Derek Bailey-guitar / Antoine Berthiaume-guitar / Fred Frith-guitar
"Guitarist, composer and improviser on the modern jazz scene, Antoine Berthiaume was born in Montreal in 1977. Berthiaume has studied with a vast array of teachers: at home with Neil Smolar and Beno攖 Charest, in Toronto with Lorne Lofsky and in New York with Mordy Ferber, saxophonist Dave Binney and pianist Charlie Banacos. He is pursuing a Masters degree in contemporary composition at the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Denis Gougeon.
On his first disc, "Soshin," on Ambiances Magnetiques, Antoine Berthiaume's duos with Fred Frith and Derek Bailey continue his exploration of the full range of improvisation and the thousand-and-one facets of the guitar. A first meeting with Bailey, in London in February 2001, opened the doors to a new conception of improvisation and allowed him to discover a musical scene that was incredibly diverse and open. During a second trip to London, in August 2001, he recorded with Bailey and appeared in a solo performance at an Instant Music Meeting show organised by Paul Hood through the London Musicians?Collective. Eight months later, Bailey and Berthiaume would release their session concurrently: part of it on Bailey's compilation, "Visitors Book," (on Incus, a label Bailey and Evan Parker founded in 1970), and part on "Soshin" (on the Ambiances Magnetiques label). Then it was back to Montreal, where a visit by Frith was the occasion for a recording session with Bernard Grenon at Studio 270.
By turns bruitiste and traditional, Soshin is a meeting of the masters, a pilgrimage to the abode of the reinventors of improvisation in which Berthiaume is imbued with the presence of two great guitarists."
Label: Ambiances Magnetiques - AM 113 CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2003
Country: Canada

Dresser (who's worked most notably with anthony braxton, tim berne, john zorn and bob ostertag ) is an interesting choice and much more of a jazzer than Frith's usual collaborators, and it's his presence that distinguishes this record from the later death ambient trios of mori, frith and bassist kato hideki. Dresser's unabashed virtuosity on his instrument and his dark, resonant yet springy tone meshes beautifully with mori's rhythmic matrices, prodding funkily one second, dropping to a buzzsaw arco drone the next. He also provokes frith into more expansive gestures than on the death ambient material.

2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of this collaboration album featuring four previously unreleased live bonus tracks. The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class master musicians. Richard Thompson once joked that if his presence on an album with John French, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser was expected to help it appeal to a wider audience, it didn't say much for the state of their careers. Their first album from this unlikely ensemble mixes sophisticated playing with some humorous repertoire and idiosyncratic covers. Live, Love, Larf & Loaf covers a bewildering variety of genres, from Folk and R&B to Avant-Garde and Comic Opera. The New York Times made it their Rock Album of the Week - "As it draws on music from at least four continents, Live, Love, Larf and Loaf romps past borderlines". Fledgling.

Design – Travassos
Engineer, Mixed By, Mastered By, Engineer [Creative] – Myles Boisen
Executive-Producer – Pedro Costa
Guitar, Music By, Producer – Fred Frith
Trumpet, Music By, Producer – Darren Johnston

Ikue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer.

Live Recording
Personnel: Fred Frith (guitar); John Zorn (alto saxophone).
Recording information: Tonic, New York, New York (09/15/2003).

"Drei Gegen Troja" by Hussi Kutlucan, starring Lars Rudolph, Augustine Thullah, Hussi Kutlucan (1-11)
"Thirst" by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow (12-16)

Quartets is a 1994 studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It consists of two compositions by Frith, "Lelekovice, String Quartet #1", performed by the Violet Wires String Quartet, and "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not", performed by an electric guitar quartet. Frith performs with the guitar quartet, but not with the string quartet.
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Background
"Lelekovice, String Quartet #1" was composed by Frith in 1990 and was dedicated to Iva Bittová, Lelekovice being the name of the village near Brno in the Czech Republic where Bittová lives. It was first performed in July 1991 by the Edison Quartet at the Nieuwe Musiek Festival, in Middelburg, the Netherlands, and was used by the United States choreographer Amanda Miller in her dance piece, My Father's Vertigo in 1991. The recording on this album was made in December 1992 by the Violet Wires String Quartet at Angel Studios, London. "Lelekovice" was recorded again in June 2003 by the Arditti Quartet and appeared on Frith's 2005 album, Eleventh Hour.[2][3]
"The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not" was commissioned by Roulette, New York City and composed by Frith in 1989.[2] It was first performed in February 1989 by Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar at The Kitchen, New York City,[2] and recorded by the same group in February 1989 at Studio Victor, Montreal.[4][5] An album of this piece and other recordings by the group were released on Fin de Siecle (1989). Only sections A and C of this composition appear on the album.
Frith did not play on "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not" with Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar, and when he wanted to perform this piece himself, he assembled an electric guitar quartet in 1992, comprising René Lussier, Nick Didkovsky, Mark Howell and himself. The quartet recorded the complete piece in April 1992 at Sorcerer Sound, New York, releasing it on Quartets. Later Mark Stewart replaced Howell and the new quartet became known as the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, touring internationally and recording two albums, Ayaya Moses (1997) and Upbeat (1999).
Parts of "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not" also appear in the documentary film, Step Across the Border (1990), and its soundtrack, Step Across the Border (1990), performed by an electric guitar quartet which Frith conducts.

