 After Gravity, where he worked with The Muffins and Samla Mammas Manna, this was Fred’s second solo release for The Residents’ Ralph Records, this time working with French RIO band Etron Fou Leloublan – notably their drummer, Gigou Chenevier, who makes a major musical and aesthetic contribution to the character and atmosphere of these recordings. Here are clear, melodic, through composed pieces that both hold to the Folk/Rock vocabularies explored on Gravity and continue the exploration of territory opened up on Hopes and Fears, Moeris Dancing. These tracks drive and rock and swing; they are tense and dense and often dramatic. Environmental recordings of Fred’s New York environment also colour the mix. And listen out for Satie’s typewriter.. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)
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FRED FRITH: Speechless
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FRED FRITH: Middle Of The Moment
Continuing the definitive Fred edition, this is the CD based on Fred’s music for the second film he made with Humbert and Penzel – following nomads – that features, along with Fred’s compositions and re-workings, a restless and gripping unfolding of atmospheric locations, tuareg and other musics, ethongraphic material and times captured. A collage or a soundwork rather than a straightforwardly musical composition, this is a serious and unfairly marginalised piece (because it falls between worlds?) that nevertheless succeeds brilliantly once the ear is fully opened. A meditation too on the power – and the enigma – of recording.
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Le Jour se lève listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/01 Fred Frith - Le jour se lève.mp3"]2. Moving listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/02 Fred Frith - Moving.mp3"]3. Digging for Water listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/03 Fred Frith - Digging for Water.mp3"]4. Tam-Tam in Timia listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/04 Fred Frith - Tam-Tam in Timia.mp3"]5. Le Cirque listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/05 Fred Frith - Le Cirque.mp3"]6. Robert Lax listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/06 Fred Frith - Robert Lax Is.mp3"]7. Gnawa Express listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/07 Fred Frith - Gnawa Express.mp3"]8. Bell Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/08 Fred Frith - Bell Song.mp3"]9. Portrait II listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/09 Fred Frith - Portrait II.mp3"]10. Ghost Stories listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/10 Fred Frith - Ghost Stories.mp3"]11. Portes Ouvertes listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/11 Fred Frith - Portes Ouvertes.mp3"]12. Ghost Dance listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/12 Fred Frith - Ghost Dance - Portrait III.mp3"]13. Le Jour S’arrache listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/13 Fred Frith - Le jour.mp3"]14. Middle of the Moment listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/middle of the moment/14 Fred Frith - middle of the moment.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: Cheap At Half The Price
Fred’s third LP for Ralph Records, back in 1983, was a collection of four-track home studio songs (and a couple of instrumental pieces) in which Fred played all the instruments (exceptions: two bass cameos from Tina Curran and Bill Laswell, and some great drum samples from Hans Bruinnsson. Causing raised eyebrows at the time (from, as Fred calls them ‘progressive music snobs’ – of which I guess I was one) for its apparent simplicity and departure from what was then thought of as Fred Style, this work has matured with age and perspective and no longer seems (to this former critic) to stand outside the oeuvre, but rather to exemplify a persistent strand within it. Echoes appear in many later works. In context it’s a record that makes sense – what was all the fuss about? – and it has become a record that’s refreshing to listen to. And political – political and personal. In fact, as well as being a very rewarding, darkish, toe-tapper of a record, it seems also to have tapped an important biographical moment. There are some great guitar sounds, production ideas and of course the expected exemplary playing of everything, all the time. A good argument for reissues. Very nicely re-mastered, and in a nice new package.
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Some Clouds Don’t listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/01 Fred Frith - Some Clouds Don't.mp3"]2. Cap the Knife listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/02 Fred Frith - Cap the Knife.mp3"]3. Evolution listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/03 Fred Frith - Evolution.mp3"]4. Too Much Too Little listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/04 Fred Frith - Too Much Too Little.mp3"]5. The Welcome listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/05 Fred Frith - The Welcome.mp3"]6. Same Old Me listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/06 Fred Frith - Same Old Me.mp3"]7. Come Clouds Do listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/07 Fred Frith - Some Clouds Do.mp3"]8. Instant Party listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/08 Fred Frith - Instant Party.mp3"]9. Walking Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/09 Fred Frith - Walking Song.mp3"]10. Flying in the Face listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/10 Fred Frith - Flying in the Face of Facts.mp3"]11. Heart Bares listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/11 Fred Frith - Heart Bares.mp3"]12. Absent Friends listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/12 Fred Frith - Absent Friends.mp3"]13. The Great Healer listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/13 Fred Frith - The Great Healer.mp3"]. -
FRED FRITH: Allies
Reissue of the 1989 dance music album, with Joey Baron, Tom Cora and George Cartwright. One of Fred’s open field type compositions – where parallel events proceed serenely, coinciding half-unpredictably, but still often enough to sound connected. There is continuity in modular repetition but so many overlays, small alterations, emergent details and new material that the sonic terrain they invoke is constantly mutating and constantly unpredictable (even after several auditions). Continuity is here irregularly interrupted by disruptive events, always settling back into semi-stable planes. Re-mastered and repackaged
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MP3: £1.70p|FLAC: £2.001. Rifka listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/01 Fred Frith - Rifka.mp3"]2. Small Mercy 1 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/02 Fred Frith - Small Mercy 1.mp3"]3. Nenad listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/03 Fred Frith - Nenad.mp3"]4. A Rock and A Hard Place listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/04 Fred Frith - A rock and a hard place.mp3"]5. Davor and Dzeneta listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/05 Fred Frith - Davor and Dzeneta.mp3"]6. Small Mercy 2 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; Allies/06 Fred Frith - Small Mercy 2.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: Accidental
11 new pieces originally composed and recorded for choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton with big guitar, violin, voice, pedals, radios, keyboards, extraneous noises and voices off put together as rhythms, large chords, squeals, harmony .. where accidents are more than welcome. This is Fred with the stops out and the musical intelligence set at high…you want it..
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. The Tangled Bank listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/01 Fred Frith - The Tangled Bank.mp3"]2. Hit and Run listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/02 Fred Frith - Hit and Run.mp3"]3. Gatto Nero listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/03 Fred Frith - Gatto Nero.mp3"]4. Old Geometry listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/04 Fred Frith - Old Geometry.mp3"]5. Their Blood Is Black and Yellow listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/05 Fred Frith - Their Blood Is Black and Yellow.mp3"]6. In a Heartbeat listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/06 Fred Frith - In a Heartbeat.mp3"]7. Fooled Again listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/07 Fred Frith - Fooled Again.mp3"]8. Accidental listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/08 Fred Frith - Accidental.mp3"]9. Absinthe Memories (For Phil Minton) listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/09 Fred Frith - Absinthe Memories (For Phil Minton).mp3"]10. Incoming listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/10 Fred Frith - Incoming.mp3"]11. Almighty Home at Last listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Accidental; Music for Dance Vol. 3/11 Fred Frith - Almighty Home at Last.mp3"]
