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Fred Frith
Person · male · United Kingdom · Heathfield · born 1949 · recording since 1974
English musician, composer and improvisor (born 1949)
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1940s
1970s
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Debut release: Guitar Solos
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1980s
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Album: The Technology of Tears (and Other Music for Dance and Theatre)
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1990s
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Album: Quartets: Lelekovice (String Quartet No 1) / The As Usual Dance Towards The Other Flight To What Is Not
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Album: Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures 1987-2001
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Album: Eleventh Hour (Arditti Quartet / Uwe Dierksen / William Winant)
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Biography
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Biography
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Best known for his guitar playing, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. He was also a member of the groups Art Bears, Massacre, and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with numerous musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, the Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell, Iva Bittová, Jad Fair, Kramer, the ARTE Quartett, and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including Traffic Continues (1996, performed 1998 by Frith and Ensemble Modern) and Freedom in Fragments (1993, performed 1999 by Rova Saxophone Quartet). Frith produces most of his own music, and has also produced many albums by other musicians, including Curlew, the Muffins, Etron Fou Leloublan, and Orthotonics.
He is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel's 1990 documentary Step Across the Border. Frith also appears in the Canadian documentary Act of God, which is about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. He has contributed to a number of music publications, including New Musical Express and Trouser Press, and has conducted improvising workshops across the world. His career spans over four decades and he appears on over 400 albums, and he still performs actively throughout the world.
Frith was awarded the 2008 Demetrio Stratos Prize for his career achievements in experimental music. The prize was established in 2005 in honour of experimental vocalist Demetrio Stratos, of the Italian group Area, who died in 1979. In 2010 Frith received an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England, in recognition of his contribution to music. Frith was Professor of Composition in the Music Department at Mills College in Oakland, California, until his retirement in 2018. He is the brother of Simon Frith, a music critic and sociologist, and Chris Frith, a psychologist at University College London.
Musical career
Frith was born in Heathfield in East Sussex, England into a family where music was considered an essential part of life. He was given the nickname "Fred" at school after the motorcycle road racer Freddie Frith. Frith started violin lessons at the age of five and became a member of his school orchestra, but at 13 switched to guitar after watching a group imitating a popular instrumental band at the time, the Shadows. He decided to learn how to play guitar and get into a band. Frith taught himself guitar from a book of guitar chords and soon found himself in a school group called the Chaperones, playing Shadows and Beatles covers. However, when he started hearing blues music from the likes of Snooks Eaglin and Alexis Korner it changed his whole approach to the guitar, and by the time he was 15, the Chaperones had become a blues band. Frith's first public performances were in 1967 in folk clubs in northern England, where he sang and played traditional and blues songs.
Besides the blues, Frith started listening to any music that had guitar in it, including folk, classical, ragtime, and flamenco. He also listened to Indian, Japanese, and Balinese music and was particularly drawn to East European music after a Yugoslav schoolfriend taught him folk tunes from his home. Frith went to Cambridge University in 1967, where his musical horizons were expanded further by the philosophies of John Cage and Frank Zappa's manipulation of rock music. Frith graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a BA (English literature) in 1970 (and by Cambridge custom received a pro forma MA in 1974), but the real significance of Cambridge for him was that the seminal avant-rock group Henry Cow formed there.
Henry Cow
Frith met Tim Hodgkinson, a fellow student, in a blues club at Cambridge University in 1968. "We'd never met before, and he had an alto sax, and I had my violin, and we just improvised this ghastly screaming noise for about half an hour." Something clicked and, recognizing their mutual open-minded approach to music, Frith and Hodgkinson formed a band there and then. They called it Henry Cow and they remained with the band until its demise in 1978.
Frith composed a number of the band's notable pieces, including "Nirvana for Mice" and "Ruins". While guitar was his principal instrument, he also played violin (drawing on his classical training), bass guitar, piano, and xylophone.
In November 1973, Frith (and other members of Henry Cow) participated in a live-in-the-studio performance of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells for the BBC. It is available on Oldfield's Elements DVD.
Guitar Solos
After Henry Cow's first album, Frith released Guitar Solos
Guitar SolosSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 8 tracksA1Hello Music1:31A2Glass c/w Steel5:35A3Ghosts3:12A4Out of Their Heads (On Locoweed)8:24B1Not Forgotten1:55B2Hollow Music2:44B3Heat c/w Moment1:43B4No Birds12:46 in 1974, his first solo album and a glimpse at what he had been doing with his guitar. The album comprised eight tracks of unaccompanied and improvised music played on prepared guitars. It was recorded in four days, at the Kaleidophon Studios in London's Camden Town, without any overdubbing.
When it was released, Guitar Solos was considered a landmark album because of its innovative and experimental approach to guitar playing. The January 1983 edition of DownBeat magazine remarked that Guitar Solos "... must have stunned listeners of the day. Even today that album stands up as uniquely innovative and undeniably daring." It also attracted the attention of some musicians, including Brian Eno, resulting in Frith playing guitar on two of Eno's albums, Before and After Science (1977) and Music for Films (1978).
Between October and December 1974, Frith contributed a series of ten articles to the British weekly music newspaper New Musical Express entitled "Great Rock Solos of Our Time". In them he analysed prominent rock guitarists of the day and their contribution to the development of the rock guitar, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Frank Zappa.
Post-Henry Cow
While recording Henry Cow's last album, differences emerged between the group members over the album's content. Frith and Chris Cutler favoured song-oriented material, while Hodgkinson and Lindsay Cooper wanted purely instrumental compositions. As a compromise, Frith and Cutler agreed, early in 1978, to release the songs already created on their own album, Hopes and Fears, under the name Art Bears (with Dagmar Krause). The instrumental material was recorded by Henry Cow on Western Culture later that year, after which the band split. The Art Bears trio continued purely as a studio group until 1981, releasing two more albums, Winter Songs in 1979 and The World as It Is Today in 1981.
During this time Frith also released Gravity (1980), his second solo album, recorded at Norrgården Nyvla in Uppsala, Sweden with Swedish group Samla Mammas Manna, and at the Catch-a-Buzz studio in Rockville, Maryland with United States band The Muffins. It showed Frith breaking free from the highly structured and orchestrated music of Henry Cow and experimenting with folk and dance music. "Norrgården Nyvla" was also the title of one of the tracks on the album and is considered one of Frith's most recognisable tunes.
New York
Towards the end of 1979, Frith relocated to New York City, where he immediately hooked up with the local avant-garde/downtown music scene. The impact on him was uplifting: "... New York was a profoundly liberating experience for me; for the first time I felt that I could be myself and not try to live up to what I imagined people were thinking about me." Frith met and began recording with a number of musicians and groups, including Henry Kaiser (With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?), Bob Ostertag (Getting a Head, Voice of America), Tom Cora, Eugene Chadbourne, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, the Residents, Material, the Golden Palominos, and Curlew. He spent some 14 years in New York, during which time he joined a few bands, including John Zorn's Naked City (in which Frith played bass) and French Frith Kaiser Thompson (consisting of John French, Frith, Henry Kaiser and Richard Thompson). Frith also started three bands himself, namely Massacre, Skeleton Crew, and Keep the Dog.
