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Fred Frith Discography
Fred Frith appears on over 400 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the ''Discography of Fred Frith'' by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier. Studio albums * '' Guitar Solos'' (1974, LP, Caroline, UK) * ''Gravity'' (1980, LP, Ralph, US) * '' Speechless'' (1981, LP, Ralph, US) * ''Cheap at Half the Price'' (1983, LP, Ralph, US) * ''Quartets'' (1994, CD, RecRec, Switzerland) * '' Clearing'' (2001, CD, Tzadik, US) * '' Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001'' (2002, CD, Fred, UK) * '' Eleventh Hour'' (2005, 2xCD, Winter & Winter, Germany) * '' To Sail, to Sail'' (2008, CD, Tzadik, US) * '' Clearing Customs'' (2011, CD, Intakt, Switzerland) Music for Dance * '' The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre)'' (1988, 2xLP, RecRe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clearing Customs
''Clearing Customs'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is based on a week of recordings and performances in November and December 2007 at a New Jazz Meeting at SWR, a radio station in southwest Germany. Two hour-long national broadcasts were made. The album was released by Intakt Records in February 2011. The music is based on a 75-minute composition by Frith, and improvised by all the performers. It uses a "graphic structural model" that links "diverse types of musical events" on a time line. Traditional jazz instruments were used, plus Asian guzheng and tablas, and electronics. Frith drew on English theatre maker Peter Brook's approach of bringing together performers from completely different cultural backgrounds. According to Frith, a key aspect of the music is the fact that the performers were meeting for the first time. He reflected: "The expression 'clearing customs' had multiple meanings for me – 'crossing borders', of cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Top Of His Head
''The Top of His Head'' is a 1989 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Mettler. The film stars starring Stephen Ouimette as Gus, a satellite dish salesman whose life is turned upside down when he meets Lucy (Christie MacFadyen), a politically radical performance artist who is on the run from mysterious people pursuing her. The film premiered in the Perspective Canada program at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival, 1989 Festival of Festivals. Cast * Christie MacFadyen as Lucy Ripley * Stephen Ouimette as Gus Victor * David Fox (actor), David Fox as Uncle Hugo * Gary Reineke as Berge (pursuer) * Julian Richings as Robert (henchman) * Joey Hardin as Joey (henchman) * Cherie Camp as Telephone Operator * Nora Currie as Telephone Operator Production The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, in the fall of 1987.Greg Quill, "Dream of a movie a nightmare to make". ''Toronto Star'', November 22, 1987. The film's soundtrack, ''The Top of His Head (soundt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crammed Discs
Crammed Discs is an independent record label whose output blends world music, rock, pop, and electronica. Based in Brussels, Belgium, Crammed was founded in 1980 by Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and has since released around 375 albums and 275 singles, working with artists from all over the world (from Western Europe and the US to the Balkans and North & Central Africa, from South America to the Middle East and Japan). Crammed Discs is run by Marc Hollander (A&R) with Hanna Gorjaczkowska (artist development, marketing, distribution & art direction) and Vincent Kenis (producer, director of the Congotronics Series). Marc Hollander and Crammed Discs received the WOMEX award in 2004 at the World Music Expo international music trade fair, for being "one of the seminal players on the world music field". However, the label has always systematically worked with electronic music, indie pop and rock artists, and "doesn't see itself as a ''world music label'': it just happens to enjoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Top Of His Head (soundtrack)
''The Top of His Head'' is a soundtrack by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1989 Canadian comedy-drama film, '' The Top of His Head''. Frith wrote and composed all the music, with the exception of "This Old Earth", which was written and sung by Jane Siberry, and a cover of "The Way You Look Tonight". The music was recorded at l'Office National du Film, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in August and September 1988, and was released on LP and CD in 1989 by the Belgian independent label, Crammed Discs. The CD release contained two extra tracks, "Driving to the Train" and "The Long Drive". Siberry's song, "This Old Earth", was nominated for Best Original Song at the 11th Genie Awards, 1990 Genie Awards. Siberry rerecorded the song as "Something About Trains", and it appeared on her 1989 album ''Bound by the Beauty''. Reception In a review at AllMusic, Ted Mills described ''The Top of His Head'' soundtrack as "[a] less aggressive work compared to [Frith's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propaganda (Fred Frith Album)
''Propaganda'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises 21 pieces for dance written by Frith and commissioned by Matthew Maguire for the Creation Production Company. It was first performed at La Mama ETC in New York City in May 1987. The suite was recorded by Kramer at Noise New York in April 1987 and released on Side 4 of the LP release of Frith's 1988 solo album, ''The Technology of Tears''. It was omitted from the CD releases of the album. The ''Propaganda'' suite was reworked and remastered in February 2015 by Myles Boisen, and was released by Fred Records in November 2015. Track listing All tracks composed by Fred Frith. Sources: AllMusic, Discogs, SquidCo Personnel *Fred Frith – all instruments, voice Sources: Discogs, SquidCo Sound and artwork Recorded at Noise New York, April 1987; Mastered at Headless Buddhna Mastering Labs, Oakland, California, February 2015. * Kramer – recording engineer (1987) *Myles Bois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Days (The Amanda Loops)
