Groups

FRED FRITH TRIO

(with Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn)

Road (2021)

Closer to the Ground (2018)

Another Day in Fucking Paradise (2016)

FRELOSA

(with Lotte Anker and Samuel Duehsler)

Storytelling (2017)

COSA BRAVA

(with Matthias Bossi, Shahzad Ismaily, Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, The Norman Conquest)

 Z-Sides (2024)

The Letter (2012)

Ragged Atlas (2010)

MASSACRE

(with Bill Laswell and Charles Hayward)

Love Me Tender (2013)

Lonely Heart (2007)

Meltdown (2001)

Funny Valentine (1998)

DEATH AMBIENT

(with Kato Hideki, Ikue Mori) 

Drunken Forest (2007)

Synesthesia (1998)

Death Ambient (1995)

KEEP THE DOG

(with Jean Derome, Charles Hayward, René Lussier, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins)

That House We Lived In (2003)

FRED FRITH GUITAR QUARTET

(with Nick Didkovsky, René Lussier, Mark Stewart) 

Upbeat (1998)

Ayaya Moses (1997)

SKELETON CREW

(with Tom Cora and Zeena Parkins) 

Free Dirt (2022)

The Country of Blinds (1986)

Learn to Talk (1984)

MASSACRE

(with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher)

Killing Time (1981)

ART BEARS

(with Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause):

The World As It Is Today (1981)

Winter Songs (1979)

 Hopes and Fears (1978)

HENRY COW

(with Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson, John Greaves, Lindsay Cooper, Dagmar Krause et al): 

The 40th Anniversary Box Set (2009)

Western Culture (1978)

Concerts (1976)

In Praise of Learning (1975)

Unrest (1974)

Legend (1973)

SOLO PROJECTS

Prints (2002)

Cheap at Half the Price (1983)

Speechless (1981)

Gravity (1980)

MUSIC FOR DANCE & THEATRE 

Field Days (2016)

Propaganda (1986/2016)

Nowhere/Sideshow/Thin Air (2009)

The Happy End Problem (2006)

The Previous Evening (1997)

Accidental (1996)

Allies (1996)

Helter Skelter (1991)

The Technology of Tears (1987)

MUSIC FOR FILM

Atmospheres (2023)

Eye to Ear III (2010)

Touch the Sound (2005)

Eye to Ear II (2004)

Rivers & Tides (2003)

Eye to Ear (1997)

Middle of the Moment (1995)

Step Across the Border (1990)

The Top of His Head (1989)

AS IMPROVISOR

SOLO

Fifty (solo electric guitar) (2024)

Woodwork (live at Ateliers Claus) (2019)

To Sail, To Sail (solo acoustic guitar) (2008)

Clearing (solo electric guitar) (2001)

Guitar Solos (1974)

DUO

The Life and Behavior (with Shelley Burgon) (2025)

Moving Parts (with Sudhu Tewari) (2024)

Live at Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (with Jean-Pierre Drouet) (2024)

Kammgarn Chronicles (with Werner Bärtschi) (2024)

A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall (with Ikue Mori) (2020)

You Are Here (with Hans Koch) (2017)

It Rolls (with Fredy Studer and Katharina Weber( (2015)

Hello, I Must Be Going (with Evan Parker) (2015)

The Natural Order (with John Butcher) (2014)

Backscatter Bright Blue (with Barry Guy) (2014)

Edge of the Light (with Lotte Anker) (2014)

Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (with Annie Lewandowski) (2011)

Late Works (with John Zorn) (2010)

Cutter Heads (with Chris Brown) (2007)

The Art of Memory (with John Zorn) (1994)

Live in Prague, Washington and Moscow (with Chris Cutler) (1990)

French Gigs (with Lol Coxhill) (1982)

TRIO & MORE

Hidden Danger Lets Me In (w. Lantskap Logic) (2023)

Plus Ça Change (w. Life Only / Dimos Vryzas & Diego Aguirre DAZ) (2023)

This or Here and That (with Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Clara Weil) (2020)

Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down (with Cenk Ergün and Sudhu Tewari) (2020)

