fred frith s&d

"Step across the border" is by far my favourite music movie of all time, so, search that.

I don't know I dismissed Henry Cow and Gravity and Speechless before.

And yeah OTM re Step Across the Border. I overrated Freedom in Fragments. Upbeat is v classic; I'm not sure which I'd choose if I had to pick between it and Ayaya Moses. Still listen to To Sail, to Sail.

"don't know how I could have dismissed..."

Fred is getting interviewed Thursday night on KPFA FM at 10pm in Berkeley about this Saturday's show and some of the back stories about Gravity

saw him a few months ago w/ a friend and now whenever we go see shows we're both like "that's no fred frith"

http://www.slimstickets.com/events/183310/Fred%20Frith%20plays%20GRAVITY

o dam dom

Frith also seems like a really decent person. I knew (possibly still know in the sense that it might be possible to reactivate the relationship, but there have been some bumps) someone married to a Japanese musician. He said that Frith was the first person who called to check on them after one of Japan's earthquakes. (Leaving out specifics to discourage googlability.)

Sund4r's EOY album nomination, Fred Frith/Darren Johnston's Everybody's Somebody's Nobody sounds good on first listen.

Do we need a (Frith/Jonston's) Everybody's Somebody's Nobody vs. (Steve Tyler's) We're All Somebody From Somewhere poll? (Have not heard the latter.)

This is mostly very good. First new Frith-involved recording I've liked for a while.

Glad someone else likes it! I was pretty pleasantly surprised and excited as well.

I don't know what to say about it. It's kind of jazzy for a Fred Frith album, but if I say it's jazzy that will create the wrong expectations. Probably the jazz comes in more from Johnston's playing. Frith does a good job at times making up for a missing rhythm section.

It's mostly on the quiet side, for memebers of the audience out there wondering if they want to listen. (Who lurks on the Fred Frith thread?)

Listened to it this morning (it's on Spotify) -- loved it.

It didn't hit me how frithertronics "Standard Candles" (or at least a stretch of it) is until now.

Probably just toward the end.

Yeah, totally. It has a bit of an Evening Star quality.

Ha, it also reminds me a bit of some of the SYR EPs, although I think it's better realised than most of those.

It's kind of jazzy for a Fred Frith album, but if I say it's jazzy that will create the wrong expectations. Probably the jazz comes in more from Johnston's playing.

Johnston is a jazz musician and a trumpet player. It is going to sound like jazz. Fred also has a trio with a bassist and drummer (not sure if their album came out this year or is coming out next year), and that sounds less "jazzy".

His trio album "another day in fucking paradise" is v good as well.

It pleases me greatly to see the musicians on these records being discussed and praised.

rhythm section on the trio record is Jordan Glenn and Jason Hoopes, also of Jack o' the Clock for the prog fans here.

i'm also told that frith plays on the new jack o' the clock record, which is their best yet.

what is fred playing here????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmb-lIE71Q&feature=youtu.be

Idk the answer but I've been listening to this year's album with Hans Koch on Spotify and there is some surprising and evocative music on there. Pretty 'out' improv stuff with an emphasis on timbre and dynamics.

Pulled out Ironic Universe, with Janet Feder, yesterday, after not having listened to it in years. It holds up amazingly well, sounds like a precursor to a lot of the acoustic avant-folk picking stuff from the last few years.

Observations of Deviance, a show on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream, had a 3-hour Frith special tonight including a longish interview with FF broken into 3 parts. The show is at https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/127732 and I assume the archived audio will be up in the next couple of hours. Frith's a very good interviewee even with a poor to so-so interviewer, which was the case tonight.

Frith is a guy I always forget about for some reason but always really enjoy

best cover

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwQ9InXaMAAbpzG?format=jpg&name=medium

best album!

I saw him "conducting", I guess, a big group improvisation in 1998 in a church on Toronto Island, I still recall a weird slow-motion klezmer tangent the music took at one point. "Beautiful as the moon - terrible as an army with banners" is one of my favourite songs, but I still haven't heard the last Art Bears album yet. Are any of his subsequent recordings in that vein?

i feel like i see frith play all the freakin time and hes always just tappin on his guitar but its always good

so i shot awake last night out of strange forgotten dreams with the thought "FRED FRITH AND LITTLE MY!"

ilx plz help me process and further this important thought

I accidentally slept through Fred Friths set in Berlin last weekend. Is it possible that we connected on the astral plane and I sent you show?