Massacre was formed in 1980 with bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher. A high energy experimental rock band, they toured the United States and Europe in 1980 and 1981, and released one album, Killing Time (1981), recorded at Martin Bisi's later-to-be historic studio in Brooklyn. Massacre split in 1981 when Maher left, but later reformed again in 1998 when drummer Charles Hayward joined. The new Massacre released three more albums.
Skeleton Crew, a collaboration with Tom Cora from 1982 to 1986, was an experimental group noted for its live improvisations where Frith (guitar, violin, keyboards, drums) and Cora (cello, bass guitar, homemade drums and contraptions) played a number of instruments simultaneously. They performed extensively across Europe, North America and Japan and released Learn to Talk in 1984. Zeena Parkins (electric harp and keyboards) joined in 1984 and the trio released The Country of Blinds in 1986. In October 1983 Skeleton Crew joined Duck and Cover, a commission from the Berlin Jazz Festival, for a performance in West Berlin, followed by another in February 1984 in East Berlin.
Frith formed Keep the Dog in 1989, a sextet and review band for performing selections of his extensive repertoire of compositions from the previous 15 years. The lineup was Frith (guitar, violin, bass guitar), René Lussier (guitar, bass guitar), Jean Derome (winds), Zeena Parkins (piano, synthesizer, harp, accordion), Bob Ostertag (sampling keyboard), and Kevin Norton (drums, percussion). Later Charles Hayward replaced Norton on drums. The group existed until mid-1991, performing live in Europe, North America and the former Soviet Union. A double CD, That House We Lived In, from their final performances in Austria, Germany and Italy in May and June 1991, was released in 2003.
Other projects
During the 1980s, Frith began writing music for dance, film, and theatre, and a number of his solo albums from this time reflect this genre, including The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre)
The Technology of Tears (and Other Music for Dance and Theatre)Spotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 5 tracks1Sadness, Its Bones Bleached Behind Us13:052You Are What You Eat18:413The Palace of Laughter, the Technology of Tears10:084Jigsaw14:395Jigsaw Coda3:04 (1988), Middle of the Moment (1995), Allies (Music for Dance, Volume 2) (1996), and Rivers and Tides (2003). Exploring new forms of composition, Frith also experimented with chance or accidental compositions, often created by building music around "found sounds" and field recordings, examples of which can be found on Accidental (Music for Dance, Volume 3) (2002) and Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001 (2002). He was featured in 'Crossing Bridges', a 1983 music programme based around jazz guitar improvisation, and broadcast by Channel 4
As a composer, Frith began composing works for other musicians and groups in the late 1980s, including the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Modern, and Arditti Quartet. He composed and performed the song "Choral Ode 2" for the 1993 opera Agamemnon. In the late 1990s, Frith established his own Fred Frith Guitar Quartet consisting of Frith, René Lussier, Nick Didkovsky, and Mark Stewart. Their guitar music, varying from "tuneful and pretty, to noisy, aggressive and quite challenging", appears on two albums, Ayaya Moses (1997) and Upbeat (1999), both on Lussier's own Ambiances Magnétiques label.
The ex-Henry Cow members have always maintained close contact with each other and Frith still collaborates with many of them, including Chris Cutler and Tim Hodgkinson. Cutler and Frith have been touring Europe, Asia, and the Americas since 1978, and have given dozens of duo performances. Three albums from some of these concerts have been released by Recommended Records. In December 2006, Cutler, Frith, and Hodgkinson performed together at the Stone in New York City, their first concert performance since Henry Cow's demise in 1978.
In 1995, Frith moved to Stuttgart in Germany to live with his wife, German photographer Heike Liss, and their children Finn and Lucia. Between 1994 and 1996, Frith was composer-in-residence at L'Ecole Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne, France.
Frith relocated to the United States in 1997 to become Composer-in-Residence at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1999 he was appointed the Luther B. Marchant Professor of Composition in the Music Department at Mills, where he taught composition, contemporary performance and improvisation. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Music at Mills, after having retired in 2018. While Frith had never studied music in college, his credentials of over forty years of continuous practice and self-discovery got him the position. He has, however, maintained that "most of my students are better qualified to teach composition than I am," and that he learns as much from them as they learn from him.
In March 1997 Frith formed the electro-acoustic improvisation and experimental trio Maybe Monday with saxophonist Larry Ochs from Rova Saxophone Quartet and koto player Miya Masaoka. Between 1997 and 2008, they toured the United States, Canada, and Europe, and released three albums. In March 2008, Frith formed Cosa Brava, an experimental rock and improvisation quintet with Zeena Parkins from Skeleton Crew and Keep the Dog, Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and the Norman Conquest. They toured Europe in April 2008, and performed at the 25th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada, the following month.
In 2013, Frith formed the Fred Frith Trio in Oakland, California, an improvising group with bassist Jason Hoopes and drummer/percussionist Jordan Glenn, both from the Oakland experimental song group Jack O' The Clock. The Trio toured Europe in February 2015, recorded a studio album, Another Day in Fucking Paradise, in January 2016, and toured Europe again in February 2017. The album was well received by music critics. In January 2018 the trio recorded their second album, Closer to the Ground, which was released in September 2018.
Frith supplied guitar to the albums The Fates (2013) and Folklore (2017) by Matthew Edwards and the Unfortunates.
Frith has also collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, Lol Coxhill, Lars Hollmer, and the Scottish deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Step Across the Border
Step Across the Border is a 1990 documentary film on Fred Frith, written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, and released in Germany and Switzerland. It was filmed in Japan, Europe, and the United States, and also features musicians René Lussier, Iva Bittová, Tom Cora, Tim Hodgkinson, Bob Ostertag, and John Zorn.
Fred Records
In 2002, Fred Frith created his own record label, Fred Records, an imprint of Recommended Records, to re-release his back catalogue of recordings and previously unreleased material.
Personal life
During the early years of Henry Cow, Frith was married to Liza White, a teacher in Cambridge. They wed in 1970, but divorced in 1974 after Frith's commitment to the band left little private life for the couple. In the early- to mid-1980s, after Henry Cow had split up and Frith had moved to New York City, he was married to Tina Curran, a musician and artist. She played bass guitar on several tracks on Frith's albums at the time, and did the photography and artwork for a number of his albums during that period. In the early 1990s Frith married German photographer and performance artist, Heike Liss. She has done the artwork for many of Frith's albums, and has performed with him on several occasions. They lived in Germany in the mid-1990s, then moved to California where Frith taught at Mills College until his retirement in 2018.
Guitars and playing technique
Fred Frith has used a number of different guitars, including homemade instruments, over the years, depending on the type of music he is playing. For the more structured and refined music he has often used a Gibson ES-345, for example on his solo album, Gravity
GravitySpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 14 tracksA1The Boy Beats the Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany)A2Spring Any Day NowA3Don’t Cry for MeA4The Hands of the JugglerA5Norrgarden NyvlaA6Year of the MonkeyB1What a DilemmaB2Crack in the ConcreteB3Come AcrossB4Dancing in the StreetB5My Enemy Is a Bad ManB6Slap DanceB7A Career in Real EstateB8Dancing in Rockville Maryland. For the heavier "rock" sound, as in Massacre, he has used an old 1961 solid body Burns guitar, created by the British craftsman Jim Burns. On his landmark Guitar Solos album, Frith used a modified 1936 Gibson K-11 guitar (q.v. for details).
