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Fred Frith - Eye to Ear (CD)

Eye to Ear
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Album Details: Eye to Ear

Release Date:03/18/1997
Label:Tzadik
UPC:702397750321

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  • All Music Guide

    This CD includes some of the music that guitarist Fred Frith composed for various films after he relocated to Germany in the early 1990s. Since Eye to Ear is essentially a compilation, there's not necessarily any relationship between adjoining tracks. As good film music should, the tracks flow while nothing particularly sticks with you. Following a mellow, melodic, electric guitar bass-led opening, comes "Backroom I," a piece that is somehow soothing in its noisiness, in the way that Loren Mazzacane Connors can be. While a misty electronic drone provides a light, satiny backdrop, Frith mimics a thumb piano with his electric guitar. The piece that follows offers mid-tempo, incidental music, as an accordion brings the Eastern European melodic threads out of the synthesized, sampled morass that then narrows, becoming less active. Following "Thea Und Nat," familiar blues and rock riffs emerge from a composition that sounds somewhat like a skipping grind core album. After this track comes ...the gem of the album, "A Picture of Light," lasting over nine minutes -- a lovely, slushy piece that turns into a simple float ambient. Nothing is hidden; everything rises and recedes in a cycle, as sounds move far and near in an ambience of water droplets and wind chimes. To enjoy Eye to Ear, familiarity with Fred Frith is not as relevant as is an affinity for film music. - Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Fred Frith

In the '60s and '70s, much (if not most) contemporary improvisation was jazz-based. That began to change in the '80s, when a significant number of rock musicians began exploring the possibilities of free improvisation and new classical forms. Fred Frith is one of the more prominent. Co-founder of the underground British band Henry Cow in 1968, composer/improviser/guitar... Read more