Fred Frith – Guitar Solos/Fifty

Double vinyl LP pressing. 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."

Disc 1

1. Guitar Solos (1974)
2. Hello Music
3. Glass C/W Steel
4. Ghosts
5. Out of Their Heads (On Locoweed)
6. Not Forgotten
7. Hollow Music
8. Heat C/W Moment
9. No Birds
10. Fifty (2024)
11. Dawns
12. Outer Order
13. Tempus Fugit
14. Quicksilver (For Simone)
15. Unterwegs (For Roman)
16. Phalaropes
17. Jack's Neap Tide
18. Schlechte Gewissen
19. Move Indigo
20. To Do
21. The Map of Dreams
22. Locomoting
23. Dusks

Label: Week-End Records

Catalog: 5

Genre: Rock