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Richter 858

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: 858 1 Through 8

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Bill Frisell: Richter 858

Read "Richter 858" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Commissioned to create music for a book project on the German painter Gerhard Richter, guitarist Bill Frisell opened his book of guitar techniques to enhance the painter's art. Given instructions and eight Richter images, Frisell composed pieces for the 858 Strings Trio of Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang, and Hank Roberts, a unit which can ...

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Bill Frisell: Richter 858

Read "Richter 858" reviewed by John Kelman


For those who think, based on recent recordings, that guitarist Bill Frisell has lost his edge, two new recordings should go a long way to restoring faith in Frisell's inestimable abilities as a composer and performer. They also assert that, like them or not, the Americana, world music, and groove-centric concerns of his most recent Nonesuch ...

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Bill Frisell: Richter 858

Read "Richter 858" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Richter 858 is a commissioned work, setting guitarist Bill Frisell up with the job of creating music to accompany eight paintings for a book project on German painter Gerhard Richter. One of Richter's main techniques is to use a squeegee to smear paint over an aluminum surface. Frisell captures this sound--the squeak and squeal, the shrillness--perfectly ...


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