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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.
Fred Frith / Stevie Wishart / Carla Kihlstedt: The Compass, Log, and Lead
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
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
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).
Fred Frith: Eleventh Hour
by John Kelman
When he first emerged on the British scene in the seminal Canterbury group Henry Cow over thirty years ago, few could have envisaged that guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith would go on to a career marked by fearless pursuit, continuous parallel growth, and stylistic diversity. But if you go back to those early albums--in particular Unrest and In ...
Fred Frith: Eleventh Hour
by Chris May
A really lovely and absorbing double CD set which documents Fred Frith's growing fascination with and mastery of composition for strings, from “Lelekovice" in '90 to “Allegory" and “Fell" in '01. It's not remotely jazz, but it is very fine music indeed, and anyone with an interest in new music should find much to enjoy and ...
Fred Frith: Allies
by James Taylor
The story of Allies begins in 1989, when guitarist/composer Fred Frith was commissioned by choreographer Bebe Miller to compose a suite for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's “Next Wave'" series. Unhappy with the computerized beats he used on the original recording, Frith asked Naked City drummer Joey Baron to re-record the drum tracks on Allies in ...
