segades oma kontsertidesse livevideot ning luues muusika allakirjutanu filmile "Propaganda" (ilmunud limiteeritud koguses MKDK Recordsi alt)

Helikeelelt kaugeneb BF-i muusika jätkuvalt bluesisuunalt ning läheneb enam jazzrockile ning jazzipõhisele improvisatsioonile. Muutusi ansambli loomepoliitikas kajastab ka krüptilise tähekombinatsiooni BF kasutuselevõtmine senise Beggars Farmi asemel.

BF-i 1999. aasta loomingut iseloomustab uudsete värvikõlade ja kooslustega eksperimenteerimine, endiselt kujunevad nende kontserdid pikkadeks temaatilisteks rännakuteks, mis viivad nii kuulajaid kui ka neid ennast eemale kontserdisaalist, lähemale tundmatutele muusikalistele allikatele.

Käesolev kogumik on plaadi teine tiraaž, millele on lisatud J. Kilmi poolt ülesvõetud videopilt Kirjanike Maja saalis toimunud kontserdilt, kus esilinastus la tehniliste viperuste kiuste "Propaganda".

(R. Keller)