For Frith's early unstructured music, as with Henry Kaiser on With Friends Like These, and his early table-top guitar solo performances, he used a homemade six- and eight-string double-neck guitar created by a friend, Charles Fletcher. Frith told DownBeat magazine in 1983: "It was the one and only guitar that he ever built ... he constructed it mainly out of old pieces from other guitars that I had, and for the body I think he used an old door." The possibilities offered by homemade instruments prompted Frith to start creating his own guitars, basically slabs of wood on which he mounted a pickup, a bridge, and strings stretched over metal screws. "The basic design of the instrument is supposed to be as rudimentary and flexible as possible," Frith said, "so I can use an electric drill to bore holes into the body of it to achieve certain sounds ... ."
Frith uses a variety of implements to play guitar, from traditional guitar picks to violin bows, drum sticks, egg beaters, paint brushes, lengths of metal chain, and other found objects. Frith remarked: "It's more to do with my interest in found objects and the use of certain kinds of textures which have an effect on the string ... the difference between the touch of stone, the touch of glass, the touch of wood, the touch of paper – those kinds of basic elements that you're using against the surface of the strings which produce different sounds."
In a typical solo improvising concert, Frith would lay a couple of his homemade guitars flat on a table and play them with a collection of found objects (varying from concert to concert). He would drop objects, like ball bearings, dried beans, and rice on the strings while stroking, scraping, and hitting them with whatever was on hand. Later he added a live sampler to his on-stage equipment, which he controlled with pedals. The sampler enabled him to dynamically capture and loop guitar sounds, over which he would capture and loop new sounds, and so on, until he had a bed of repeated patterns on top of which he would then begin his solo performance.
Effects and amplification
Effect pedals
Pro Co RAT distortion
Boss FV-50L volume foot controller
Boss RC20-XL Looper
DigiTech Whammy 4
Line 6 DL4 delay
EBow
Electroharmonix POG
Amplification
Fender Amplifiers
Compositions
Since the late 1980s, Fred Frith has composed a number of longer works. The following is a selection (years indicating time of composition).
Documentaries
1990 Step Across the Border – a documentary on Frith by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
1991 Streetwise – by Charles Castella about Frith's work in Marseille with "unemployed rock musicians"
2000 Le voyage immobile – about Frith's trio with Louis Sclavis and Jean-Pierre Drouet for France 3 national TV
2004 Touch the Sound – by Thomas Riedelsheimer about Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie and her collaboration with Frith
2007 Attwenger Adventure – on Austrian folk-punk duo Attwenger by Markus Kaiser-Mühlecke, with special appearances by Frith rehearsing and performing live with Attwenger and Wolfgang "I-Wolf" Schlögl at Music Unlimited XX. in Wels, Austria.
2009 Act of God – by Jennifer Baichwal about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning, with music by Frith and others, and a segment showing Frith conducting an experiment to measure the effect of improvisation on brain waves
Works cited
Piekut, Benjamin (2019). Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-47800-405-9.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 111 | 98.3th |
| Studio albums | 78 | 99.6th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 81 | 99.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 52 | 92.5th |
| Genres | 10 | 96.5th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (111 release groups · 78 studio albums)
Albums · 78
1974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 37:50
A1Hello Music1:31A2Glass c/w Steel5:35A3Ghosts3:12A4Out of Their Heads (On Locoweed)8:24B1Not Forgotten1:55B2Hollow Music2:44B3Heat c/w Moment1:43B4No Birds12:461976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 48:05
A1Water / Struggle / The North11:05A2Only Reflect4:00A3Brixton Winter 19769:40B1Avantlore3:05B2Vain Yookts3:00B3Donnerkuhle5:05B4Virginal6:20B5Praxis4:00B6The Lost Chord1:501980 · studio album
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A1The Boy Beats the Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany)A2Spring Any Day NowA3Don’t Cry for MeA4The Hands of the JugglerA5Norrgarden NyvlaA6Year of the MonkeyB1What a DilemmaB2Crack in the ConcreteB3Come AcrossB4Dancing in the StreetB5My Enemy Is a Bad ManB6Slap DanceB7A Career in Real EstateB8Dancing in Rockville Maryland1981 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks
A1Kick the Can, Part 1A2Carnival on Wall StreetA3Ahead in the SandA4Laughing MatterA5EsperanzaA6Woman Speak to Men; Men Speak to WomanB1A Spit in the OceanB2NavajoB3BalanceB4Saving GraceB5SpeechlessB6Conversations With White ArcB7Domaine de PlanoussetB8Kick the Can, Part 21983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1Hard Time Killin' Floor BluesA2The Golden EightiesA3Everyday ObjectsA4The Kirghiz LightA5Special Rider BluesB1One of Nature's MistakesB2Roy RogersB3The ConfessionB4Objects EverydayB5Wool and WaterB6The Trace1983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks
A1Some Clouds Don'tA2Cap the KnifeA3EvolutionA4Too Much, Too LittleA5The WelcomeA6Same Old MeA7Some Clouds DoB1Instant PartyB2Walking SongB3Flying in the Face of FactsB4Heart BaresB5Absent FriendsB6The Great HealerWith Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?
