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Fred Frith was with Henry Cow in the 70's, then moved to NYCNY around '80 and started doing more improv/noisy/experimental/ stuff He's largely a guitarist with a blazing right hand & is very good at 'table' gtr. (see Live discs with Chris Cutler), but he also plays fine fiddle (violin) and bass (4 & 6 string) He played with Eno (magic & science), Bill Laswell's Material, Massacre, Golden Palominos (1st disc), Skeleton Crew, Dense Band, N. A.D. and LOTS of other wonderful noisy hybrid 'bands', duets, and has a bunch of solo records, etc. Check out Gravity or Speechless (solo CDs) for wonderful examples of his style of noise/jazz/gypsy stuff There's also a nice disc: Live at Victoriaville (w/Leussier(sp)) which is full of noisy scratchy gtr duets ... BTW - He also played some guitar on the FFKT - third song on the second side (the arpeggio gtr.) It was a fun band to see - I cought them here in the bay area at Ashkenas in Berkeley. There's an extensive list of his stuff at the ReR records web site: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/estate/jf23 There's also an online catalog linked from this ... BTW - the CD disc w/Kaiser is a compilation of 2 vinyls & an unreleased live album - the disc w/Marc Ribot is called "Subsonic 1: Sound of a Distant Episode" -Buzz >> From: Pete Koniuto <pkoniuto@bu.edu> >> Loopists, >> >> I've seen/heard Fred Frith's name pop up in numerous >> interesting contexts, but don't think i have ever >> actually heard his music. >> >> Can anyone here give me some idea of what he's done, >> different developmental periods in his career, >> contributions to looping, good recordings to start out >> with, collaborator's, etc? > Much obliged, much obliged,> Pete Koniuto > >I too would like to learn more about Frith -i've seen him live in a duo >with John Zorn, it was really cool - and i have some stuff he's released - >some with Henry Kaiser ("with enemies like these, who needs friends") and >a >string quartet CD. >To me, he's another key guitarist in the whole ground-breaking >experimental/roots area. And a champion of the improvisational spirit. He >plays some bass on some other stuff, like the Frith, French, Kaiser, >Thompson disc - which i strangely didn't enjoy the first couple listens. >anyone else have thoughts on this CD??? I never got into Richard Thompson >- >i think it's the singing, cos i love his guitar work... > >peace, andre' e >> >> Buzz Kettles - buzz@macromedia.com Director, Shockwave, SWA and Audio R&D