 A collection of various songs and extended songs that Fred has made over the years, including a samples and newspaper project made for WDR (radio) and tributes to Bert Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. This is Fred in studio mode, writing great songs – sadly a generally rather thinly documented aspect of his work, and one that, in my opinion, he excels at. A very welcome release. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)
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| 10. I Want It To Be Over | |
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| 11. Spot | |
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| 12. In the Winter of ’64 | |
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FRED FRITH: Prints
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FRED FRITH: Keep The Dog Live
Fred’s legendary collected works band, formed in 1989 with allstars Rene Lussier, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, Jean Derome and Charles Hayward. An album mainly of instrumental compositions. Charles’ clean, incisive drums lend a sharp edge to the more jazz inflected horns sometimes shifting into jazz-rock territory, Zeena in less customary role concentrates on Keyboards (and occasionally sings with Fred), Rene and Fred share Bass and Guitar, Jean covers a family of winds with an even handed virtuosity and, for the rest, if you cant square it, its probably Bob Ostertag, whose sampler stored parts, noises and whatever no one else had hands for. As with Henry Cow, Fred integrated large stretches of improvising between and within the pieces following the grail many of us pursue still – integration beyond the point of distinguishing between composition, improvisation, interpretation and performance. This double CD was compiled from performances in many countries in 1991 and it represents both the breadth of composition and the extraordinary quality of musicianship and imagination characteristic of that new, homeless, community of composer/performers that emerged from the 70’s genre collapse, a terminal collapse that was to throw the contents and techniques of Folk, Jazz, Rock and Contemporary musics into what was to become in the space of a few years effectively a new form.DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.00DISC 1: 1. Revelation Bones listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/01 Fred Frith - Revelation-Bones.mp3"]2. Rock and a Hard Place listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/02 Fred Frith - Rock and a Hard Place.mp3"]3. Hola, On Danse listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/03 Fred Frith - Hola On Danse.mp3"]4. Foot in a Hole listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/04 Fred Frith - Foot in a Hole.mp3"]5. Fanfare-Lizard’s Tail listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/05 Fred Frith - Fanfare-Lizard's Tail.mp3"]6. Suspended listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/06 Fred Frith - Suspended.mp3"]7. Quick Sign listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/07 Fred Frith - Quick Sign.mp3"]8. Propaganda Suite listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/08 Fred Frith - Propaganda Suite.mp3"]9. Walking Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/09 Fred Frith - Walking Song.mp3"]10. Some Clouds Do listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 1/10 Fred Frith - Some Clouds Do.mp3"]DISC 2: 1. The Same Eye-Fires listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/01 Fred Frith - The Same Eye-Fires.mp3"]2. Votegs-Slow Bones listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/02 Fred Frith - Votegs-Slow Bones.mp3"]3. That Home We Lived In (Keep the Dog) Candy Machine listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/03 Fred Frith - That Home We Lived In (Keep the Dog)-Candy Machine.mp3"]4. The Trace listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/04 Fred Frith - The Trace.mp3"]5. True Love listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/05 Fred Frith - True Love.mp3"]6. Instant Party listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/06 Fred Frith - Instant Party.mp3"]7. Small Mercy, Pt.2 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/07 Fred Frith - Small Mercy Pt. 2.mp3"]8. Norrgarden Nvyla listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/08 Fred Frith - Norrgarden Nyvla.mp3"]9. Year of the Monkey-Dark as a Match listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/09 Fred Frith - Year of the Monkey-Dark as a Match.mp3"]10. Domaine de Langardreer listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Keep the Dog; That House We Lived In Disc 2/10 Fred Frith - Domaine de Langardreer.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: The Happy End Problem
A new recording, and instantly a Fred classic. Two, related, small-ensemble works for 6 and 7 musicians respectively – mostly strings of one sort or another, with percussion, flute and clarinet occasionally, and electronics. Fred, violinist Carla Kilsteht and percussionist Willie Wynant play throughout, providing continuity across the pieces as the music constantly unfolds into new textures and dialects. Melody, harmony and rhythm are omnipresent, though not always obviously colluding, and the music moves with constant assurance, never hesitating and never marking time. There are some affinities with Nicola Kodjbashia’s luminous ‘Solitary Walker’ (which it predates) in its use of minimal instrumentation to maximum effect, popular materials, exquisite articulation and a kind of modest transcendence. The necessity and simplicity of these pieces conceals a catalogue of experimental techniques and novel ideas; there are those who’d have squeezed a score of albums from this material. A gem. Buy it. Carla Kilsteht shines throughout.
