Fred Frith

After a couple of unavoidable cancellations, Fred's week at The Stone in late August has been updated, details on concerts page.

Playing partners include Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Ikue Mori and Nate Wooley, The Fred Frith Trio with Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn, Annie Lewandowski and Theresa Wong, Sudhu Tewari, Jeannie-Aprille Tang and Nava Dunkelman.

The new Massacre CD Love Me Tender, consisting of extracts from concerts in 1999 (Moers and Zurich) and 2008 (Ferrara) is out!! More performances to be announced soon...

New concerts in France, Norway, Netherlands Switzerland and Japan have been added for 2013 - see concerts page for details, and more coming very soon. Meanwhile mastering is complete on a vinyl edition of extracts from Fred's duo with Christian Marclay at Cafe Oto in July 2012, to be released by Oto as a benefit to raise money for new equipment for the club.

..will return to life at Roulette in Brooklyn on September 19th and 20th 2013, with possible additional shows in Philadelphia and Boston (not yet confirmed). The 11 piece band with FF, Marië Abe, Jordan Glenn, Kaethe Hostetter, Kasey Knudsen, Dominique Leone, Ava Mendoza, Lisa Mezzacappa, Aaron Novik, Willie Winant, and Wobbly is also expected to appear at the Victoriaville Festival in May 2014

More songs, stories, and joyful noise from FF, Carla Kilhstedt, Zeena Parkins, Shahzad Ismaily, Matthias Bossi and the Norman Conquest.

"Anyone who is searching for a masterpiece: The Letter is one"

Klaus Hübner, Westzeit

"Courageous, wild, beautiful.....funny, unorthodox, oblique, rowdy, poetic." Roland Spiegel, BR-Klassik

A memorable concert recording now available on the French In Situ label.

"Ils sont libres comme une eau de spasme, indemnes de toutes les tempêtes. Guerre et paix chez eux, alarmes et fracas. Mais surtout : une improvisation qui ne ressemble à aucune autre. Un miracle?" Le Son du Grisli

"One of the best improv recordings I've ever heard" William Winant

Compositions by Fred Frith, W.A. Mathieu, Robert Morris, Roy Whelden

"The meld between poet, composers and performers is as close to ideal as you are going to find today....a masterpiece..."

Classical-Modern Music Review

A new CD of duos by Annie Lewandowski (piano, preparations) and Fred Frith (electric guitar, preparations)

"Curiosity, tenderness, mischief"

From the liner notes by Ben Piekut

Live and studio recordings for SWR's 2007 New Jazz Meeting project, with Daniela Cattivelli, Wu Fei, Marque Gilmore, Anantha Krishnan, Tilman Müller, & Patrice Scanlon

"It is not the grand, flaunting gestures that define the quality of his music but the interaction, the listening to each other, the fine tuning of sounds."

From the liner notes by Reinhard Kager

"Frith's ideas never stray far from joyous music making" All About Jazz, May 2010

"...reveals another form of beauty" Harry Lachner, WDR 5

"A masterpiece that draws from the contemporary musical cosmos of song, rock, folk and improvisation to create wonderfully strong-willed atmospheres."
Christoph Jaritz, Woche

For full catalog of works by Fred Frith on Intakt: www.intaktrec.ch