Fred Frith

Fred Frith
Born: Feb 17, 1949 in Heathfield, England
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Genre: Avant-Garde
Styles: Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Free Improvisation, Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde, Modern Composition, Experimental, Canterbury Scene
Biography: In the '60s and '70s, much (if not most) contemporary improvisation was jazz-based. That began to change in the '80s, when a significant number of rock musicians began exploring the possibilities of free improvisation and new classical forms. Fred Frith is one of the more prominent. Co-founder of the ...Read full biography
Traffic Continues
Released: 2000
Label: Winter & Winter
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For the past quarter century the varied recordings of musical renegade Fred Frith have provided a far-flung tour of the worldwide avant-garde fringe. On Traffic Continues, he composes for and plays guitar ...Read full review
Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance)
Released: 1988
Label: SST
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"Sadness, Its Bleached Bones Behind Us," and "You Are What You Eat" are unrelenting slices of hard-edged sounds over a pulse. "The Palace of Laughter, The Technology of Tears" is an imaginative, intense, ...Read full review
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