Fred Frith
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Madrid
01/24
I've just arrived in Madrid for a week of work sponsored by MusicaLibre, the Spanish Association for Improvised Music. I'll be performing solo, and directing the FOCO Orchestra for two nights. For details of this and other upcoming concerts, including new additions, see Concerts page.
Welcome to the newly re-launched Fred Frith website.
11/17
Here you can:
- find the latest news on upcoming concerts and record releases
- download your concert promotion and logistics needs, including bios, press quotes, photos, and tech riders)
- access archives, including lists of recent compositions, film soundtracks, and CDs
- read a selection of interviews and other writings
- access a selection of audio and video clips
- contact Fred if you have questions or comments
- be surprised by unexpected images, obscure lists, and other artifacts!
- find links to a host of useful sites, including music distributors, online journals, festivals, artists, musicians, and more.
Contretemps etc
11/11
with Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis
A memorable concert recording now available on the French In Situ label.
"Ils sont libres comme une eau de spasme, indemnes de toutes les tempêtes. Guerre et paix chez eux, alarmes et fracas. Mais surtout : une improvisation qui ne ressemble à aucune autre. Un miracle?" Le Son du Grisli
"One of the best improv recordings I've ever heard" William Winant
On Cold Mountain: Songs on Poems of Gary Snyder
11/11
Karen Clark, contralto + Galax Quartet
Compositions by Fred Frith, W.A. Mathieu, Robert Morris, Roy Whelden
"The meld between poet, composers and performers is as close to ideal as you are going to find today....a masterpiece..."
Classical-Modern Music Review
COSA BRAVA new recording
09/11
The Letter—the second Cosa Brava CD—is now recorded. Mixing will be completed in February, hopefully it will be ready in time for our European tour in May.
NOW AVAILABLE on Ninth World Records:
09/10
Long as in short, walk as in run
A new CD of duos by Annie Lewandowski (piano, preparations) and Fred Frith (electric guitar, preparations)
"Curiosity, tenderness, mischief"
From the liner notes by Ben Piekut
NOW AVAILABLE on Intakt Records
09/09
Clearing Customs
Live and studio recordings for SWR's 2007 New Jazz Meeting project, with Daniela Cattivelli, Wu Fei, Marque Gilmore, Anantha Krishnan, Tilman Müller, & Patrice Scanlon
"It is not the grand, flaunting gestures that define the quality of his music but the interaction, the listening to each other, the fine tuning of sounds."
From the liner notes by Reinhard Kager
COSA BRAVA: Ragged Atlas
09/08
with Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi and The Norman Conquest
"Frith's ideas never stray far from joyous music making" All About Jazz, May 2010
"...reveals another form of beauty" Harry Lachner, WDR 5
"A masterpiece that draws from the contemporary musical cosmos of song, rock, folk and improvisation to create wonderfully strong-willed atmospheres."
Christoph Jaritz, Woche
Christoph Jaritz, Woche
For full catalog of works by Fred Frith on Intakt: www.intaktrec.ch
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Archive
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