1987 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:10:57
1The Trace2:532Three Languages9:283Love in Hell5:344Twisted Memories Give Way to the Angry Pheasant3:475One of Nature's Mistakes2:086Roy Rogers5:047It Sings5:408Drowsy Maggie4:349The Kirghiz Light4:5610The Golden Eighties5:4711Objects Everyday3:0612The Changing of Names5:4413It Moves...2:0214One Eyed Theater4:3515Dog Puppet Born Out of a Sock2:0716Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues3:32The Technology of Tears (and Other Music for Dance and Theatre)
1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 59:37
1Sadness, Its Bones Bleached Behind Us13:052You Are What You Eat18:413The Palace of Laughter, the Technology of Tears10:084Jigsaw14:395Jigsaw Coda3:041991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 46:14
1Petite entrée: Au restaurant, on se regarde!3:312Tableau 1: Riche et mystérieux!5:563Tableau 2: Mauvaise gauche!2:244Tableau 3: Deux emballés!2:525Tableau 4: Tous cuits!4:026Fin tragique: Flottent les petits morceaux!2:427Enchaînement alchimique: Nos fantômes naissent!3:428Tableau 5: La mer est notre mère!4:089Tableau 6: Ah, que la vie est dure!4:5910Tableau 7: Allez, on danse!4:0911Tableau 8: Holà! tu rèves! / Fin comique: A quand la suite?7:491991 · studio album
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A20000V LiveBHeaven’s Breath1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 48:55
1Still Asleep (Prelude)2:472The Same River3:143Seven Devils4:124Unquiet Days In Eden6:245Housework (Interlude)2:236Seven Veils2:157Pharmikon5:108Owls At Dusk6:109Red, Black, Gold3:3610Seven Gates3:5411Another Life2:2012None Are Disbarred3:3013Up To Our Elbows3:001992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 55:28
1Fingers3:062Lungs4:143Guerre 16:054Heart2:285Mirror / Dark as a Match4:476Guerre 21:517Habits3:238Crescent City / Agnus Dei4:319Tais-toi1:5010Fermer3:0711Sanctus3:4512Tenir2:5613Rends-moi mon argent2:5714Lux aeterna4:2815Libera me3:0816Sauve moi2:521994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 52:47
1Lelekovice (For Iva Bittová)24:122The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not28:351994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 52:31
1Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 11:202Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 24:023Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 30:534Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 43:185Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 51:566Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 64:147Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 73:338Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 81:089Lelekovice (for Iva Bittová) String Quartet / 93:1410The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / D3:4111The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / B2:4112The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / C2:2013The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / G2:0214The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / H3:0515The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / F2:3616The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / A6:4817The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not - Electric Guitar Quartet / E5:401995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:08:38
1Khartum9:192Hippopotamus3:073Chipmunk4:034Boggy2:245Chit-Chat10:146Col Legno1:437Introduction0:148Sobek7:009Saki Ni Dozo3:5510Tricephale7:5611Sukanaku6:2012Give The Cat A Fish2:1913Nil8:5414Poppy Cock1:101995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 46:44
1Lobster Claw Symphonette #13:192Lobster Claw Symphonette #23:133Lobster Claw Symphonette #31:544Minotaur3:495The Rise and Fall of...10:426Solo Acoustic Guitar5:017Second Nature18:461996 · studio album
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1Double Headed Jet Pimiento2:132Where We Exist27:163Love Isn’t Blind2:094Vicious Circle7:285Oriental Psycho Garden2:296Neuro Politics18:341997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 55:31
1Part I (Homage to John Cage)19:402Part II (Homage to Morton Feldman)22:353Part III (Homage to Earle Brown)13:16En Public Aux Laboratoires D'Aubervilliers Improvisations
1997 · studio album
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1Improvisations1:02:251998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 49:10
1Pacifica, Part One46:232Pacifica, Part Two2:471999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 36 tracks · 2:38:50
Disc 11It Moves...2:072The Changing of Names5:483It Sings5:434Believing What We Read3:025... But Does It Swing?3:346Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues3:317The Golden Eighties5:478Everyday Objects2:529The Kirghiz Light4:5510Special Rider Blues4:3111Drowsy Maggie4:0612An HK Guitar Solo3:3213Strandloper1:1714Major Nichols3:5315The Live Trace4:4016See Over9:0717Fourth Rail5:1718Squirrely5:42Disc 21Twisted Memories Give Way to the Angry Present3:572Black Glass5:303Third Rail3:314Three Languages9:315One of Nature's Mistakes2:076Roy Rogers5:037The Confession3:588Objects Everyday2:509Wool and Water4:1210The Trace2:5311Life in Hell5:3712The Incarceration5:3913An FF Bass Solo2:3814John S. French3:3215Fifteen Blues4:3416Dog Puppet Born Out of a Sock2:1117Reading Glasses2:0618A Portrait of the Artists as Two Old Men9:372000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 50:02
1Act 1, Scene I2:452Act 1, Scene II2:133Act 1, Scene III3:554Act 2, Scene I1:185Act 2, Scene II2:596Act 2, Scene III3:557Act 2, Scene IV2:568Act 2, Scene VI3:369Act 3, Scene I3:0310Act 4, Scene I2:3111Act 5, Scene I3:0012Act 5, Scene II3:1813Act 5, Scene III2:5614Act 5, Scene IV3:4115Exeunt1:2316Encore.6:332000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 41:36
1Pocket1:312Hello, I Must Be Going6:263downtown, top corner4:544points follow4:075We Build5:346Bottle5:137describe it either4:248the soul hovers8:429Code0:452000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:12
1Inadvertent Introduction0:542First Riddle2:313Traffic II4:264Third Riddle2:135Lourdement Gai1:076Traffic III / Traffic I2:187Freeway / Shadow of a Tree on Sand5:298Fragile Finale9:559Introduction: Limbo1:5510Adage A / At Your Earliest Hesitation4:4511Gyrate / Adage B3:2512Not If I See You First1:1813Any Other World1:2814A Good Top Tongue0:1615Nose at Nose0:5716Will Cast Some Light On1:3317Adage D / Neither Fire Nor Place0:4618Monkey Lens Diphtong String3:3319Howdywhoola0:1820No Convenient Time3:3121One Never Knows Do One? / Adage Code / Long Fade11:342001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 55:57
1There Will BE Great Stones, We Must Lift Them48:202Will Remain Always7:372001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 54:34
1White9:322Open Ocean5:163Chains2:014The Bow Moon4:005Minimalism5:106Not With Love But With Fear6:077Theatre10:138Gaifu Kaisei2:549Road Movie2:1510This Earth is a Flower3:5311Blue3:132002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 49:00
1Digital Wildlife12:122Image in and Atom9:553The Prisoner's Dilemma14:304Touch I Risk7:255Close To Home4:58Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures 1987-2001
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 41:38