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Imitation -Ukon listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/01 Fred Frith - Imitation - Ukon.mp3"]2. Imitation-Kira listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/02 Fred Frith - Imitation - Kira.mp3"]3. Imitation-Kio listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/03 Fred Frith - Imitation - Kio.mp3"]4. Imitation-Tan listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/04 Fred Frith - Imitation - Tan.mp3"]5. Imitation-Shi-O listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/05 Fred Frith - Imitation - Shi.mp3"]6. Imitation-Beni listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/06 Fred Frith - Imitation - Beni.mp3"]7. Imitation-Kasumi listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/07 Fred Frith - Imitation - Kasumi.mp3"]8. Imitation-Sumi listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/08 Fred Frith - Imitation - Sumi.mp3"]9. Imitation-Hanabira listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/09 Fred Frith - Imitation - Hanabira.mp3"]10. The Happy End Problem listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Fred Frith; The Happy End Problem/10 Fred Frith - The Happy End Problem.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH & JOHN ZORN: The Art Of Memory II
The long-awaited follow up to their first release on Derek Bailey’s Incus label and a kind of prequel, going back to the time when Fred was playing home-made instruments and John was using mouthpieces and duck-calls as much or more than alto sax; this was back in the New York glory days when 100 new ideas popped up somewhere every day, and these performances lie right at the fringe of what most people would accept as “music”. Anyone wanting to get back to one of the roots of what later became known as “noise music” will want this CD, since these performances encapsulate an approach to improvisation that has much more to do with listening to the world than perpetuating an existing musical tradition that works through safe, mutually understood, rules and conventions. AOMII is a vintage document from a lost era when innovation, energy and imagination were valued, and still had the power to shock and surprise.
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MP3: £1.70p|FLAC: £2.001. The Heaven listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/The Art of Memory II/01 Fred Frith & John Zorn - The Heaven.mp3"]2. The Wood listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/The Art of Memory II/02 Fred Frith & John Zorn - The Wood.mp3"]3.The Standard listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/The Art of Memory II/03 Fred Frith & John Zorn - The Standard.mp3"]4. The Wheel listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/The Art of Memory II/04 Fred Frith & John Zorn - The Wheel.mp3"]5. The Painter listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/The Art of Memory II/05 Fred Frith & John Zorn - The Painter.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: Technology Of Tears
With an all-star line-up that features Tenko, John Zorn and Christian Marclay (with guest Jim Staley on trombone), Technology of Tears started life in New York in 1986 as a dance commission by Rosalind Newman. Fred took this opportunity to experiment with Henry Kaiser’s brand new synclavier (the absolute state-of-the-art sampling and processing technology of the time – Henry had to take out a second mortgage on his house to buy it). It was the sophisticated sampling that fascinated Fred, and the piece is characterised by technological “comparisons” between real and virtual voices which constantly merge into one another. Tenko and Zorn tear through it all with breathless intensity. Parts two and three, which follow, couldn’t be more different, for them Fred adopts a completely different methodology, playing everything himself mostly on low-grade instruments, then inviting turntablist Marclay to add plundered parts. Here is a completely different approach to “sampling”: exploring dense layers of quotation intercut with melodies formed using random editing processes (with subsequent transcription and re-performance). Lastly there is Jigsaw, a later work, also made for Rosalind Newman, reflecting the frustrations experienced making Technology… where, every time Fred would complete a stable version, Rosalind would ask for changes (incidentally, sending the recording way over budget). This time Fred decided to make a modular piece that could be re-assembled in any way requested – and having no pre-determined structure at all. The original composition consisted of dozens of musical cells, each recorded separately in increments of between 3 and 12 measures; all at the same tempo, and in the same key. The idea was to play the elements separately and then ask Rosalind how she would like them constructed. Ironically, the test assembly, made as demonstration of what was possible, won instant approval, and no reconstruction was ever necessary.
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