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Skeleton Crew

Michel Levasseur Leaves the Building

by Mike Chamberlain
May 9, 2023

The run-up to this year's 39th edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV, or Victo) has been anything but routine. First, it was announced in December that the City of Victoriaville had rescinded the festival's contract for the use of the Colisée des Bois-Francs arena as one of the festival's two main ...

Fred Frith - Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons To Rest

by John Sharpe
April 22, 2023

It seems Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva is riding the crest of a wave, following acclaimed collaborations with the likes of saxophonists Anthony Braxton and Mats Gustafsson and pianist Kaja Draksler. It is a trajectory only likely to be reinforced by her alliance with British guitarist Fred Frith on Laying Demons To Rest. They've been playing ...

Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds

By Skeleton Crew

Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2006
Track listing: Disc One: Que Viva / Onwards and Upwards; The Way Things Fall; Not My Shoes; The Washington Post; We're Still Free; Victoryville; Los Colitos / Life at the Top / Learn to Talk; Factory Song; It's Fine; Zach's Flag; Sick as a Parrot; Automatic Pilot; Hook; Killing Time. Disc Two: The Country of Blinds; The Border; The Hand That Bites; Dead Sheep; Bingo; Man or Monkey; Foot in Hole; Hot Field; The Birds of Japan; You May Find a Bed; Sparrow Song; Safety in Numbers; Howdywhoola Too; Second Rate; New Orleans Stomp; Hasta la Victoria.

Skeleton Crew: Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds

by Matt Cibula
February 26, 2006

Caution: this is extremely challenging listening. Fred Frith and Tom Cora's twisted pop/jazz/Americana/punk band Skeleton Crew managed all of two albums in the mid-1980s, and no wonder why--they flip back and forth wildly between dark anarchic anti-songs and weirdo hooky new-wavey stuff, sometimes even within the same song. Learn to Talk dates from 1984, and sounds ...