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Showing posts with label Fred Frith. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Wu Fei - A Distant Youth



Wu Fei - guzheng and vocals 

Carla Kihlstedt - violin 

Fred Frith - acoustic and electric guitars 

Helge A. Norbakken - percussions on Hunan






Saturday, February 24, 2018

GIS Orchestra + Fred Frith












GIS Orchestra feat. Fred Frith - Live at Schlachthof, Wels, Austria, 2018-02-19

Fred Frith - conductor
Gigi Gratt - flgh, conductor
Stephan Roiss: voice
Christoph Haunschmidt: voice
Sigi Ecker: voice
Phil Sicko: voice
Reina Fehlinger: voice
Melanie Stiftinger: voice
Alfred Grubbauer: cl
Charly Schmidt: Saxophon
Georg Schwantner: saxophon
Christoph Althoff: flute
Tamara Imlinger: piano
Florian Graf: git & electronics
Markus Schneider: git
David Kindlinger: git
Eddie Friedl: turntables
Richie Herbst: electronics
Sebastian Six: electronics
Martin Hiptmair: bass
Alexander Hofmayr: bass
Martin Flotzinger: dr
Christoph Fizl Stadler: dr















Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Fred Frith Live @ Roulette TV







Fred Frith // "Gravity" // Live at Roulette from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

Fred Frith returns to the Roulette stage to revisit Gravity, the beloved 1979 album that also marked the guitarist/composer’s new life in New York. An experimental album that was inspired by social and dance music from around the world, Gravity is a rare “avant-garde dance record” that bounced with the “joyful noise” (BBC) of dance-friendly rhythms even as it challenged expectations and forged a new musical direction for the artist. With a new cast of friends and musical accomplices joining Frith on stage, this recreation and reinterpretation of Gravity promises to equally astound and delight today, nearly a quarter of a century after it first changed the landscape of experimental music.

Fred Frith, guitar/electric bass
with
Marie Abe, accordion
Myles Boisen, sound
Jordan Glenn, drums
Kaethe Hostetter, violin
Kasey Knudsen, alto sax
Dominique Leone, keyboards
Ava Mendoza, guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Aaron Novik, clarinet/bass clarinet
William Winant, percussion
Wobbly, sampling

Fred Frith is a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar that began with Guitar Solos in 1974. He learned his craft as both improviser and composer playing in rock bands, notably Henry Cow, and creating music in the recording studio. Frith’s work has been performed by Ensemble Modern, Hieronymus Firebrain, Arditti Quartet, Ground Zero, Robert Wyatt, Bang on a Can All Stars, Concerto Köln, and Rova Sax Quartet, among many others. Frith continues to perform internationally, most recently with Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Mike Patton, Shelley Hirsch, Lotte Anker, the Gravity Band, and Cosa Brava, whose second CD, The Letter, was released in 2012 on the Intakt label. Fred is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels’ award-winning documentary film Step Across the Border.
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