Both bassist Barry Guy and guitarist Fred Frith are key artists of Switzerland's Intakt label catalog, but surprisingly the two have never shared a stage together; Intakt had a feeling about their pairing and brought them into the studio, this superb duo album being the result in 10 brilliant tracks intertwining acoustic double bass and electric guitar.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2014 Country: Switzerland Packaging: Jewel Case Recorded at Studio Klangdach, Guntershausen, August 14, 2007, by Willy Strehler.
6. A Single Street Stretched Tight By The Waters 1:35
7. Climbing The Ladder 3:23
8. Dependence Over The Abyss 5:04
9. Walking On Wire 1:56
10. Moments Full Of Many Lives 18:15
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"Electric guitar and the amplified acoustic bass - two distinctive sound generators capable of creating a picture of almost symphonic dimensions. Intakt Records' inspirational director Patrik Landolt had a feel about the outcome and brought us into the studio of Willy Strehler in Switzerland to fulfill a long standing ambition to record an album of music together. Never having performed on the same stage, we created a music which is syllogistic in the sense that the end product is drawn from two very different musical lives each reflecting our own history. But with the medium of improvisation being collaborative, the conclusion was an eventful working out of possibilities, both of us intently "listening in" to the other's sound world and extending our own techniques to create surprising new colours. This recording experience represented a warm symbiotic encounter even with the result that each of us independently suggested the poet Robert Lax as the generator for track titles. Asurprising but confirmational pointer to where the music had led us."-Barry Guy, 2014