Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air | ||||
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Studio album by Fred Frith | ||||
Released | September 2009 (2009-09) | |||
Recorded | 2000, 2001, 2007 | |||
Studio | Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland, California | |||
Genre | Experimental music | |||
Length | 76:38 | |||
Label | Fred (UK) | |||
Producer | Fred Frith | |||
Fred Frith chronology | ||||
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Music for Dance series chronology | ||||
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Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, and is the sixth of a series of Music for Dance albums he made.
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air consists of three commissions by three choreographers, each sharing, according to Frith, "a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction".[1] "Nowhere" and "Sideshow" were written by Frith for violinist Carla Kihlstedt, and are performed by Frith, Kihlstedt and others. "Thin Air" features Frith, Hande Erdem (violin) and Theresa Wong (cello).
Reception
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | [2] |
In a review for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the album a "genre-busting disc that catholically references a variety of styles, but ultimately transcends all of its sources." He noted that "even when he's being lyrical... Frith skews his music to the left of center; distinctly personal even when eminently hummable."[2]
Exposé Online's Peter Thelen praised "Thin Air," stating that although it "encompasses what is easily the most sparse and avant-garde music" of the three works, "some of the most interesting and enjoyable sounds on the disc are found herewithin."[3]
Writing for The Squid's Ear, Massimo Ricci commented: "The large majority of this album is enough to let us affirm that, in the age of polluted silence, we still need this man's unsurpassed intuitions like oxygen."[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Fred Frith.[5][6]
- "Nowhere" – commissioned by choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton and performed at The Hague in November 2000
- "Nowhere to Run" – 5:17
- "Nowhere Near" – 3:19
- "Nowhere to be Seen" – 3:10
- "Nowhere Else" – 1:43
- "Nowhere Can Compare" – 2:21
- "Getting Nowhere" – 2:27
- "Going Nowhere" – 2:25
- "Nowhere to Hide" – 3:08
- "Sideshow" – commissioned by choreographer and director Peggy Piacenza and performed as part of the Northwest New Works Festival in 2001
- "Clearing the Throat" – 3:34
- "Show Time" – 7:24
- "On Or in the Wing" – 3:13
- "Act Two" – 3:31
- "Angels With Thirty Faces" – 5:17
- "In Which All May Have Been Resolved" – 5:27
- "Ghost of BB" – 1:48
- "Ms. Mac Drinks and Goes Home" – 1:19
- "Thin Air" – commissioned by choreographer Uchizono Donna Norton and performed in New York in October 2007
- "Ladders" – 6:52
- "Screened" – 1:35
- "Plastic" – 3:01
- "Running" – 3:51
- "Falling" – 3:27
- "Fast Feet" – 2:29
Personnel
- Fred Frith – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, computing, samples, radio, running, bass mbira, low-grade violin, voice
- Carla Kihlstedt – violin ("Nowhere", "Sideshow")
- Fred Guiliano – samples ("Sideshow")
- Gail Brand – trombone ("Sideshow")
- Hande Erdem – violin ("Thin Air")
- Theresa Wong – cello ("Thin Air")
Recording and production
- "Nowhere" recorded September – October 2000 at Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland, California by Myles Boisen
- "Sideshow" recorded January – February 2001 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen
- "Thin Air" recorded May 2007 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen
- Mixed 2008 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen
References
- ^ "Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". ReR USA. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- ^ a b Kelman, John. "Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air". All About Jazz. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Thelen, Peter (1 July 2010). "Reviews: Fred Frith — Nowhere. Sideshow. Thin Air". Exposé Online. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ Ricci, Massimo. "Fred Frith: Nowhere. Sideshow. Thin Air". The Squid's Ear. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". SquidCo. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- ^ "Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". Orkhestra International (in French). Retrieved 30 October 2009.
External links
- Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air on Fred Records.
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- Massacre
- Skeleton Crew
- Keep the Dog
- Cosa Brava
- Fred Frith Trio
- Henry Now
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- Duck and Cover
- French Frith Kaiser Thompson
- Death Ambient
- Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
- Maybe Monday
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- Naked City
- Guitar Solos
- Gravity
- Speechless
- Cheap at Half the Price
- Quartets
- Clearing
- Prints
- Eleventh Hour
- To Sail, to Sail
- Clearing Customs
- Guitar Solos / Fifty
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