• 2-CD SET
Fred Frith's 1999 box set, presenting a large, flexible ensemble project using marked photographs and rules as scores while Frith directs and conducts as well as performing; permanent members are Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins, otherwise the balance of the 44 strong ensemble changes; recordings here are taken from 5 concerts, including the first in 1992 at AngelicA.
PERSONNEL:
- Fred Frith (guitar, violin)
- Han Bennink (drums)
- Olivia Bignardi (clarinet, bass clarinet)
- Chris Cutler (drums)
- Lesli Dalaba (trumpet)
- Jean Derome (flute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone)
- Guy Klucevsek (accordion)
- Hans Koch (clarinet, daxophone)
- Rene Lussier (Daxophone, guitar)
- Bart Maris (trumpet)
- Jean-Marc Montera (guitar)
- Zeena Parkins (accordion, electric harp, harp)
- Co Streiff (baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone)
- Peter Vermeersch (clarinet, tenor saxophone)
- Takashi Yamane (clarinet)
- Nicola Zonca (Marimba)
- Recorded at Angelica Festival Internazionale di Musica, in Bologna, Italy, in May, 1992
- Festival Internationale de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, in Victoriaville, Canada, , in October, 1992
- Time Festival, at Vooruit, in Gent, Belgium, in May, 1994
- at the Jazz Marathon, in Groningen, The netherlands, in October, 1994
- at Kulturzentrum Dieselstrasse, in Esslingen, Germany, in October, 1995.
TRACKS:
- CD ONE
- 01. I Goongerah
- 02. II Tokyo
- 03. 1-1.III Firewood
- 04. I Screen
- 05. II Dry Stone I
- 06. III Dry Stone II
- 07. I Bricks For Six
- 08. II Vlissingen
- 09. Skylight
- 10. Drystone II
- 11. Bricks For Six
- 12. I Dry Stone I
- 13. II Dry Stone II
- 14. I Skylight (Extract)
- 15. II High Tension (Extract)
- 16. Roof
- 17. I Screen
- 18. II High Tension
- 19. III Zurich
- 20. Athens
- 21. Firewood
- CD TWO
- 01. I Green
- 02. II Drystone II
- 03. III Improvisation
- 04. IV Roof
- 05. V Improvisation
- 06. VI Rejkyavik
- 07.VII Ulissingen
- 08. VIII Improvisation
- 09. IX Skylight V (Extract)
- 10. I Improvisation
- 11. II Tokyo (Extract)
- 12. Screen
- 13. Jahresringe
- 14. Firewood