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Guitarist Fred Frith is one of the most celebrated and influential figures in the world of improvisational and avant-garde music. Capable of artful and technically skillful performances, Frith is also willing to approach the guitar in unconventional ways in pursuit of new sounds and unusual tonal colors.
Dear Life (for classical guitar solo) (2024). Memorabilia (for classical guitar duo) (2023) Truth is a Four Letter Word (opera, for counter-tenor, mezzo-soprano and large ensemble) (2022)
FRED FRITH GUITAR QUARTET (with Nick Didkovsky, René Lussier, Mark Stewart): Upbeat (1998) Ayaya Moses (1997) SKELETON CREW (with Tom Cora and Zeena Parkins): Free Dirt (2021) (live recordings 1983-1986) The Country of Blinds (1986) Learn to Talk (1984) MASSACRE (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher): Killing Time (1981)
Fred Frith. UK. Best known for his guitar work, multi-instrumentalist, composer & improvisor Fred Frith was a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, as well as Art Bears, Massacre, & Skeleton Crew.
Best known for his guitar work, multi-instrumentalist, composer & improvisor Fred Frith was a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, as well as Art Bears, Massacre, & Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated w/ musicians incl Robert Wyatt, the Residents, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton.
Fred Frith's second post-Henry Cow solo album continued the project, begun on Gravity, of Fred collaborating with a range of different bands, so Fred's multi-instrumentalist performances provide the thematic connection strands but the different band approaches keep things fresh.
Fred Frith esiintymässä Lissabonissa vuonna 2006.. Fred Frith (s.17. helmikuuta 1949 Heathfield, Englanti) on brittiläinen muusikko ja säveltäjä.Hän tuli tunnetuksi kitaristina Henry Cow-yhtyeessä, jota hän oli perustamassa vuonna 1968. 1970-luvulla alkaneella soolourallaan hän on kehittänyt improvisaatioon, itse rakentamiinsa kitaraefekteihin ja muokattuihin kitaroihin perustuvaa soittotekniikkaa. 1980-luvulta alkaen hän on myös säveltänyt musiikkia teatteri- ja ...