1Trains and Boats and Planes5:072Stones2:023Fingerprints3:504Life of a Detective3:135The Ballad of Melody Nelson2:016Trocosi4:367Reduce Me5:498Levity2:369True Love2:5710I Want It to Be Over3:0111Spot4:3812In the Winter of '641:482002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 48:21
1Freedom Is Your Friends / Some Assembly Required3:422Advertising0:173Song and Dance4:054Void Where Prohibited / The Up and Up4:505Boyan's Problem3:266Ikue's Song1:007T Square Park Lark - For Frank Zappa9:158Significant Restrictions Apply1:179Hey René0:1710Chained to the Skyway5:5111Batteries Not Included / Nostalgia3:1612Water Under the Bridge - For Jimmy Giuffre5:0513Freedom Is Your Friends II6:002002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 52:32
1Sleeping in a Dream5:452Lunatic Fringe8:133Candles Ahead1:304Reversed Bridges8:085Sirènes1:296Curé's Omelette6:107Operatic Tchaess1:468Purple Line7:519Curious Grass1:4510Nice Giant3:5711Two Stars (Instead of One)5:58Dalaba, Frith, Glick Rieman, Kihlstedt
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 55:26
1How Light, a Potato Chip2:172The Distance That Separates Dreams2:453Spicule Maneuver4:084Worm Anvils13:005Shallow Weather11:586Lucy Has a New Pet Kitty5:167Ant Farm Morning16:022003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 48:18
1From Ice to Steam3:432Portrait of a Boy3:313Sideshow2:224The Glass of Absinthe4:295Smell My Halo2:426The Palace at 4 AM6:327Hey Sonny4:318La Valise5:399Goodbye Pop3:3410Tempted to Smile5:0911Housecleaning at the Beginning of the New Year6:062003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 58:23
1Soshin7:332Morning Froth9:573Indicateur d'assiette18:404Afternoon Tea7:505Wolf's Wood9:326Aquathèque4:51Accidental: Music for Dance, Volume 3
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 39:25
1The Tangled Bank3:402Hit and Run2:573Gatto Nero1:334Old Geometry2:245Their Blood Is Black and Yellow4:336In a Heartbeat1:157Fooled Again5:048Accidental3:279Absinthe Memories (For Phil Minton)3:0010Incoming6:2011Almighty Home at Last5:122004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 24:19
1The Dub4:272Fellini4:373Grover Rides a Happy Honker3:4643 Elephants and a Cow7:305When to Rewind3:592004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 47:30
1Sideshow 12:082Gambling, Gods And LSD14:203Sideshow 22:274Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen7:535Sideshow 32:196Returning Home: Wood And Water8:347Returning Home: The Wind4:128Returning Home: Straw Dance3:189Sideshow 42:19Eleventh Hour (Arditti Quartet / Uwe Dierksen / William Winant)
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:40:08
Disc 11Lelekovice: I1:482Lelekovice: II4:423Lelekovice: III0:494Lelekovice: IV3:185Lelekovice: V2:076Lelekovice: VI4:457Lelekovice: VII5:448Lelekovice: VIII1:049Lelekovice: IX4:0210Tense Serenity: I11:2311Tense Serenity: II5:0012Tense Serenity: III4:5813Tense Serenity: IV3:5814Tense Serenity: V2:13Disc 21Allegory: I3:512Allegory: II7:003Allegory: III4:034Stick Figures17:285Fell11:55Allies: Music for Dance, Volume 2
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 40:40
1Rifka9:372Small Mercy 14:273Nenad7:504A Rock and a Hard Place6:175Davor and Dzeneta6:286Small Mercy 26:012006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 43:24
1Time Comes Presto3:142A Beautiful Thing to Forget / Får ej Tåckas4:493Look at Sky Go3:364Dog-Eared2:045I Am Buffalo Bill Today4:116Initially This2:387Postcard From the Back3:558I Am Map3:309Abstract Expressionism5:1610Dream as a Means3:1511Aller Retour4:1212Time Goes Largo2:442006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:17:45
Disc 11Opening4:252Heart Beat Faster4:203Torn0:544Short Story3:175See You On The Beach1:116Loose Slots3:237Six Of One1:168Cricket4:089Hover2:1010Waking The Day3:0711Blue State3:3912Closing6:03Disc 21Fred Frith Live Solo Performance Boulder, Colorado February 20, 200426:312Janet Feder Live Solo Performance Denver, Colorado May 11, 2006 (Opening/I Hear Voices/Heart Beat Faster)13:212006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 51:13
1Ukon6:182Kira5:373Kio2:334Tan3:055Shi--o1:336Beni3:527Kasumi2:158Sumi1:129Hanabira3:4810The Happy End Problem21:002007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 50:29
1One19:482Two18:183Three12:232007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 52:10
1Passing Fields6:252Dawn and the Flat Irons8:453Biocarbon Man8:514Deep North5:565Bicarbonate of Soda, Man4:336Speed Trap2:547Distant Cities5:318QEW3:059Reasons for Moving6:102007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 52:13
1Telltale Streamers of Dust10:242Nothing but Make Me9:193Swing Like Riddle9:184Thick Air8:055Sings the Foundation11:236The Way You Do the Things3:442008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:00:21
1Sadness, Its Bones Bleached Behind Us13:182You Are What You Eat18:463The Palace of Laughter, the Technology of Tears10:224Jigsaw14:475Jigsaw Coda3:082008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 46:31
1Part 1: Landscape With Or Without Edges7:552Part 2: Door Won't Open, Door Won't Close3:023Part 3: Nervous When I Turned6:484Part 4: Family Ties6:035Part 5: Science To Someone Living4:186Part 6: Glass And Mirror Cut To Size6:397Part 7: Everywhere Hastily We Followed2:598Part 8: Two Blinkings Of An Eyelid1:279Part 9: Near Future Faith7:202008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:05:16
1Because Your Mama Wants Your Home2:382Weather Gauge4:233Reconstructed4:074Life On Venus4:295Mondays2:046Life-Enhancing Interior4:007First Light4:458Scratch Opera4:169The Wrong Door5:0410Circuit Breakers And Fuses5:0411The Slightest Shiver2:3212Sheep's Head, 19635:3913Life By Another Name3:3814Dog Watch6:1515Hopscotch Horizon3:1916King Dawn3:032008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:04:14
1Seven Circles 13:002Save As16:113Seven Circles 25:084Bridge Is Bridge7:175Seven Circles 31:376Seven Circles 43:457Back to Life8:578Seven Circles 51:359Seven Circles 64:4010Elegy for Elias9:2611Seven Circles 72:382008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:09:15
1Elsewhere27:282All Aboard41:472009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:03:09
1The Big Picture Part 12:042The Big Picture Part 22:493The Big Picture Part 32:404The Big Picture Part 42:065The Big Picture Part 52:256The Big Picture Part 61:397Freedom in Fragments: Introduction: The Power of Prayer1:508Freedom in Fragments: Some Assembly Required1:459Freedom in Fragments: Hopscotch (For John Zorn)4:5210Freedom in Fragments: Confess0:1511Freedom in Fragments: Song and Dance4:2012Freedom in Fragments: Void Where Prohibited2:3113Freedom in Fragments: Rosali’s Song6:1014Freedom in Fragments: Red Rag3:5815Freedom in Fragments: Significant Restrictions Apply1:5016Freedom in Fragments: Boyan’s Problem4:0717Freedom in Fragments: Kick It3:4818Freedom in Fragments: Nostalgia2:0119Freedom in Fragments: Batteries Not Included1:4420Freedom in Fragments: T. Square Park Lark (For Frank Zappa)8:3221Freedom in Fragments: The Power of Prayer: Coda1:432009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 43:42
