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Live Review

Fred Frith's solo performance at the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra's Concert Hall

Read "Fred Frith's solo performance at the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra's Concert Hall" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Fred Frith The Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra's Concert Hall Skopje, Macedonia February 21, 2018 Nothing about guitarist Fred Frith's quiet demeanor as he walks on stage towards his guitar would give any indication of what will follow soon and where he will take the music and the audience with him. And during the performance at the Concert Hall of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, this master improviser and master conceptualist has shown the audience why he is ...

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Album Review

Fred Frith Trio: Another Day in Fucking Paradise

Read "Another Day in Fucking Paradise" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The album title may equate to what a disgruntled co-worker may utter at the office on a Monday morning. Yes, some of us have used this line, but master improviser, guitarist Fred Frith's prowess and boundless creativity is the antithesis to anything that may cause a semblance of drudgery. Jason Hoopes' bursting e-bass lines and Jordan Glenn's vigorous drumming and colorful accents supply all the ammo Frith needs via his speed riffing, unearthly effects and keen use of ...

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Fred Frith / Darren Johnston: Everybody's Somebody's Nobody

Read "Everybody's Somebody's Nobody" reviewed by John Sharpe


Here's a West Coast entrant to the slim body of guitar/trumpet duets from iconoclastic strummer Fred Frith and trumpeter Darren Johnston. It collects 11 short cuts from two studio sessions into a three-quarter hour program. They're not averse to co-opting rhythms (Frith) or melodic figures (Johnston), meaning that what we have here can be termed the accessible avant-garde. Each jointly crafted extravaganza explores a different mood. They ring the changes both between numbers but also within them, especially in some ...

Album Review

Fred Frith, Darren Johnston: Everybody/s Somebody/s Nobody

Read "Everybody/s Somebody/s Nobody" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


La sensazione è quella di trovarsi all'interno di una navicella che vaga lassù, nello spazio. I suoni giungono ovattati, i movimenti sono lenti e rallentati benché fluidi, vi è un certo distacco dalla crudezza della realtà terrena come se si fluttuasse in una dimensione temporale che segue altri ritmi, altre storie. Talvolta ci si imbatte in turbolenze che scuotono dal rassicurante torpore, i sensi si allertano, si verificano anomalie che portano un po' di disordine nel normale corso delle cose. ...

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Fred Frith, Barry Guy: Backscatter Bright Blue

Read "Backscatter Bright Blue" reviewed by Vic Albani


Con la doverosa e ormai classica intraprendenza, l'intelligente Intakt elvetica ha chiamato due universi musicali distanti fra loro come quelli di Fred Frith e di Barry Guy nello studio di Willy Strehler per quella che potremmo sì definire una session d'improvvisazione ma che porta con sé anche un gradiente di creatività semplicemente straordinario. Quando c'è di mezzo quel genio del signor Frith questa, di base, si chiama normalità. Guy parla di questa incisione come di “sillogismo musicale," frutto dell'ascolto reciproco ...

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Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners Jazz FestivalBelfast, Ireland March 25-28 , 2015 Brilliant Corners may not be the biggest jazz festival in Northern Ireland--that accolade belongs to the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival--but in just three editions it can already lay claim to being the best. Eschewing the populist acts that characterize Derry's sprawling jazz festival, promoter Moving On Music has quickly established Brilliant Corners as the home of new and cutting edge ...

Album Review

Fred Frith Cosa Brava: The Letter

Read "The Letter" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Se c'è un musicista che possa davvero fregiarsi del titolo di signore del rock creativo questi non può essere altri che Fred Frith. Il leggendario chitarrista britannico ormai da anni stabilitosi negli Stati Uniti (a parte le sue ultime incisioni, i più giovani vadano ad ascoltare tutta la discografia della vita precedente, leggi Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew e Keep the Dog, per citare i più vividi e fondamentali riferimenti) dà alle stampe il capitolo secondo di questa nuova avventura chiamata ...


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