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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: RERFRA8
- Format: CD
- UPC: 752725902526
- Street Date: 01/15/16
- PreBook Date: 12/11/15
- Label: Fred Records / ReR Megacorp »
- Genre: Progressive Rock
- Run Time: 45 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2015
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US,CA
- Language: English
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Fred Frith - Field Days
the thinking person's guitar hero-Fred became a key component of the 80's NYC scene, playing w/ John Zorn's Naked City.
- List Price: $16.99
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- In Stock: 9
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14 pieces originally written for dance and other practical situations, here reassigned and reconstructed for choreographer Amanda Miller and the Nederland Dans Theater. These are loop-based, textural, mood pieces, and invocations of spaces and landscapes, with some fine steel guitar playing. Mostly this is Fred multi-instrumenting, with pianist Daan Vanderwalle, percussionist Willie Wynant, saxophonist Lotte Anker, the Arte Sax and Arditti Quartets, Kiku Day (playing occasional shakuhachi), and violinist/nykelharpist Karla Kihlstedt. Hit from the show: Desert Sundown. Field Days is an exploration of the past--in this case Fred's past as a composer of music for dance. Using music originally composed for choreographer Amanda Miller, and working with her and long-time studio collaborator Myles Boisen, Fred created a vast number of loops of all shapes and sizes, and used them as the setting for additional material that was also largely drawn from pre-existing recordings of other works. Fred then added bottleneck guitar to some of the pieces to provide a certain sonic continuity.
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