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The Sugar Factory

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007

Article: My Playlist

01. Mary Clare Brzytwa - Antoine Berthiaume - Bebe Donkey (Ambiances Magnétiques - 2007). Splendidi bordoni, ambience nervosa e scattante. MC suona il rock! 02. So Percussion - Works by Evan Ziporyn and David Lang (Cantaloupe - 2004). Sto scrivendo un pezzo per questo fantastico quartetto di percussioni e l’ascolto di questo disco mi aiuta molto. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Fred Frith: From Metal Head To Space Cowboy

by Mark Corroto
June 20, 2007

It is impossible to pigeonhole the music of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith. His early work with Henry Cow and Art Bears asked to be collected in the prog-rock bin, yet its improvising nature signaled the avant-garde. Later he was to be a member of Skeleton Crew with Tom Cora and Zeena Parkins, Curlew, Bill Laswell's Material and ...

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Article: Album Review

Fred Frith/Chris Cutler: Issue Two

Read "Issue Two" reviewed by Marc Medwin

by Marc Medwin
May 15, 2007

This addition to the Frith/Cutler catalogue was recorded during the Henry Cow reunion weekend at New York City's The Stone in December, 2006; for those familiar with the recent working methods of both musicians, the only surprise is how rich and full this document sounds. Consisting of one 50-minute track, the duo creates the illusion of ...

Article: Live Review

Fred Frith & Arte Quartett

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2007

Still/Urban Area Sismica - Forlì - 13.01.2007 Acquattata in solitudine nell’oscurità, nascosta in fondo a una serie di curve tutte uguali e diluita in una nebbia appiccicosa l’Area Sismica non è esattamente un luogo facile da raggiungere... si perdono persino i musicisti! Ma è un nido talmente delizioso e confortevole, dall’atmosfera dadaista retro-romagnola, che chiusa nebbia, ...

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The Compass, Log, And Lead

By Fred Frith

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Time Comes Presto; A Beautiful Thing To Forget/Far ej Tackas; Look At Shy Go; Dog-Eared; I Am Buffalo Bill Today; Initially This; Postcard From The Back; I Am Map; Abstract Expressionism; Dream As A Means; Aller Retour; Time Goes Largo.

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Impur

By Fred Frith

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2006

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Article: Album Review

Fred Frith / Stevie Wishart / Carla Kihlstedt: The Compass, Log, and Lead

Read "The Compass, Log, and Lead" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 8, 2006

In the course of guitarist/composer and consummate improviser Fred Frith's extensive discography, many of us have grown accustomed to being sensitized for expecting the unforeseen. With this release, recorded at a studio in Oakland, California, the trio casts a homespun edge to avant-garde stylizations. Violinist Carla Kihlstedt also uses a Swedish folk instrument known as the ...

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Allies

By Fred Frith

Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Rifka 2. Small Mercy 1 3. Nenad 4. a rock and a hard place 5. Davor and Dzeneta 6. Small Mercy 2

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Eleventh Hour

By Fred Frith

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Lelekovice (1990, for string quartet); Tense Serenity (1997, for string trio and trombone); Allegory (2001, for string quartet and electric guitar); Stick Figures (1990, for 6 guitars and 2 players); Fell (2001, for string quartet and electric guitar).