1Invitation/Invocation6:412Affront National3:273Dead Sea4:074Waiting for God1:555Danses avec les rats3:326Nueve1:407Now We Know2:168Gaga-kun1:539Don't Say1:1610Cuts Up1:1811Le Sursis4:0412Ses habits de dimanche4:4813Finger on the Pulse2:2614La derniére valse (pour mie)4:192010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 35:31
A[Beehive]18:27B1Φ2:34B2ħ6:26B3⊙8:042011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 56:50
1Premier Mouvement5:282Deuxième Mouvement13:153Troisième Mouvement4:564Quatrième Mouvement5:145Cinquième Mouvement14:186Sixième Mouvement13:392011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 1:07:50
1Clearing Customs1:07:50On Cold Mountain: Songs on Poems of Gary Snyder
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:01:33
1Cold Mountain Songs: Like a Passing River4:362Cold Mountain Songs: Wrecked Town5:153For Nothing: I. —1:554For Nothing: II. —4:225For Nothing: III. —4:366This Bubble of a Heart12:097For All: I. Milton by Firelight4:268For All: II. Cold Mountain Songs4:159For All: III. For the West3:3410For All: IV. Spel Against Demons6:1911For All: V. As for Poets5:3812For All: VI. For All4:282014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:06:13
1L'Eau Et Le Vent3:052Cut And Run16:453Allure Au Plus Près15:384Going By The Board3:235Back And Fill2:256Boxing The Compass2:047Absolute Bearing8:138Point D'Amure1:589The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea12:422014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 55:01
1That Unforgettable Line2:342Delirium Perhaps3:463Dance First, Think Later3:304Faults of His Feet6:295Colour of an Eye Half Seen13:316Turning Away in Time3:027The Welts, the Squeaks, the Belts, the Shrieks3:058Butterflies of Vertigo4:389Be Again, Be Again5:3010Accommodating the Mess8:562014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 59:58
1Where the Cities Gleam in Darkness20:282Big Flowers2:053Breaking and Entering1:284The Circus Is a Song of Praise4:535Little by Little0:456A Single Street Stretched Tight by the Waters1:367Climbing the Ladder3:258Dependence over the Abyss5:059Walking on Wire1:5710Moments Full of Many Lives18:162015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 57:04
1Anchor Point3:062Run Don’t Hide8:283Reasonably Available Control Measures10:534The Mountain Is as Quiet as the Eternal Past8:195Non-Precision Approach Procedure1:466Thief Breaks Into an Empty House9:227The Same Dirt4:408Hallucinating Angels10:302015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 38:48
1Retorisk Fråga6:212The Fountain and the Mirror8:543Elegy for an Angel (Fantasia / Memorativa / Imaginativa)4:464Mathesis7:305Indiscrezione2:576Conversazione (We Fall)6:197Audience / Applause2:012015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 58:36
1It Rolls15:022Armen Seelen5:033Weh a Ways Away3:044Wildstrubel1:395Gong3:366Sparsam1:347Gefährten an der Kreuzung9:108Die Sprache der Dinge3:569Spieglein an der Wand4:0210Trippen ohne flippen9:4611Akelei (Im Garten der Grosseltern)1:442015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 35:39
1Shelter for Them All1:372A Deeper Understanding of Conflict4:223The Hounds of Democracy1:194The Turning of an Hourglass2:025Birth of a Rebel2:466I Am in Control0:237Your Beautiful Corpse1:258The Excellent Hyena2:199Nuns Don’t Run Roadblocks0:3710The Old Man Moves a Mountain1:1711The Wolf Demon (Part 1)1:0612Known Knowns and Unknowns0:3513Meditation Upon Propaganda3:1314Liberty1:5615Weakness Is Provocative0:3316Saracene and Antonio1:0317The Relentless Landscape1:2018The Gaze That Sings1:3319Stopping Short of Torture1:4020The Wolf Demon (Part 2)0:5821Rashomon3:352015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 38:46
1Prologue2:562Run Don't Walk1:173One Road, Many Destinations4:044Shimmer, Simmer3:315Up Ahead2:506Desert Sundown3:397Ran Didn't Hide2:018Hills Have Eyes2:019Moving on Sideways1:4510Moving on Up3:0911Act of Faith3:5812Home Stretch3:0313Jumped In1:4914Epilogue2:432016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 45:50
1Barn Dance3:162Scribble2:053Luminiscense9:034Everybody's Somebody's Nobody2:255Bounce4:356Morning and the Shadow7:067Down Time3:458Rising Time3:239Scratch1:3610Ants2:5311Standard Candles5:43A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 25:59
1Prelude1:182Who Will Release Me?3:423Entr’acte 10:274Could Have Been1:565It’s All in Place1:386Entr’acte 20:457How Is a Face to Replace0:508We Who Wait2:169A Little Older1:1410Over Then (And Now)2:3111Should See Me Out1:0612Every Minute Counts2:0913Song of the Crow4:1914Almost Yes Unless1:482018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 52:38
1With Us or Without Us26:202Your Ever Loving Arms26:182019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:16:11
1The Shreeve3:022Bound6:033Emit Time7:204Court Music16:105This Reminds Me6:526Long Story Short4:147Curling20:018Quads7:279A Special Hell For Shreeves5:022019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 46:04
1Stillness the Dancing41:322Falls the Shadow4:322020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 57:25
1Just Call Her Nagra2:512At Tim's House0:583Complex4:164Traffic Jam1:505Jonas1:256Bach and Echo2:107Samurai Pachinko Concert4:288Le Lion de Leipzig0:579And If I Had a Heart7:3610Clapping Rain2:5011Big Byt2:1512Le Train Fantôme2:1313Your Name Please1:3314Thank You Tom3:1815Go to the End3:3516Lost in a Subway Station3:5617Pacific1:1018Haco's Cat1:5119I'm Not Diderot4:5620Too Loud for Dogs3:17Free Postmodernism (BBQ with Fred Frith USA 1982)
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:21:38
1BBQ I24:182BBQ II8:223BBQ III9:314BBQ IV8:155BBQ & F.F. V13:346BBQ & F.F. VI17:382020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 43:28
1Loud and Clear8:212¡Espere!3:583Stay Tuned12:244Ab2:115Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down3:406Ruko5:147Dem7:40Debates For Ganden / Inimitable
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks
1Path2Moment3Protection4Practice5Mind6Truth7Isn't That What the World Is?A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 42:32
1Bodaishin1:072The Biggest Lie0:573Stirred by Wind and Waves1:234Nothing to It5:115Fushiryō1:426The Biggest Idiots2:127Nothing at All3:168Shōdōka3:039Good for What?2:3910The Same Moon Sometimes Seems to Smile2:1311Things as They Are1:5612Hishiryō3:5113A Thief Breaks Into an Empty House2:1714Now Here5:1715Samadhi5:282023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 46:24
1Laying Demons to Rest (excerpt)4:252Laying Demons to Rest41:59Something About This Landscape for Ensemble
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 42:24
1Something About This Landscape for Ensemble22:582Dirty and Light9:363Dark Under Stars9:502024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:15:31
1Hello Music (1974)1:312Glass c/w Steel (1974)5:363Ghosts (1974)3:114Out of Their Heads (on Locoweed) (1974)8:315Not Forgotten (1974)1:556Hollow Music (1974)2:447Heat c/w Moment (1974)1:428No Birds (1974)12:429Dawns (2024)3:3010Outer Order (2024)4:2811Tempus Fugit (2024)2:4112Quicksilver (for Simone) (2024)2:0413Unterwegs (for Roman) (2024)3:5214Phalaropes (2024)1:3315Jack's Neap Tide (2024)2:0816Schlechte Gewissen (2024)2:2417Move Indigo (2024)3:5418To Do (2024)1:3919The Map of Dreams (2024)3:2820Locomoting (2024)4:0721Dusks (2024)1:512025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 39:05