Lantskap Logic (with Evelyn Davis and Phillip Greenlief) (2018)

It Rolls (with Katharina Weber and Fredi Studer) (2015)

Contretemps, etc (with Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis) (2011)

The Compass, Log and Lead (with Carla Kihlstedt & Stevie Wishart) (2005)

All is bright but it is not day (with Pierre Tanguay & Jean Derome) (2002)

Dearness (with Anne Bourne and John Oswald) (2002)

I dream of you jumping (with Louis Sclavis and Jean-Pierre Drouet) (2001)

Later (with Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori) (2000)

Saturn’s Finger (with Maybe Monday) (1999)

Voice of America (with Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton) (1982)

OTHER

Oakland/Lisbon (MMM Quartet) (2016)

Metz’ Arsenal (MMM Quartet, w. Joëlle Léandre, Alvin Curran, Urs Leimgruber) (2012)

Digital Wildlife (Maybe Monday w. Joan Jeanrenaud) (2001)

Whisperings (with Franziska Baumann, Bernard Trontin & Michel Wintsch) (2001)

Epiphanies (with Derek Bailey’s Company) (1985)

AS COMPOSER

Grenzgänger (compositions performed by Percussion Art Ensemble Bern) (2024)

Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet (with various groups) (2024)

A Miscellany of Mishaps (compilation of composed works) (2024)

Something About This Landscape (with Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles) (2023)

The Big Picture (with Arte Quartet, Katharina Weber, Lucas Niggli) (2009)

Still/Urban (with Arte Quartet) (2009)

Back to Life (with the Callithumpian Consort, Joan Jeanrenaud, William Winant, Daan Vandewalle) (2007)

Eleventh Hour (with Arditti Quartet) (2005)

Freedom in Fragments (Rova Sax Quartet) (2002) 

Traffic Continues (with Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) (2000)

Pacifica (with Ensemble Eva Kant) (1998)

Helter Skelter (with Que d’la Gueule) (1992)

Long on Logic (Rova Sax Quartet) (1987)

SPECIAL PROJECTS

All is Always Now (70th birthday box set—live at The Stone with Laurie Anderson, Amma Ateria, Sylvie Courvoiser, Nava Dunkelman, Jordan Glenn, Shelley Hirsch, Jason Hoopes, Annie Lewandowski, Jessica Lurie, Miya Masaoka, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker, Gyan Riley, Else Olsen Storesund, Sudhu Tewari, Theresa Wong, Clara Weil, Nate Wooley (2019)

Kwangsi-Quail (with Helen Mirra) (2014)

Live at Café Oto (with Christian Marclay) (2012)

AS GUEST

Dave Douglas: Metamorphosis (w. Wadada Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Kris Davis, Yasushi Nakamura, Matt Mitchell) (2017)

Matthew Edwards and the Unfortunates: The Fates (2014) and Folklore (2017)

Orkestrova: Ascension (with Nels Kline, Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, Carla Kihlstedt et al) (2005)

Alvin Curran: Lost Marbles (2004)

John Zorn: Xu Feng (2001)

Christian Wolff: Burdocks (2001)

Stefan Tickmeyer: The Science Project (1997)

Lars Hollmer’s Looping Home Orchestra: Live (1993)

Naked City: Absinthe (1993)

Naked City: Radio (1993)

Naked City: Grand Guignol (1992)

Naked City: Heretic (1992)

John Zorn: Naked City (1990)

Bob Ostertag: Attention Span (1990)

Heiner Goebbels: Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (1989)

Christian Marclay: More Encores (1988)

John Zorn: Hu Die (1986)

John Zorn: The Big Gundown (1984)

Material: Memory Serves (1981)

The Residents: Commercial Album (1980)

Eugene Chadbourne: 2000 Statues (1979)

Lindsay Cooper: Rags (1979)

Gavin Bryars: Squirrel & the Ricketty-Racketty Bridge (1976)

Brian Eno: Before and After Science and Music for Films (1976)

Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (1974) and Ruth is Stranger than Richard (1976)

AUDIO LIBRARY

Etymology (with Tom Cora) (1997)