''Field Days (The Amanda Loops)'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises 14 pieces for dance written by Frith for choreographer Amanda Miller and the Nederland Dans Theater. The album was released by Fred Records in November 2015. Track listing All tracks composed by Fred Frith. Sources: AllMusic, Discogs, SquidCo Personnel *Fred Frith – all other instruments * Carla Kihlstedt – Nyckelharpa, violin *Kiku Day – Shakuhachi * Daan Vandewalle – piano * William Winant – percussion * Lotte Anker – saxophone * Arte Sax Quartet – saxophones *Arditti Quartet – strings Sources: Discogs, SquidCo Sound and artwork Recorded at Guerilla Recordings, Oakland, California, 2011. *Myles Boisen – engineer *Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
''Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6)'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, and is the sixth of a series of Music for Dance albums he made. ''Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air'' consists of three commissions by three choreographers, each sharing, according to Frith, "a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction". "Nowhere" and "Sideshow" were written by Frith for violinist Carla Kihlstedt, and are performed by Frith, Kihlstedt and others. "Thin Air" features Frith, Hande Erdem (violin) and Theresa Wong (cello). Reception In a review for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the album a "genre-busting disc that catholically references a variety of styles, but ultimately transcends all of its sources." He noted that "even when he's being lyrical... Frith skews his music to the left of center; distinctly personal even when eminently hummable." Exposé Online's Peter Thelen praised "Thin Air," stating that although it "encompass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy End Problem
''The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance Volume 5)'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, and is the fifth of a series of Music for Dance albums he made. It comprises two suites composed in 2003 by Frith "for flute, bassoon, gu zheng, percussion, violin and electronics" and was recorded in 2003 and 2004. Background The two suites on the album, "Imitation" and "The Happy End Problem" were composed by Frith for small ensembles of six and seven musicians. They were originally commissioned in 2003 by choreographer Amanda Miller for two dances for her The Pretty Ugly Dance Company. Both suites premiered at the Stadttheater in Freiburg, Germany, "The Happy End Problem" in May 2003 and "Imitation" in April 2004. In "The Happy End Problem" Frith drew on elements from Igor Stravinsky's 1910 ballet, ''Firebird Suite''. "Imitation" focused on Oriental elements and played on the Western world's perception of Japan. At the time, the shakuhachi pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accidental (album)
''Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3)'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the third of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and was recorded between December 1995 and January 1996 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany. The album was released on CD in March 2002 on Fred Records and was the first release in Frith's archival release program on the record label. Background ''Accidental'' was commissioned in 1995 by the British choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton for the dance piece "Rogue Tool", with funding provided by the British Council through the British/Israeli cultural initiative, BI Arts. "Rogue Tool" was premiered by the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel in February 1996. Frith constructed the music on ''Accidental'' using a principle he called "block-melodies" and he incorporated random events, or "accidents", into the compositions, including " found sounds" and field recordings, to trigger new pattern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recommended Records
Recommended Records (RēR) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler with Nick Hobbs in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels. In 1982 Cutler established November Books, the publishing wing of Recommended Records, and between 1985 and 1997, Recommended Records and November Books published ''RēR Quarterly'', a "quarterly" sound-magazine edited by Cutler. In 1989 Recommended Records became known as RēR Megacorp with a turnover of £180,000 in 1994. History When English avant-rock group Henry Cow toured Europe between 1975 and 1977 they encountered many bands in a similar situation to their own: they were forced to operate outside the music industry that refused to recognise their music. In 1978 these groups got together and formed Rock in Opposition (RIO). To provide a record label and distribution network for these ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Previous Evening
''The Previous Evening (Music for Dance Volume 4)'' is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It is the fourth of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and was recorded in Germany in 1993 and 1996. ''The Previous Evening'' was composed by Frith and is divided into three parts, in which Frith pays homage to three contemporary classical composers, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. The CD booklet also contains the following dedication: "This recording is dedicated to my father, Donald Frith, whose support has been and continues to be warm and unwavering." Frith, Fred. ''The Previous Evening'' (1997, Recommended Records). CD booklet. Background ''The Previous Evening'' was originally commissioned by United States choreographer Amanda Miller. Part I was premiered by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells, London in December 1993. Parts II and III were premiered by the Pretty Ugly Dance Company in 1996, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
