Fred Frith discography

Fred Frith at a piano recording session at New, Improved Recording in Oakland, California, September 2006.

Fred Frith appears on over 400 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the Discography of Fred Frith by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier.^[1]

Bands

Henry Cow

Legend (1973, LP, Virgin, UK)
Unrest (1974, LP, Virgin, UK)
Concerts (1976, 2xLP, Caroline, UK)
Western Culture (1979, LP, Broadcast, UK)
The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box (1991, 3xCD, East Side Digital, US)
Henry Cow Box (2006, 7xCD, Recommended, UK)
Stockholm & Göteborg (2008, CD, Recommended, UK)
The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (2009, 9xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK)

Henry Cow / Slapp Happy

Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin, UK)
In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin, UK)

Art Bears

Hopes and Fears (1978, LP, Recommended, UK)
Winter Songs (1979, LP, Recommended, UK)
The World as It Is Today (1981, LP, Recommended, UK)
The Art Box (2004, 6xCD, Recommended, UK)

Aksak Maboul

Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits (1980, LP, Crammed Discs, Belgium)

Material

Memory Serves (1981, LP, Celluloid, France)
One Down (1982, LP, Celluloid, France)
Live from Soundscape (1994, CD, DIW, Japan)

Massacre

Killing Time (1981, LP, Celluloid, France)
Funny Valentine (1998, CD, Tzadik, US)
Meltdown (2001, CD, Tzadik, US)
Lonely Heart (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
Love Me Tender (2013, CD, Tzadik, US)

Skeleton Crew

Learn to Talk (1984, LP, Rift, US / Recommended, Europe)
The Country of Blinds (1986, LP, Rift, US / Recommended, Europe)
Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds (1990, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
Etymology (1997, CD-ROM, Rarefaction, US)

Duck and Cover

Rē Records Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1985, LP, Recommended, UK)

French Frith Kaiser Thompson

Live, Love, Larf & Loaf (1987, LP, Rhino, US)
Invisible Means (1990, LP, Demon, UK, Windham Hill, US)

Naked City

Naked City (1990, LP, Elektra/Nonesuch, US)
Torture Garden (1990, LP, Elektra/Nonesuch, US)
Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles (1992, CD, Avant, Japan)
Grand Guignol (1992, CD, Avant, Japan)
Leng Tch'e (1992, CD, Toy's Factory, Japan)
Radio (1993, CD, Avant, Japan)
Absinthe (1993, CD, Avant, Japan)
Naked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 (2002, CD, Tzadik, US)

Death Ambient

Death Ambient (1995, CD, Tzadik, US)
Synaesthesia (1999, CD, Tzadik, US)
Drunken Forest (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet

Ayaya Moses (1997, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
Upbeat (1999, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

Maybe Monday

Saturn's Finger (1999, CD, Buzz, Netherlands)
Digital Wildlife (2002, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
Unsquare (2008, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Keep the Dog

That House We Lived In (2003, 2xCD, Fred, UK)

Cosa Brava

Ragged Atlas (2010, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
The Letter (2012, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Fred Frith Trio

Another Day in Fucking Paradise (2016, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Solo

Guitar Solos (1974, LP, Caroline Records, UK)
Gravity (1980, LP, Ralph Records, US)
Speechless (1981, LP, Ralph Records, US)
Live in Japan (1982, 2xLP, Recommended Records, Japan)
Cheap at Half the Price (1983, LP, Ralph Records, US)
Quartets (1994, CD, RecRec Music, Switzerland)
Eye to Ear (1997, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986–1996) (1999, CD, I Dischi di Angelica, Italy)
Clearing (2001, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001 (2002, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Eye to Ear II (2004, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Eleventh Hour (2005, 2xCD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
To Sail, to Sail (2008, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Impur II (2009, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Eye to Ear III (2010, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Clearing Customs (2011, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Music for Dance

The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) (1988, 2xLP, RecRec Music, Switzerland)
Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) (1996, CD, RecRec Music, Switzerland)
The Previous Evening (Music for Dance Volume 4) (1997, CD, Recommended Records, UK)^{[nb 1]}
Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3) (2002, CD, Fred Records, UK)
The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance Volume 5) (2006, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) (2009, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (2015, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Propaganda (2015, CD, Fred Records, UK)

Soundtracks

The Top of His Head (1989, LP, Crammed Discs, Belgium) – original soundtrack to the film The Top of His Head by Peter Mettler
Step Across the Border (1990, 2xLP, RecRec Music, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Step Across the Border by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
Middle of the Moment (1995, CD, RecRec Music, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
Rivers and Tides (2003, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany) – original soundtrack to the film Rivers and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer

Composer only

Pacifica (1998, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Freedom in Fragments (2002, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
Impur (2006, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Back to Life (2008, CD, Tzadik Records, US)

Compositions featured

Rova Saxophone Quartet: Bingo (Victo, 1998) – features "Water Under the Bridge"

Collaborations

With various artists

Guitar Solos 2 (1976, LP, Caroline Records, UK)
Guitar Solos 3 (1979, LP, Rift Records, US)

Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser

With Friends Like These (1979, LP, Metalanguage, US)
Who Needs Enemies? (1983, LP, Metalanguage, US)

With The Residents

Commercial Album (1980, LP, Ralph Records, US)

Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton

Voice of America (1982, LP, Rift Records, US)

Fred Frith and Totsuzen Danball

Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81 (1982, CT, Floor Records, Japan)

Fred Frith and Chris Cutler

Live in Prague and Washington (1983, LP, Recommended Records, UK)
Live in Trondheim, Berlin, Limoges (1994, CD, Recommended Records, UK)
2 Gentlemen in Verona (2000, CD, Recommended Records, UK)
The Stone: Issue Two (2007, CD, Tzadik Records, US)

