Design – Tom Kurth
Mixed By [Remixed By], Engineer [Mastering Engineer] – Myles Boisen
Photography [Cover Photo] – Tina Curran
Written By, Mixed By [Remixed By] – Fred Frith
Recorded at home on a 4-track tape recorder in the summer of 1983.
Drums recorded at various times and places
2004 re-issue of the original Ralph Records LP, but no extra tracks.
Comes as a digipak with clear tray.
Manufactured and made in USA.

Design [Cover] – Heike Liss
Electric Guitar, Instruments [Preparations] – Fred Frith
Engineer [Mastering] – Myles Boisen
Engineer [Recording] – Barton McGuire
Layout – Renée Paaschburg
Liner Notes – Benjamin Piekut
Photography By [Photo] – Seán Kelly
Piano, Instruments [Preparations], Mixed By – Annie Lewandowski
Recorded in the Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, May 4, 2010
Mixed [in] Southampton, August 2010
Mastered at Headless Buddha, Oakland, January 12, 2011
Made in Denmark

Fred Frith is simultaneously a singular musical figure and a collection of musical lifetimes. He‘s the composer who wrote fragile avant-garde music in the tradition of John Cage and Earle Brown, the innovator who created new concepts of underground rock with his colleagues in the band Henry Cow, and the improviser who developed his very own language on the guitar. The many facets of Frith‘s musical oeuvre shimmer in vibrant and unique colors, but stand as one rainbow monolith of musical creation, never disintegrating into esoteric eclecticism. Always musically curious and unbiased, he develops his ideas in the moment, demonstrating in real time how his creative process, while free of old hat conventions and tricks, creates an immediate yet unrandom and committed music. At the core is his unique guitar playing, which is on full display across these two records. His debut, "Guitar Solos" (1974), opened up a space beyond rock and improvised music, and now, 50 years later comes "Fifty" (2024), a new solo guitar album that sounds completely different and yet familiar, that adds to his monolith of musical creation with another new vibrant color.

Guitar Solos (1974):

Hello Music
Glass c/w Steel
Ghosts
Out of Their Heads (on Locoweed)
Not Forgotten
Hollow Music
Heat c/w Moment
No Birds

Fifty (2024):

Dawns
Outer Order
Tempus Fugit
Quicksilver (for Simone)
Unterwegs (for Roman)
Phalaropes
Jack’s Neap Tide
Schlechte Gewissen
Move Indigo
To Do
The Map of Dreams
Locomoting
Dusks

Genre: Jazz
Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Free Improvisation
Country: US

Recorded At – Jankowski Soundfabrik GmbH
Mixed At – Jankowski Soundfabrik GmbH
Mastered At – Headless Buddha Mastering Lab
Published By – Intakt Records
Artwork [Cover Art] – Heike Liss
Design [Cover], Graphic Design – Fiona Ryan
Electric Guitar – Fred Frith (tracks: 7, 14)
Electronics [Laptop Electronics] – Ikue Mori
Instruments [Home-made Instruments], Toy [Various Toys], Performer [Various Objects] – Fred Frith
Liner Notes – Fred Frith, Ikue Mori
Mastered By – Myles Boisen
Photography By [Photo] – Ayako Mogi
Producer [Produced By] – Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller (5), Fred Frith, Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt
Recorded By, Mixed By – Peter Hardt

Recorded in December 1975 & January 1976.

Accordion – Heinz Huber (tracks: 9 to 21)
Bassoon, Contrabassoon – Noriko Shimada
Cello – Michael Kasper
Clarinet – Roland Diry
Co-producer [Co-Production] – Markus Heuger, Dr. Ulrich Kurth, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
Conductor – Franck Ollu (tracks: 1 to 8)
Double Bass, Electric Bass – Thomas Fichter
Drum Machine [Drum Machines] – Ikue Mori (tracks: 9 to 21)
Engineer – Stefan Hackspiel
Engineer [Head] – Carlos Albrecht
Engineer [Mastering] – Adrian von Ripka
Engineer [Mixing Assistant] – Sebastian Stein
Engineer [Recording Assistant] – Jahn Nehring, Sebastian Stein
Engineer [Technical] – Martin Cichy
Executive-Producer – Stefan Winter
Flute, Flute [Bass], Piccolo Flute – Dietmar Wiesner
Guitar, Directed By [Music Director], Composed By, Producer – Fred Frith
Harp, Harp [Electric] – Zeena Parkins (tracks: 9 to 21)
Horns – Franck Ollu
Layout – Günter Mattei
Oboe, English Horn – Catherine Milliken
Percussion – Rainer Römer
Percussion, Cimbalom [Cymbalom] – Rumi Ogawa-Helferich
Photography By – Heike Liss
Piano, Sampler – Hermann Kretzschmar
Producer [A Production Of] – Winter&Winter
Recorded By [A Recording By] – WDR Köln
Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet – Wolfgang Stryi
Trombone – Uwe Dierksen
Trumpet – Bruce Nockles
Viola – Susan Knight
Violin – Freya Kirby, Hilary Sturt
Digital recording at "Das TAT im Bockenheimer Depot", Frankfurt, December 14th - 17th, 1998
Digital mixing at Musikhochschule, Detmold, July 19th - 23rd, 1999
Digital editing at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, August 9th, 1999
Digital mastering with super bit mapping at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, October 12th, 1999
"Traffic Continues" (1996) consists of a number of cells of composed music which can be juxtaposed with improvisation of various kinds. The structure and precise content are determined spontaneously by the conductor, with the help of the players, during the course of each performance. Commissioned by the Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Austria, it was first performed in September 1996.
"Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora)" (1998) was constructed, in the immediate aftermath of his death, around samples of the late Tom Cora's unique and extraordinary cello playing. Interpolated with great sensitivity by Hermann Kretzschmar, these quotations were taken from <A HREF=
>"Etymology"</A>, a record for sampling enthusiasts made by Skeleton Crew for the Rarefaction label in 1995. Commissioned by the Ensemble Modern, and premiered in the Philharmonie Köln in June 1998
(C) + (P) 2000 Winter&Winter, München, Germany
CD-SmartPac® 193532321.1-53: Herzog + Idex
CD-Packaging M 97 10 405.1
Print: Peter Postel GmbH
Made in Germany
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16 page booklet attached to SmartPac