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Fred Frith: Propaganda

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In November 2015, “Fred” label released “Propaganda”, album by Fred Frith. It was recorded in April 1987, at “Noise” in New York City, and was produced by Fred Frith.

Personnel:

  • Fred Frith – voice, all instruments
  • Kramer – recording (1987)
  • Myles Boisen – remaster (2015)
  • Tom Kurth – design
  • Nancy Campbell – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Fred Frith.

  1. Shelter for Them All
  2. A Deeper Understanding of Conflict
  3. The Hounds pf Democracy
  4. The Turning of an Hourglass
  5. Birth of a Rebel
  6. I Am in Control
  7. Your Beautiful Corpse
  8. The Excellent Hyena
  9. Nuns Don’t Run Roadblocks
  10. The Old Man Moves a Mountain
  11. The Wolf Demon (Part 1)
  12. Known Knows and Unknown
  13. Meditation Upon Propaganda
  14. Liberty
  15. Weakness is Provocative
  16. Saracene and Antonio
  17. The Relentless Landscape
  18. The Gaze That Sings
  19. Stopping Short of Torture
  20. The Wolf Demon (part 2)
  21. Rashomon

Fred Frith: Field Days

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In November 2015, “Fred” label released “Field Days (The Amanda Loops)”, album by Fred Frith. It was recorded in 2011, at “Guerilla Recordings” in Oakland, California, and was produced by Fred Frith.

Personnel:

  • Fred Frith – all instruments, except the below noted
  • Daan Vandewalle – piano
  • William Winant – percussion
  • Lotte Anker – saxophone
  • Arte Sax Quartet – saxophones
  • Carla Kihlstedt – Nyckelharpa, violin
  • Arditti Quartet – strings
  • Kiku Day – Shakuhachi
  • Myles Boisen – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Fred Frith.

  1. Prologue
  2. Run Don’t Walk
  3. One Road, Many Destinations
  4. Shimmer, Simmer
  5. Up Ahead
  6. Desert Sundown
  7. Ran Didn’t Hide
  8. Hills Have Eyes
  9. Moving on Sideways
  10. Moving on Up
  11. Act of Faith
  12. Home Stretch
  13. Jumped In
  14. Epilogue

Fred Frith & Evelyn Glennie: The Sugar Factory

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On August 28, 2007, “Tzadik” label released “The Sugar Factory”, album Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie. It was recorded July 2003 – October 2006, at “Zucker Fabrik” in Dormagen, Germany, “Guerrilla HiFI” in Oakland, California, and was produced by Fred Frith.

Personnel:

  • Fred Frith – electric guitar, bass guitar, organ, metal objects
  • Evelyn Glennie – voice, drums, gongs, cymbals, metal objects, vibraphone, steel drum, marimba, simtak, toy piano, bell-tree, paper
  • Myles Boisen – recording, mixing
  • Scott Hull – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie, except where noted.

  1. A Route of Wolves, improvisation for 2 players
  2. In the World to Change the World, improvisation for 2 players
  3. A Rag of Colts, improvisation for 2 players
  4. Scuttlebut, improvisation for 2 players
  5. A Cast of Hawks, improvisation for 2 players
  6. Walls are Loosening – Fred Frith, Evelyn Glennie / A Little Prayer – Evelyn Glennie

Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida

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On January 22, 2013, “429 Records” label released “La Costa Perdida”, the 8th Camper Van Beethoven studio album.

Personnel:

  • David Lowery – vocals, guitar
  • Jonathan Segel – guitar, mandolin, organ, violin, background vocals
  • Greg Lisher – guitar
  • Victor Krummenacher – guitar, bass
  • Chris Pedersen – drums
  • Michael Urbano – drums, percussion
  • David Barbe – percussion
  • Alex Kroh – percussion
  • Payton Bradford – backing vocals
  • Carter King – backing vocals
  • Thomas Johnson – backing vocals
  • Dennis Love – backing vocals
  • Brannen Miles – backing vocals
  • Hardy Morris – backing vocals
  • Sanna Olsson – backing vocals
  • Peach Boys – backing vocals
  • Daniel Womack – backing vocals
  • Ansley Stewart – backing vocals
  • Velena Vego – backing vocals
  • Drew Vandenberg – engineer, mixing
  • Myles Boisen – engineer
  • Russell Pilling – engineer
  • Jason Carmer – engineer
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • Michael Wertz – artwork, design

Track listing:

  1. Come Down the Coast
  2. Too High for the Love-In
  3. You’ve Got to Roll
  4. Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out
  5. Peaches in the Summertime
  6. Northern California Girls
  7. Summer Days
  8. La Costa Perdida
  9. Aged in Wood
  10. A Love for All Time

Tom Waits: Blood Money

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On May 7, 2002, “ANTI-label” released “Blood Money”, album by Tom Waits. The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. It was recorded in 2002, at “In The Pocket Studio”, and was produced by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits.

Personnel:

  • Tom Waits – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, organ, Chamberlain
  • Larry Taylor – electric guitar, bass
  • Myles Boisen – guitar
  • Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
  • Matthew Sperry – bass
  • Casey Waits – drums
  • Bent Clausen – bass drum, marimba
  • Gino Robair – bongos, timpani, tom tom, marimba, bells, gong
  • Andrew Borger – marimba
  • Colin Stetson – saxophone
  • Ara Anderson – trumpet
  • Bebe Risenfors – bass clarinet, saxophone, accordion
  • Dawn Harms – violin
  • Matt Brubeck – cello
  • Mule Patterson – effects
  • Oz Fritz – recording, mixing
  • Jacquire King – recording
  • Allen Sudduth – recording
  • Jeff Sloan – engineer
  • Huskey Hoskulds – mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Jeff Abarta – art direction
  • Winni Wintermeyer – design
  • Jesse Dylan – photography
  • Jeff Sloan – production coordinator
  • Julianne Deery – production coordinator

Track listing:

All tracks by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

  1. Misery Is the River of the World
  2. Everything Goes to Hell
  3. Coney Island Baby
  4. All the World Is Green
  5. God’s Away on Business
  6. Another Man’s Vine
  7. Knife Chase
  8. Lullaby
  9. Starving in the Belly of a Whale
  10. The Part You Throw Away
  11. Woe
  12. Calliope
  13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find