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Nineteen spontaneous compositions for guitar solo (and one for guitar duo)

by Fred Frith

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Sorrow Music 01:58
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Access 04:31
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Esse 02:15
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Insomnia 01:13
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Tenebris 02:29

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released August 17, 2023

1. Dependable Phantoms (for Hans) 4’49
2. Sorrow Music 2’03
3. Access 4’33
4. Stay That Way 2’11
5. Esse 2’22
6. Insomnia 1’18
7. Throw the Bolt 2’53
8. Don’t know where,
don’t know when 1’26
9. Light erases the Thought 6’11
10. Fragment Koncertu 1 0’51
11. New Shoes (for A.R.) 3’16
12. Out of the Ice 3’02
13. Romanisches Café 2’32
14. Fragment Koncertu 2 2’20
15. Wilder Tongues 2’44
16. Landscape with Mercy 3’02
17. Stitches in Time 1'00
18. Oh Wie Schön ist Panama 5’01
19. Daria’s Regard 2’13
20. Tenebris 2’26
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1, 6, 7, 11 and 19 recorded at Noise New York, September 1988
Engineer: Kramer
Originally released By RecRec Switzerland on the first CD reissue of Guitar Solos in 1991
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2 recorded at Argonaut Studios, London, December 1975
Engineer: Tom Newman
Assistant engineer: Sarah Baker-Smith
Originally released on A Random Sampler, Random Radar Records, 1977. Special thanks to Dave Newhouse and John Paige.
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3 recorded at home in 2001 by Henry Kaiser for his compilation 156 Strings. Originally released by Cuneiform, 2002. Special thanks to Henry and Steve Feigenbaum.
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4 and 15 recorded at Noise New York, August 1988
Engineer: Kramer
Originally released on the Drive to Heaven, Welcome to Caos compilation, Wave Records, 1989
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5, 8, 12, 16 and 20 are sketches from the Film l’Ancre by Jen Debauche, recorded at Guerrilla Recording, Oakland in April 2023
Engineer: Myles Boisen
Special thanks to Jen and to Bieke de Keersmaeker.
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9 recorded at home in Oakland, CA on March 22, 2011 for the $100 Dollar Guitar Project, released by Bridge Records in 2013. Special thanks to Nick Didkovsky and Becky Starobin.
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10 and 14 recorded live at MOZG Club, Bydgoszsz, Poland in 1998, originally released as part of 5 LAT, a limited edition compilation by Muzyka Mozgu in 1999. Special thanks to Slawomir Janicki.
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13 recorded live at Romanisches Café, Roppongi, Tokyo in February 1988, originally released by RecRec Switzerland as part of the Step Across the Border soundtrack CD in 1991
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17 recorded at home in Oakland, CA in December 2016 to a graphic score by Heike Liss. I recorded two solos and superimposed them.
Originally released by Spectropol Records, Chile in 2017 as part of the Frets of Yore/Guerrilla Graphics compilation. Special thanks to Gonzalo Fuentes.
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18 recorded at Noise New York, September 1988
Engineer: Kramer
Originally released By RecRec Switzerland on the first CD reissue of Gravity in 1991
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Mastered at Headless Buddha, Oakland in August 2023
Engineer: Myles Boisen

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