1Things Considered8:402See Through Blind15:263Looking Up4:264O tempo e sua secura10:332026 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 51:41
1Fault16:372Tephra16:563Fissure9:514Flow8:17
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Live in Japan (The Guitars on the Table Approach Vol. 2)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 32:51A1Fukuoka II9:17 A2Maebashi I8:22 B1Fukuoka III11:22 B2Tokyo I3:50 | Live | 1982 | |
| 1982 | Voice of AmericaSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 38:201Voice of America, Part 117:01 2Voice of America, Part 221:19 | Live | 1982 | |
| 1982 | Live in Japan (The Guitars on the Table Approach Vol.1)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 35:43AOsaka I21:42 B1Osaka II2:16 B2Osaka III2:15 B3Fukuoka I9:30 | Live | 1982 | |
| 1983 | French GigsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracksAReims B1Limoges 1 B2Poitiers B3Limoges 2 | Compilation,Live | 1983 | |
| 1989 | The Top of His HeadSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 53:571Title Theme1:53 2Driving to the Train2:45 3Wheels Within2:30 4Hold on Hold2:29 5Lucy Leaves a Note2:29 6Gus Escapes2:26 7Gravity's a Rule2:19 8Channel Change3:25 9Orbit1:30 10Fall to Call3:54 11Underwater Dream2:32 12This Old Earth3:25 13Donuts2:57 14The Long Drive4:52 15Lucy2:08 16The Premonition1:54 17Questions and Answers2:49 18The Performance3:02 19The Way You Look Tonight-Title Theme (Conclusion)4:38 | Soundtrack | 1989 | |
| 1990 | Step Across the BorderSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 26 tracks · 1:14:301Sparrow Song1:30 2Voice of America, Part 3 / Legs4:26 3Selluloid Restaurant / The Old Man Puts Out the Fire3:12 4After Dinner1:49 5Houston Street2:56 6Drum Factory2:04 7Regardless of Rain3:07 8Candy Machine3:02 9Romanisches Café6:22 10The Border3:31 11Nirvana Again1:55 12Scottish Roppongi1:49 13Norrgarden Nyvla2:58 14Birds2:21 15The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not, Part 31:50 16Williamsburg Bridge1:55 17Same Old Me / Williamsburg Bridge (reprise)4:14 18The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not, Part 52:28 19Lost and Found3:20 20Nine by Nine5:54 21Evolution3:22 22Union Square1:43 23Morning Song2:03 24Voice of America, Part 42:05 25Too Much Too Little2:09 26Too Late2:25 | Soundtrack | 1990 | |
| 1990 | Live ImprovisationsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 52:501Club Integral, London, 1990-5-1232:44 2Purcell Room I, London, 1990-5-132:06 3Purcell Room II, London, 1990-5-131:18 4Purcell Room III, London, 1990-5-133:25 5The George IV, Sheffield, 1990-5-108:38 6The Termite Club, Leeds Bridge End, 1990-5-114:39 | Live | 1990 | |
| 1992 | Nous autresSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 52:321Cage de verre3:38 2The Same Wide Wall3:22 3Vinegar Minutes1:44 4Ketsui5:05 5Plaisirs instantés2:54 6Fun in America2:15 7Iceberg6:06 8Solo en ré mineur1:33 9De mémoire1:33 10Two Squares and Three Circles6:32 11Assuming They're Human2:51 12Cage de fer2:09 13J'aime la musique5:00 14Une poignée de clous1:51 15Domaine Revisited3:44 16Riaville Bump2:15 | Live | 1992 | |
| 1994 | Live In Trondheim - Berlin - Limoges Vol. 2Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 5 tracks · 1:06:521Artcore24:37 2Webcore14:50 3You Might Hear Some Traffic's Noise14:04 4Nothing3:00 5Meltdown10:21 | Compilation,Live | 1994 | |
| 1995 | Middle of the MomentSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 1:00:421Le jour se lève6:26 2Moving3:55 3Digging for Water2:34 4Portrait I / Tam-Tam in Timia3:29 5Le Cirque7:11 6Robert Lax Is0:59 7Gnawa Express Tanger3:01 8Bell Song2:37 9Portrait II1:43 10Ghost Stories6:51 11Portes ouvertes3:41 12Le Cirque - Oh! / Ghost Dance / Portrait III10:45 13Le jour s'arrache2:57 14Middle of the Moment4:33 | Soundtrack | 1995 | |
| 1996 | RéelSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 30:04A1Réseaux3:43 A2Reichen2:02 A3Rebonds5:51 A4Relativ1:43 A5Réel1:20 B1Recnik7:49 B2Remanent5:18 B3Résistance2:18 | Live | 1996 | |
| 1997 | Eye to EarSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 9 tracks · 55:461Le Rencontre: Title Theme4:12 2Backroom I3:22 3Thea und Nat12:22 4Backroom II5:31 5Picture of Light9:47 6Ostkreuz6:01 7Before Sunrise - In the Train2:47 8Backroom III8:08 9Le Rencontre (reprise)3:36 | Compilation,Soundtrack | 18 March 1997 | |
| 1999 | Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986-96)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:58:38Disc 1 1Goongerah / Tokyo / Firewood13:20 2Screen / Dry Stone I / Dry Stone II11:17 3Bricks for Six-Vlissingen8:43 4Skylight3:27 5Drystone II4:16 6Bricks for Six1:49 7Dry Stone I / Dry Stone II4:11 8Skylight / High Tension1:38 9Roof1:29 10Screen / High Tension / Zürich5:59 11Athens3:40 12Firewood1:49 Disc 21I. Green; II. Drystone II; III. Improvisation; IV. Roof; V. Improvisation; VI. Reykjavik; VII. Vlissingen; VIII. Improvisation; IX. Skylight V33:39 2I. Improvisation; II. Tokyo6:35 3Screen5:49 4Jahresringe4:34 5Firewood6:23 | Live | 1999 | |
| 2000 | Ars Longa Dens BrevisSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 1:19:301[untitled]35:54 2[untitled]27:24 3[untitled]8:25 4[untitled]7:47 | Live | 2000 | |
| 2001 | Keep the Dog: That House We Lived InSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:36:24Disc 1 1Revelation (Derome) / Bones (Frith/Laswell/Maher)4:59 2Rock and a Hard Place5:46 3Hola, on Danse! (Frith/Richard)2:20 4Foot in Hole7:39 5Fanfare / Lizard's Tail4:31 6Suspended2:03 7Quick Sign5:16 8Propaganda Suite8:38 9Walking Song5:31 10Some Clouds Do2:59 Disc 21The Same Eys/Fives5:37 2Votegs / Slow Bones7:13 3That Home We Lived In / Candy Machine3:24 4The Trace5:18 5True Love4:01 6Instant Party3:07 7Small Mercy3:35 8Norrgarden Nyvla3:13 9Year of the Monkey / Dark as a Match6:21 10Domaine dDe Langendreer4:53 | Live | 2001 | |
| 2003 | Rivers and Tides { working with timeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 40:561Part I10:10 2Part II3:13 3Part III2:22 4Part IV1:25 5Part V4:40 6Part VI4:15 7Part VII11:31 8Part VIII3:20 | Soundtrack | 16 June 2003 | |
| 2004 | 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 5Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 54:191Off Topic7:30 2Alecto3:57 3Sowers of Discord3:55 4Four Corners8:14 5Level Six Jumping4:34 6Cruel Abstraction6:26 7Eumenides Outside the Window6:55 8Nine-part Invention4:37 9Cord Trouble and Tuning1:39 10Astrologers and Magicians6:32 | Live | 29 June 2004 | |
| 2006 | ImpurSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 54:571Impur54:57 | Live | 2006 | |
| 2007 | The Stone: Issue TwoSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 50:441Live At The Stone50:44 | Live | March 2007 | |
| 2009 | Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:16:381Nowhere to Run5:17 2Nowhere Near3:19 3Nowhere to Be Seen3:10 4Nowhere Else1:43 5Nowhere Can Compare2:21 6Getting Nowhere2:27 7Going Nowhere2:25 8Nowhere to Hide3:08 9Sideshow: Clearing the Throat3:34 10Sideshow: Show Time7:24 11Sideshow: On or in the Wing3:13 12Sideshow: Act Two3:31 13Sideshow: Angels With Thirty Faces5:17 14Sideshow: In Which All May Have Been Resolved5:27 15Sideshow: Ghost of BB1:48 16Sideshow: Ms. Mac Drinks and Goes Home1:19 17Thin Air: Ladders6:52 18Thin Air: Screened1:35 19Thin Air: Plastic3:01 20Thin Air: Running3:51 21Thin Air: Falling3:27 22Thin Air: Fast Feet2:29 | Soundtrack | September 2009 | |
