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Frith's 75 minute intense improvisatory journey work is a graphic structural model by which the most diverse types of musical events are linked together along a time line. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 4.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: 7640120191764 Label: Intakt Catalog ID: INT176 Squidco Product Code: 14277 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2011 Country: Switzerland Packaging: Jewel Tray Recorded at SWR Studio 1 in Baden-Baden on November 29th, 2007, and in Saarbrucken on December 1st, 2007 by Wolfgang Bachner. Personnel: Fred Frith-guitar, home-made instruments Wu Fei-Guzheng Anantha Krishnan-mridangam, tablas Tilman Muller-trumpet Patrice Scanlon-electronics Daniela Cattivelli-electronics Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() 1. Clearing Customs 1:07:50 |
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![]() "Clearing Customs" is based on an approximately 75 minute long, graphic structural model by which the most diverse types of musical events are linked together along a time line. A notated instrumental loop which can be heard in different versions in the course of the piece, serves as a thematic filler between these heterogeneous passages. Fred Frith's choice of instruments was in accordance with the classic jazz criteria: strings, skins, breath and, additionally, circuitry, meaning electronics. The line-up of the group, however, veered away from the conventional selection of jazz instruments - not least through the integration of Asian instruments and electronics. Fred Frith follows the lead taken by the concept of the British theatre maker Peter Brook, who tries to integrate artists with completely different cultural experiences into an ensemble. Also Brook's vision of a 'poor theatre', which can do almost without stage design and only gains its intense theatricality by means of the interaction of its actors, has influenced this septet's way of playing. It is not the grand, flaunting gestures that define the quality of his music but the interaction, the listening to each other, the fine tuning of sounds."-Reinhard Kager, from the liner notes ![]() Intakt Improvised Music European Improv, Free Jazz & Related Cultural Musics from Around the World Electro-Acoustic Electro-Acoustic Improv Frith, Fred Staff Picks & Recommended Items 2011 Top 40 Free Improvisation Sextet Recordings Instant Rewards |