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Cat: WE 5. Rel: 25 Mar 24
Post Rock/Experimental

Side 1 - Track 1. Hello Music (LP1: Guitar Solos (1974))Side 1 - Track 2. Glass C/W SteelSide 1 - Track 3. GhostsSide 1 - Track 4. Out Of Their Heads (On Locoweed)Side 2 - Track 1. Not ForgottenSide 2 - Track 2. Hollow MusicSide 2 - Track 3. Heat C/W MomentSide 2 - Track 4. No BirdsSide 3 - Track 1. Dawns (LP2: Fifty (2024))Side 3 - Track 2. Outer OrderSide 3 - Track 3. Tempus FugitSide 3 - Track 4. Quicksilver (For Simone)Side 3 - Track 5. Unterwegs (For Roman)Side 3 - Track 6. PhalaropesSide 4 - Track 1. Jack’s Neap TideSide 4 - Track 2. Schlechte GewissenSide 4 - Track 3. Move IndigoSide 4 - Track 4. To DoSide 4 - Track 5. The Map Of DreamsSide 4 - Track 6. LocomotingSide 4 - Track 7. Dusks

Fred Frith is simultaneously a singular musical figure and a collection of musical lifetimes. He's the composer who wrote fragile avant-garde music in the tradition of John Cage and Earle Brown, the innovator who created new concepts of underground rock with his colleagues in the band Henry Cow, and the improviser who developed his very own language on the guitar. The many facets of Frith's musical oeuvre shimmer in vibrant and unique colors, but stand as one rainbow monolith of musical creation, never disintegrating into esoteric eclecticism. Always musically curious and unbiased, he develops his ideas in the moment, demonstrating in real time how his creative process, while free of old hat conventions and tricks, creates an immediate yet unrandom and committed music. At the core is his unique guitar playing, which is on full display across these two records. His debut, Guitar Solos (1974), opened up a space beyond rock and improvised music and now, 50 years later comes Fift (2024), a new solo guitar album that sounds completely different and yet familiar, adding to his monolith of musical creation with another new vibrant color.