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Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by John Kelman
Probably the most curious reaction guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, when it debuted at the 2008 International Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, was that it was “too melodic." Detractors of that show will likely be equally nonplussed by the group's overdue debut disc, Ragged Atlas, but it'll be their loss, as Frith's first “rock band" in ...
Fred Frith: Mapping the Further Reaches
by Nic Jones
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith occupies a unique niche. As a charter member of Henry Cow, a band for which improvisation was always an integral part of musical expression, he was partly responsible for some of the most radical music ever to have emerged from beneath the rock umbrella.So much so, in fact, that ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Mark Corroto
In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
The Opposite: Interwined
by Eyal Hareuveni
This Swedish sextet was initiated by Malmö-based French keyboardist Loïc Dequidt and drummer Peter Nilsson--the latter one of the leaders of the Malmö-based Kopasetic Label's musicians collective, which investigates improvisational interplay through a democratic, collective group approach based on a dynamic rhythmic concepts that lean on Indian, African and Cuban traditions. Their instincts proved right since ...
Jorrit Dijkstra: Pillow Circles
by Troy Collins
An international summit meeting, Pillow Circles joins four American jazz musicians with four Dutch improvisers. Similar in feel to his Flatlands Collective, this effort finds Dutch expatriate and multi-instrumentalist Jorrit Dijkstra paying homage to a handful of artists who have inspired him, with each piece dedicated to an individual. Bringing an empathetic familiarity to ...
Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine
by John Sharpe
Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith. His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem>'s Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking ...
Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air
By Fred Frith
Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2009
Track listing: Nowhere: to run; near; to be seen; else; can compare; getting; going; to hide. Sideshow: clearing the throat; show time; on or in the wing; act two; angels with thirty faces; in which all may have been revealed; ghost of BB; Ms. Mac drinks and goes home. Thin Air: ladders; screened; plastic; running; falling; fast feet.
Still Urban / The Big Picture
By Fred Frith
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
Still Urban Part 1 - 9
01. Part 1: Landscape With or Without Edges;
02. Part 2: Door Won't Open, Door Won't Close;
03. Part 3: Nervous When I Turned;
04. Part 4: Family Ties;
05. Part 5: Science to Someone Living;
06. Part 6: Glass and Mirror Cut to Size;
07. Part 7: Everywhere Hastily We Followed;
08. Part 8: Two Blinkings of an Eyelid;
09. Part 9: Near Future Faith;
The Big Picture
Part 1 - 6:
01. The Big Picture Part 1;
02. The Big Picture Part 2;
03. The Big Picture Part 3;
04. The Big Picture Part 4;
05. The Big Picture Part 5;
06. The Big Picture Part 6.
Freedom in Fragments
07. Introduction: The Power of Prayer;
08. Some Assembly Required (soloist: B. Hofstetter);
09. Hopscotch (for John Zorn);
10. Confess;
11. Song and Dance;
12. Void Where Prohibited (soloist: S. Armbruster);
13. Rosali's Song;
14. Red Rag;
15. Significant Restrictions Apply (soloist: A. Formenti);
16. Boyan's Problem;
17. Kick It;
18. Nostalgia;
19. Batteries Not Included (soloist: B. Kappeler);
20. T. Square Park Lark (for Frank Zappa);
21. The Power of Prayer: Coda.
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Fred Frith: Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air
by John Kelman
His sixth album of music for dance, Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air continues multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith's longstanding collaboration with Carla Kihlstedt. The violinist was heard most recently on Frith's previous dance disc, The Happy End Problem (ReR Megacorp, 2006), and in performance as part of his well-received Art Bears Songbook, with Art Bears percussionist/lyricist/co-founder Chris ...
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