new fred frith record

Sandra Galejs

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Oct 9, 1990, 3:05:38 PM10/9/90

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Well, I'm sitting at my desk pretending to work, but actually listening to
"Step Across the Border", the Fred Frith film soundtrack: I got hold of a promo
copy yesterday (East Side Digital # 80462). Rather than grope for adjectives
(and possibly drool all over my workstation), I'll just stick to the facts.

The CD has 29 cuts, only 7 of which have previously appeared on record
(1 each from "Gravity", "Killing Time", and "The Country of Blinds",
3 from "Cheap at Half the Price", and one from a compilation called
"Island of Sanity" which I've never heard of before). The fact that it's a
regular-pressing CD rather than a prerelease cassette makes the odds pretty
good that the announced release date of late October is correct.

More than half the cuts are from 1988 and on: lots of live performances, mostly
solo and duets. Duets with Bob Ostertag, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Tim Hodgkinson,
Iva Bittova, and some other names that aren't familar to me. No Tenko on the
record, which surprises me. There's a tune from a "Keep The Dog" rehearsal
(a version of "Nirvana for Mice"!), and excerpts from the piece written for
the Four Guitarists of The Apocalypso Bar (with Fred himself playing).

In the discography section, "Speechless" and "Gravity" have a scheduled 1990
re-release date, while "Cheap at Half the Price" is slated for 1991.
Another tiny-print section says that "Killing Time" (the Massacre album) is to
be reissued, but doesn't give any details.

Great record! Buy it now: demand it at your local Tower / Sam Goody outlet:
request cuts on your local "progressive" station and watch their ears melt.

nine funerals of the citizen king,
Sandra Galejs (gal...@cg-atla.agfa.com)

John J. Wood

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Oct 9, 1990, 9:49:53 PM10/9/90

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Does anyone know if the projected album involving Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser
and Richard Thompson is released??

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Tom Jack

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Oct 10, 1990, 6:32:46 PM10/10/90

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>rec.music.misc / jo...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood)

>Does anyone know if the projected album involving Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser
>and Richard Thompson is released??

YES. YES. (John French is also on the recording)

Appearing now/soon in a record store near you -
"Invisible Means" by FFKT on Windham Hill Records (WD-1094).

Tom Jack
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Seth Katz

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Oct 10, 1990, 1:30:58 PM10/10/90

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In article <98...@ur-cc.UUCP>, jo...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood) writes:
|> Does anyone know if the projected album involving Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser
|> and Richard Thompson is released??

Frith, Kaiser, Thompson, and French. There is, of course,
already one album out by this band, "Live, Love, Larf, Loaf"
or something like that. I haven't seen the new album, but
I did hear an interview with Kaiser months ago saying it was
done. It was an amusing interview. He says the album is coming
out on the Windham Hill label. He also said that he has no idea
why a label like Windham Hill would sign a band like that.
-s

Nou Dadoun

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Oct 11, 1990, 8:18:32 PM10/11/90

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(Sandra Galejs) writes:
>The CD has 29 cuts, only 7 of which have previously appeared on record
>(1 each from "Gravity", "Killing Time", and "The Country of Blinds",
>3 from "Cheap at Half the Price", and one from a compilation called
>"Island of Sanity" which I've never heard of before).

Island of Sanity is a double album compilation of artists on the
no man's land (nml) record label. It focuses on musicians in the
downtown NY scene (the island in question). A more recent (more consistent
and more highly recommended) compilation from the same label is A Classic
Guide to No Man's Land, a CD only release of last year which was discussed
at length on the nm (new music) discussion list.

The artists represented on the two include Jad Fair, Skeleton Crew,
Bobby Previte, The President (an earlier version of one of the tunes on
Bring Yr Camera), David Garland, Chris Cutler etc.

More details available on request...

---------------------------------------------------------------> Nou

Is it true that Jad Fair is Harpo Marx's grandson?