Bass, Electric Guitar, Organ, Performer [Metal Objects], Producer, Liner Notes – Fred Frith
Design – Chippy, Heung-Heung Chin
Drums, Gong, Cymbal, Performer [Metal Objects, Simtak, Paper], Vibraphone, Steel Drums, Marimba, Toy Piano, Voice, Bell Tree – Evelyn Glennie
Engineer [Assistant] – Patrik Höderrath
Executive-Producer – John Zorn
Executive-Producer [Associate Producer] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Mastered By – Scott Hull
Mixed By [First Re-constructions] – Jonathan Segel, Myles Boisen
Music By – Glennie, Frith
Recorded By – Jörg T. Schnabel
Recorded By [Final Recordings], Mixed By [Final Recordings] – Myles Boisen
Technician [Percussion] – James Wilson
Recorded 14th to 16th July 2003 at ZuckerFabrik, Dormagen. Equipment in Dormagen: Whitehouse Studio, Cologne.

Bagpipes – Roger Kent Parsons (tracks: 1 to 5)
Engineer [At CBGB] – Charlie Martin (tracks: 7, 8, 10, 12)
Engineer [In France] – François Riethier (tracks: 1 to 5)
Engineer [In Switzerland] – Etienne Conod, Tomas Kurth (tracks: 6 to 13)
Guitar, Violin, Composed By – Fred Frith
Layout – Thomas Kurth
Mastered By – Paul Zinman
Photography By – Tina Curran
Producer – Etienne Conod, Fred Frith, Tina Curran
Recorder, Other [Unusual Edits] – Tina Curran (tracks: 1 to 5)

Accordion – Silvia Fanti
Alto Saxophone – Daniela Cattivelli
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Olivia Bignardi
Composed By, Producer – Fred Frith
Double Bass – Pierangelo Galantino
Engineer – Davide Sandri
Engineer [Voice Recording] – Carlos Gabezas
Ensemble – Eva Kant
Executive-Producer – John Zorn
Executive-Producer [Associate] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Flute, Piccolo Flute, Soprano Saxophone – Stefano Zorzanello
Guitar [Prepared] – Claudio Lanteri, Paolo Angeli
Keyboards – Tiziano Popoli
Lyrics By – Pablo Neruda
Marimba – Nicola Zonca
Mastered By – Allan Tucker
Mixed By – Peter Hardt
Percussion – Andrea Martignoni, Mario Martignoni, Pino Urso
Piano – Filomena Forleo
Tape, Performer [Records, Cds], Coordinator [Project] – Massimo Simonini
Trombone – Giorgio Simbola, Salvatore Panu
Trumpet – Ferdinando D'Andria
Violin – Ferdinando D'Andria, Pierangelo Galantino
Voice – Margareth Kammerer
Voice [Neruda Poem] – Sergio Meza
Composed 1993-1995.
Recorded at Centro Musica, Modena, July 1995.
Voice recorded at Studio Constantinople, Santiago, September 1997.
Mixed at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, February 1998.
Mastered at Foothill Digital, NYC.

Alto Saxophone, Sounds [Mouthpieces, Duck-calls] – John Zorn
Compiled By [Assembled] – Bob Boster, Fred Frith
Instruments [Home-made Instruments], Voice, Keyboards [Casio Monophonic Keyboard] – Fred Frith
1 & 5 recorded live at P.A.S.S., New York City on 25th January 1983.
2, 3, & 4 recorded live at Roulette, New York City on 27th and 28th July 1985.
Assembled from cassette recordings at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, April 1997.
Issued in a Digipak with obi strip.
Made in USA.
Catalog# on spine: "FRA 06".
Distributed in USA by ReR USA, 303 S. Broadway Suite 386 Denver, CO 80209, USA
Distributed in Japan by LOCUS SOLUS.
1-18-8 Naka-Ochiai, Shinjk, Tokyo.