Closer to the Ground Fred Frith Trio

• 1 Bones to Pick with Graveyards 05:16
• 2 Alle planmäßigen Ziele werden erreicht 05:06
• 3 In the Grip of It 04:56
• 4 Ruhebereich 06:23
• 5 Stars like Trees 05:55
• 6 A Path Made by Walking 06:49
• 7 Betting on the World 02:39
• 8 Love and Other Embers 07:34
• 9 Up in Smoke 06:18
• Total Runtime 50:56

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Fred Frith, der Improvisateur, Komponist und Multi-Instrumentalist, der lachende Aussenseiter zwischen Rock und Jazz, Improvisation und Komposition, führt sein Gitarrentrio aus der Bay Aera mit einer zweiten CD-Veröffentlichung weiter: «Closer to the Ground».

Frühe Erfahrungen aus der Rock and Roll Zeit werden verarbeitet und mit Fred Frith's eigenwilliger Spielweise und seinem höchst persönlichen Sound weitergeführt. "Drei aussergewöhnlich kreative Musiker spielen eine Musik, wie wir sie zuvor noch nie gehört haben", schreibt der kanadische Jazzkritiker Raul da Gama über das Trio. Das Gitarrentrio ergänzt die Intakt-Aufnahmen von Fred Frith mit Hans Koch, Katharina Weber, Lotte Anker, Carla Kihlstedt, Barry Guy sowie die beiden Song-Alben mit seiner Band Cosa Brava.

Fred Frith, Gitarre, Orgel
Jason Hoopes, E-Bass, Kontrabass
Jordan Glenn, Schlagzeug, Percussion

Recorded January 13 – 15, 2018, at Sharkbite Studios, Oakland by Scott Evans
Mixed at Guerrilla Recording in February 2018
Mastered at Headless Buddha, Oakland, March 8, 2018, by Myles Boisen Produced by Fred Frith

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Fred Frith
Though the point of reference for many remains the iconic band Henry Cow, which he co-founded in 1968 and which broke up more than 30 years ago, Fred Frith has never really stood still for an instant.

In bands such as Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog, Tense Serenity, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Eye to Ear, and most recently Cosa Brava, he has always held true to his roots in rock and folk music, while exploring influences that range from the literary works of Eduardo Galeano to the art installations of Cornelia Parker.

The release of the seminal Guitar Solos in 1974 enabled him to simultaneously carve out a place for himself in the international improvised music scene, not only as an acclaimed solo performer but in the company of artists as diverse as Han Bennink, Chris Cutler, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Evelyn Glennie, Ikue Mori, Louis Sclavis, Stevie Wishart, Wu Fei, Camel Zekri, John Zorn, and scores of others.

He has also developed a personal compositional language in works written for Arditti Quartet, Asko Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Modern, Concerto Köln, and ROVA Sax Quartet, for example. Fred has been active as a composer for dance since the early 1980s, working with choreographers Bebe Miller, François Verret, and especially long-time collaborator and friend Amanda Miller, with whom he has created a compelling body of work over the last twenty years.

His film soundtracks (for award-winning films like Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Rivers and Tides and Touch the Sound, Peter Mettler’s Gambling, Gods, and LSD, and Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow’s Thirst, to name a few) won him a lifetime achievement award from Prague’s “Music on Film, Film on Music” Festival (MOFFOM) in 2007. The following year he received Italy’s Demetrio Stratos Prize (previously given to Diamanda Galas and Meredith Monk) for his life’s work in experimental music, and in 2010 was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in his home county of Yorkshire.

Fred currently teaches in the Music Department at Mills College in Oakland, California (renowned for over fifty years as the epicenter of the American experimental tradition), and in the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland.

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