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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] |
