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Fred Frith Experimental Avantgarde Free Improvisation 1991 US
Fred Frith - Speechless flac album
  • Performer Fred Frith
  • Title Speechless
  • Date of release 1991
  • Country US
  • Style Experimental, Avantgarde, Free Improvisation
  • Other formats TTA WAV APE RA MPC ASF ADX
  • Genre Jazz / Rock
  • Size MP3 1766 mb
  • Size FLAC 1307 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 161
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Speechless is a 1981 solo album by English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith of the group Henry Cow. It was Frith's third solo album, and was originally released in the United States on LP record on The Residents' Ralph record label. It was the second of three solo albums Frith made for the label.

Fred Frith With Etron Fou Leloublan. Kick The Can (Part 1). Organ – Fred Frith. A2. –Fred Frith With Etron Fou Leloublan. Carnival On Wall St. A3. Voice – Fred Frith, Guigou Chenevier, Margot Mathieu. Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE). RecRec Music.

For his second solo album of the 1980s Fred Frith followed a similar format to Gravity, using different backing musicians for side a (Etron Fou) and b (Massacre). It dates from an extremely productive phase in Frith's career, and is the most essential of his early 80s solo works.

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Saving Grace, 11. Speechless, 12. Conversations With Arc, 13. Domaine De Planousset, 14. Kick The Can (Part 2. More albums from Fred Frith: Nous Autres by Fred Frith. French Gigs by Fred Frith. I Recall by Fred Frith. Gravity by Fred Frith. Outside Looking In by Fred Frith. Guitar Solos by Fred Frith. The Top Of His Head by Fred Frith. View all albums . Speechless.

Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 09 Saving Grace. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 12 Domaine De Planousset. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 13 Kick The Can (Part 2). (play). Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 06 A Spit In The Ocean. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 05 Women Speak To Men; Men Speak To Women. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 11 Conversations With White Arc. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 02 Carnival On Wall Street. Fred Frith 1981 Speechless 04 Laughing.

Speechless was Fred Frith's second album for the San Franciscan Ralph label, and was originally issued in 1981. Like its predecessor Gravity, it's an eclectic, restless, kaleidoscopic record that pulls in elements of folk music, free improv, avant rock and good old fashioned noise and then knits them together with field recordings, tape manipulation and studio trickery. The first half of the record (or side one in vinyl terms) features our Fred in cahoots with French trio Etron Fou Leloublan.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 –Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan Kick The Can (Part 1)
Bass – Fred FrithBass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu
 2:19
A2 –Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan Carnival On Wall Street
Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu
 2:51
A3 –Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan Ahead In The Sand
Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums, Tenor Saxophone – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Voice – Margot Mathieu
 3:16
A4 –Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan Laughing Matter / Esperanza
Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu
 7:47
A5 –Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan Women Speak To Men; Men Speak To Women
Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardComposed By [Co-composed By] – Tina CurranDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu
 5:39
A6 –Fred Frith And Massacre A Spit In The Ocean
Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher
 2:17
A7 –Fred Frith And Massacre Navajo
Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill Laswell, Fred FrithDrums – Fred MaherSaxophone [Snake] – Steve BuchananTape, Bass – Tina Curran
 3:05
A8 –Fred Frith Balance
Bass, Drums – Fred Frith
 5:04
B1 –Fred Frith And Massacre Saving Grace
Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher
 1:57
B2 –Fred Frith Speechless
Bass – Fred Frith
 3:05
B3 –Fred Frith And Massacre Conversations With White Arc
Bass, Composed By – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher
 1:14
B4 –Fred Frith Domaine De Planousset
Tape, Bass – Tina Curran
 2:59
B5 –Fred Frith Kick The Can (Part 2)
Bass – Fred Frith
 2:14
Bonus Tracks
B6 –Fred Frith The Entire Works Of Henry Cow 1:00
B7 –Massacre So Schnell Ich
Bass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred MaherEngineer – Jean-Marc FoussatGuitar, Keyboards – Fred Frith
 3:25
B8 –Fred Frith I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is
Noises, Drums – Fred FrithVoice – Tina Curran
 1:06
B9 –Fred Frith No More War
Bass, Keyboards, Composed By – Steve GoreDrums – Steve KretzmerVoice, Tape – Fred Frith
 4:46
B10 –Fred Frith Typical American Family
Voice, Instruments [Homemade Instruments] – Fred Frith
 1:01
B11 –Fake Dig
Alto Saxophone – Masami ShinodaBass – Tetsuto KoyamaDrums – MiyamotoEffects – Fred FrithKokyu – Chie MukaiKoto [Taisho Koto] – Kenichi TakedaVoice – Keiji Haino, Tenko
 3:07

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – EFA – CA 14562-08
  • Distributed By – RecRec Genossenschaft
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – RecRec Music
  • Copyright (c) – RecRec Music
  • Recorded At – Studio Free Son
  • Recorded At – Sunrise Studios
  • Recorded At – CBGB
  • Recorded At – 28 rue Dunois Paris
  • Recorded At – Studio Dig
  • Recorded At – Studio Pass
  • Recorded At – KUNM

Credits

  • Engineer – Charlie Martin (tracks: A6, A7, B1, B3), François Riether (tracks: A1 to A5)
  • Illustration [Lithography] – Busag
  • Layout – Peter Bäder
  • Mastered By – Paul Zinman
  • Voice, Guitar, Violin, Mellotron, Composed By – Fred Frith

Notes

Tracks A1 to A5: recorded at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and Studio Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland, July & August 1980.
Tracks A6, A7 & B1: are partly based on a live concert recorded at CBGB in New York, April 1980, subsequently altered and added to in Switzerland.
Track B3: is from the same concert and is an improvised piece heard as played.
Tracks A8, B2, B4 & B5: recorded at Studio Sunrise, July & August 1980.
Track B6: released as part of Morgan Fisher's Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan-Fisher) compilation, contains a portion of every track recorded by Henry Cow assembled according to a strict mathematical system and lasting exactly one minute, collated at Pass, NYC and KUNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1980.
Track B7: recorded live at Rue Dunois, Paris in 1981 and at home in NYC.
Track B8: is from Elliott Sharp's State Of The Union compilation, recorded at home in NYC, 1982.
Track B9: is from a record-by-mail project with Steve Gore for the LP Ridin' On A Bummer, recorded at home, 1983.
Track B10: is from the Japanese compilation Sound Cosmodel, recorded at home, 1982.
Track B11: is from the Japanese compilation Welcome To Dreamland (Another Japan), a collage constructed out from the other songs on that record, mixed at Studio Dig, Tokyo, February 1985.

Speechless was first released by Ralph Records in 1981 (tracks A1 to B5 only).

Tracks are listed 1 to 19 on the inlay card.

p + c RecRec Music 1991
Made in Switzerland

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: SUISA
  • Label Code: LC 7981

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
FF 8106 Fred Frith Speechless ‎(LP, Album) Ralph Records FF 8106 US 1981
ReCDec 902 Fred Frith Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE) RecRec Music ReCDec 902 Switzerland 1991
ESD 80542 Fred Frith Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE) East Side Digital ESD 80542 US 1991
BELLE 152441 Fred Frith Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Pap) Belle Antique BELLE 152441 Japan 2015
ReR/FRO 04 Fred Frith Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE) ReR Megacorp, Fred Records ReR/FRO 04 UK 2001


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