Update Nov 2020
N E W S
____Update DECEMBER 2022___
TRUTH IS A FOUR LETTER WORD will premiere at the Maison des Arts de Créteil on February 17th 2023.
For more information see www.sonsdhiver.org/2023-elise-caron-le-quatuor-bela-fred-frith
If you would like to donate to our fundraiser the link (and lots more details) can be found here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/truth-is-a-four-letter-word
Tickets are now available at
https://www.vostickets.net/billet
ID=SONSDHIVER&SPC=16612
New recordings available almost immediately:
Laying Demons to Rest with Susana Santos Silva (on Rogu’Art label)
Dancing Like Dust with Núria Andorrà (on KlangGalerie)
Moving Parts with Normal (Fred Frith/Sudhu Tewari)(on Foc’s’le Records)
New recordings coming who knows when on the Sub Rosa Label:
Something About This Landscape, a Fred composition for the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, featuring the composer as improvising soloist.
Nature, with gong virtuoso Karen Stackpole
And of course there’s Free Dirt/Dirt Free, a double CD of Skeleton Crew Live on the Klanggalerie label
Road, FF Trio with special guests Lotte Anker and Susana Santos Silva on Intakt
And three box sets of all Fred Records releases plus two records that were not reissued until now – Dropera (with Ferdinand Richard) and Helter Skelter (the Marseille opera project directed by François-Michel Pesenti), both re-mastered by Myles Boisen. There’s also the previously unreleased Inimitable, a dance project commissioned by Amanda Miller. If you buy all three boxes there’s an additional CD, of Fred’s last concert with Tom Cora in Aubervilliers in 1998 (as well as unreleased shows with Chris Cutler). Full details at ReR Megacorp: https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?
The following lockdown projects/records are still available:
French Gigs – re-issue of the 1981 record with Lol Coxhill on Klanggalerie, Austria [https://www.klanggalerie.com/gg353]
This or Here and That – new CD of quartet with Clara Weil (voice), Tom Malmendier (drums), and Anil Eraslan (cello) on Eux Saem, France [https://euxsaem.bandcamp.com/album/there-or-here-and-that]
Fanfarissimo, new duo on vinyl with Chilean trumpeter Benjamin Vergara on Tour de Bras, Canada [https://tourdebras.bandcamp.com/album/fanfarrisimo]
Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down, a ten year old trio recording with Sudhu Tewari and Cenk Ergün, beautifully re-imagined and re-constructed by Cenk. [https://frith-tewari-ergun.bandcamp.com]
A mountain doesn’t know it’s tall, a new duo recording playing home-made instruments with Ikue Mori (laptop electronics). [https://www.intaktrec.ch/352-a.htm]
