Hi! Has anybody seen Fred frith play solo recently? Or maybe more specifically, since he released "Clearing"? I've seen him a few times, and it has always been pure free improv. But on "Clearing" it seems much more structured, perhaps even composed, and I was wondering if he is perfromng any of that live these days. There is many of the things on "Clearing" I would love to hear him perform in some form or other live, for example "Theater" I think it's called. It has a slightly "turkish" feeling to it. I love Freds guitar playing and I wish he would release more. I feel there is many sides to it, which very rarely gets released. For the last several years, it has almost only been pure improv records. Oviously, something like blues and fingerpicking styles are a huge influence on him, but it's pretty rare that he records anything like that. I'd love to hear a CD of Fred takng on some different compostions, perhaps een some old lues songs or something like that. Okay, just rambling. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Has anybody seen Fred frith play solo recently? Or maybe more specifically, since he released "Clearing"?
i've heard him playing solo about half a year ago. he played two sets, the first one was a bit noisy, but in the second set, he created a beautiful soundscape that later reminded me of "clearing". after the second set he didn't play an encore, telling the audience that everything that he could play as encore would destroy what he tried to create for the last hour... i think all the music was improvised, but i don't know for sure. but a few years ago i heard a radio broadcast of one of his solo concerts, playing "traffic continues". well, i wouldn't have recorgnize it, if it weren't said before... Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@gmx.net ICQ: 96771783 http://www.nyds-exp-discogs.tk -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Jack Kerouac
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