Lol Coxhill and Fred Frith

French Gigs (1983, LP, AAA, France)

Fred Frith and René Lussier

Nous Autres (1987, LP, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

Fred Frith and Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd)

Dropera (1991, LP, RecRec Music, Switzerland)

Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson

Live Improvisations (1992, CD, Woof Records, UK)

Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti

Helter Skelter (1992, CD, RecRec Music, Switzerland)

Fred Frith and Marc Ribot

Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode (1994, CD, Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)

Fred Frith and John Zorn

The Art of Memory (1995, CD, Incus Records, UK)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 (2004, CD, Tzadik Records, US)
The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred Records, UK)
Late Works (2010, CD, Tzadik Records, US)

Fred Frith and Jean-Pierre Drouet

En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (1997, CD, Transes Europeennes, France)

Percy Howard, Charles Hayward, Fred Frith and Bill Laswell

Meridiem (1998, CD, Materiali Sonori, Italy)

Fred Frith and Ensemble Modern

Traffic Continues (2000, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)

Mark Dresser, Fred Frith and Ikue Mori

Later ... (2000, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

Fred Frith, Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis

I Dream of You Jumping (2001, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

Michel Wintsch, Fred Frith, Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin

Whisperings (2002, CD, RecRec Music, Switzerland)

Fred Frith, Anne Bourne and John Oswald

Dearness (2002, CD, Spool, Canada)

Fred Frith, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen

All is Bright, But it is Not Day (2002, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

Derek Bailey, Antoine Berthiaume and Fred Frith

Soshin (2003, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

Fred Frith, Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel

Tempted to Smile (2003, CD, Spool, Canada)

Lesli Dalaba, Fred Frith, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt

Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt (2003, CD, Accretions Records, US)

Toychestra and Fred Frith

What Leave Behind (2004, CD, S.K. Records, France)

Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart

The Compass, Log and Lead (2005, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Rova::Orchestrova

Electric Ascension (Atavistic, 2005)

Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith

Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 (2006, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

Janet Feder and Fred Frith

Ironic Universe (2006, CD+DVD, Ad Hoc Records, US)

Fred Frith and Chris Brown

Cutter Heads (2007, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Darren Johnston, Fred Frith, Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches Smith

Reasons for Moving (2007, CD, Not Two, US)

Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie

The Sugar Factory (2007, CD, Tzadik Records, US)

Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community) and Fred Frith

Drift (2008, CD, Poise, Germany)

Fred Frith and Danielle Roger

Pas de Deux (2008, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett

Still Urban (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
The Big Picture (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Chris Cutler, Thomas Dimuzio and Fred Frith

Golden State (2010, LP, Recommended Records, UK)^{[nb 2]}

Fred Frith and Annie Lewandowski

Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (2011, CD, Ninth World Records)

Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith and Louis Sclavis

Contretemps etc ... (2011, CD, In Situ, France)

Joëlle Léandre, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Urs Leimgruber

MMM Quartet – Live at the Metz' Arsenal (2012, CD, Leo Records, UK)^{[nb 3]}
MMM Quartet – Oakland/Lisboa (2015, CD, RogueArt, France)

Fred Frith and Michel Doneda

Fred Frith Michel Doneda (2014, CD, Vand'Œuvre, France)

Fred Frith and Barry Guy

Backscatter Bright Blue (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Lotte Anker and Fred Frith

Edge of the Light (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Fred Frith and John Butcher

The Natural Order (2014, CD, Northern Spy, US)

Fred Frith and Evan Parker

Hello, I Must Be Going (2015, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

Katharina Weber, Fred Frith and Fredy Studer

It Rolls (2015, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Lindsay Cooper, Fred Frith, Lars Hollmer and Gianni Gebbia

Angels on the Edge of Time (2015, CD, Angelica, Italy) – recorded at the 1993 Angelica Festival

Fred Frith and Helen Mirra

Kwangsi Quail (2015, LP, Shhpuma, Portugal)

Fred Frith and Darren Johnston

Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (2016, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)

Footnotes

↑ The Previous Evening was designated "Music for Dance Volume 4" after Accidental was released.
↑ Golden State is an LP-only release; "a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically." – Chris Cutler.^[2]
↑ MMM stands for "MillsMusicMafia", with reference to Mills College where Léandre, Frith and Curran teach music.^[3]

References

↑ Ramond, Michel; Roussel, Patrice; Vuilleumier, Stephane. "Discography of Fred Frith". New York Downtown Scene and other miscellaneous discographies. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
↑ Cutler, Chris. "CUTLER, CHRIS, THOMAS DIMUZIO, FRED FRITH: Golden State (LP)". ReR Megacorp. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
↑ "Joelle Leandre / Fred Frith / Alvin Curran / Urs Leimgruber: MMM". Leo Records. Retrieved 2012-04-17.

External links

Fred Frith

Henry Cow Art Bears Massacre Skeleton Crew Keep the Dog Duck and Cover French Frith Kaiser Thompson Death Ambient Fred Frith Guitar Quartet Maybe Monday Cosa Brava Aksak Maboul Material Naked City

Discography	Guitar Solos Gravity Speechless Live in Japan Cheap at Half the Price The Technology of Tears The Top of His Head Step Across the Border Quartets Middle of the Moment Allies Eye to Ear The Previous Evening Pacifica Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire Clearing Freedom in Fragments Accidental Prints Rivers and Tides Eye to Ear II Eleventh Hour Impur The Happy End Problem Back to Life To Sail, to Sail Impur II Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air Eye to Ear III Clearing Customs Field Days (The Amanda Loops) Propaganda

Related articles	Fred Frith discography Fred Records Step Across the Border

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