| 2010 | Eye To Ear IIISearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 55:411love parade3:29 2the wedding2:14 3crossing the bosporus4:22 4inside outside3:24 5the wedding (catwalk remix)2:55 6the prisoners confined2:49 7the prisoners released2:07 8escape of our heroes2:08 9once upon a time in anatola (for ennio morricone)4:17 10redemption (for edward artemiev)4:51 11drei gegen troja4:16 12water music 14:37 13water music 24:22 14water music 33:19 15water music 41:52 16water music 54:39 | Soundtrack | 2010 | |
| 2015 | Hello, I Must Be GoingSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 59:471Hello, I Must Be Going17:36 2Red Thread19:02 3Particulars6:08 4Je me souviens17:01 | Live | 26 May 2015 | |
| 2016 | Live In EuropeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 45:501Kaonashi8:46 2Tempelhof8:42 3Karen Revisited6:53 4Chichiro's World6:28 5Yogya Trip7:06 6Berlin Blues7:55 | Live | 22 January 2016 | |
| 2017 | Storytelling (live at Theater Gütersloh)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 1:01:541Storytelling (For Eduardo Galeano) - Chapter 115:31 2Storytelling (For Eduardo Galeano) - Chapter 212:22 3Storytelling (For Eduardo Galeano) - Chapter 35:36 4La Pasión de Soñar17:15 5Backsliding4:51 6Interview With Fred Frith6:19 | Live | 18 August 2017 | |
| 2019 | Fred Frith Live at the Stone - All Is Always NowSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 3:20:42Disc 1 1Another Ship Moves In5:16 2Identity Crisis11:42 3A Complicated Path7:39 4Strife and Soil9:30 5Limited Strike6:11 6Silver Lining3:07 7Slipping16:33 8World of Grief and Doubt6:55 Disc 21Concussion Suit6:37 2From the Backctretch6:32 3Shrug at Truth15:26 4Reasons to Dream8:15 5What Gets Left Behind8:11 6Like Animals10:53 7A Measure of Solace10:42 Disc 31Deter and Degrade8:56 2Of Finest Silver3:29 3Veils6:27 4Held Again7:04 5Flare19:26 6Hero of the Space Age7:35 7Devoted to a Failed Approach6:07 8Evidence8:09 | Live | March 2019 | |
| 2021 | Rocking the Boat: Vol. 1 of the Fred Records Story, 2001-2020Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 1 March 2021 | |
| 2021 | Crossing Borders: Vol. 2 of The Fred Records Story, 2001-2020Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 1 March 2021 | |
| 2021 | Stepping Out: Vol. 3 of the Fred Records Story, 2001-2020Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 1 March 2021 | |
| 2023 | Atmospheres: Music for Three FilmsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 1:23:131Zen for Nothing 112:25 2Zen for Nothing 213:01 3Leaning Into the Wind 114:13 4Leaning Into the Wind 214:36 5I'll Be Your Mirror 115:49 6I'll Be Your Mirror 213:09 | Soundtrack | 11 July 2023 | |
| 2023 | Four compositions for Guitar QuartetSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 43:451Álftanes7:33 2Motormouth4:13 3The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not B2:38 4The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not C2:20 5The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not F2:34 6The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not E5:28 7The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not A6:40 8The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not G2:01 9The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not H3:02 10The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not D3:43 11Faír3:33 | Compilation | 22 July 2023 | |
| 2023 | Nineteen spontaneous compositions for guitar solo (and one for guitar duo)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 52:511Dependable Phantoms (for Hans)4:40 2Sorrow Music1:58 3Access4:32 4Stay That Way2:10 5Esse2:16 6Insomnia1:14 7Throw the Bolt2:46 8Don't know where, don't know when1:25 9Light Erases the Thought6:05 10Fragment Koncertu 10:47 11New Shoes (for A.R.)3:15 12Out of the Ice1:11 13Romanisches Cafe2:32 14Fragment Koncertu 22:20 15Wilder Tongues2:02 16Landscape with Mercy2:59 17Stitches in Time1:00 18Oh wie schön ist Panama5:00 19Daria's Regard2:10 20Tenebris2:29 | Compilation | 17 August 2023 | |
| 2024 | A Miscellany of MishapsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 9 tracks · 1:01:541Haiku Urbain #101:01 2Second Nature18:49 3The as Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What Is Not, Section A5:25 4Woulda Coulda Shoulda5:24 5Snakes and Ladders15:29 6Yui's Workout3:49 7Light at the End of the Tunnel6:11 8The Disinformation Polka4:07 9Brass Bolognese1:39 | Compilation | 7 August 2024 | |
| 2025 | Atmospheres II (music for three more films)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 9 tracks · 53:361Greina Suite 14:59 2Greina Suite 24:35 3Greina Suite 34:50 4L'Ancre Suite 15:06 5L'Ancre Suite 27:10 6L'Ancre Suite 38:32 7Ripples of Physis Suite 12:29 8Ripples of Physis Suite 23:58 9Ripples of Physis Suite 311:57 | Soundtrack | 11 April 2025 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Fred Frith head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 111 | 98.3th |
| Studio albums | 78 | 99.6th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 81 | 99.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 52 | 92.5th |
| Genres | 10 | 96.5th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Echo Klassik – Classical Music without Borders | won |
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material(band) | — | present | |
| The Golden Palominos(band) | — | present | |
| Massacre(band) | — | present | |
| Mother Gong(band) | — | present | |
| Duck and Cover(band) | — | present | |
| Death Ambient(band) | — | present | |
| Fred Frith Guitar Quartet(band) | — | present | |
| Naked City(band) | — | present | |
| Skeleton Crew(band) | — | present | |
| Henry Cow(band) | — | present | |
| French Frith Kaiser Thompson(band) | — | present | eponymous |
| Tone Dogs(band) | — | present | |
| Fred Frith Trio(band) | — | present | lead vocals |
| Fred Frith Trio(band) | — | present | electric guitar |
| Two Against One(band) | — | present | |
| Bladerunner(band) | — | present | |
| Mad World Music(band) | — | present | guitar |
| Rova Channeling Coltrane(band) | — | present | electric bass guitar |
| Henry Cow(band) | — | present | |
| Art Bears(band) | 1978 | 1981 |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FredFrith_August2006.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4801bad4-1b42-4c9e-84b1-bf61067ab67cdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4801bad4-1b42-4c9e-84b1-bf61067ab67ccore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460325genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460325seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Frithbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Frith
Why this artist is in the database
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Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Antonio Jose Silva (fixwhatusee) · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q460325 · MusicBrainz: 4801bad4-1b42-4c9e-84b1-bf61067ab67c
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