Fred Frith - Speechless FLAC

Fred Frith Switzerland Recrec Music Experimental Avantgarde Free Improvisation 1991

Genre:	Jazz / Rock
Performer:	Fred Frith
Title:	Speechless
Style:	Experimental, Avantgarde, Free Improvisation
Date of release:	1991
Label:	RecRec Music
Catalog Number:	RecRec 902
Country:	Switzerland
FLAC album size:	2011 mb
MP3 album size:	1516 mb

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Tracklist

1	–Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan	Carnival On Wall Street Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu	2:51
2	–Fred Frith And Massacre	Navajo Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill Laswell, Fred FrithDrums – Fred MaherSaxophone [Snake] – Steve BuchananTape, Bass – Tina Curran	3:05
3	–Fake	Dig Alto Saxophone – Masami ShinodaBass – Tetsuto KoyamaDrums – MiyamotoEffects – Fred FrithKokyu – Chie MukaiKoto [Taisho Koto] – Kenichi TakedaVoice – Keiji Haino, Tenko	3:07
4	–Fred Frith And Massacre	Saving Grace Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher	1:57
5	–Fred Frith	Typical American Family Voice, Instruments [Homemade Instruments] – Fred Frith	1:01
6	–Fred Frith	No More War Bass, Keyboards, Composed By – Steve GoreDrums – Steve KretzmerVoice, Tape – Fred Frith	4:46
7	–Fred Frith	The Entire Works Of Henry Cow	1:00
8	–Fred Frith And Massacre	Conversations With White Arc Bass, Composed By – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher	1:14
9	Bonus Tracks
10	–Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan	Ahead In The Sand Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums, Tenor Saxophone – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Voice – Margot Mathieu	3:16
11	–Fred Frith	Speechless Bass – Fred Frith	3:05
12	–Fred Frith	Domaine De Planousset Tape, Bass – Tina Curran	2:59
13	–Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan	Kick The Can (Part 1) Bass – Fred FrithBass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu	2:19
14	–Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan	Women Speak To Men; Men Speak To Women Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardComposed By [Co-composed By] – Tina CurranDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu	5:39
15	–Massacre	So Schnell Ich Bass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred MaherEngineer – Jean-Marc FoussatGuitar, Keyboards – Fred Frith	3:25
16	–Fred Frith	Balance Bass, Drums – Fred Frith	5:04
17	–Fred Frith And Etron Fou Leloublan	Laughing Matter / Esperanza Bass, Voice – Ferdinand RichardDrums – Guigou ChenevierOrgan, Harmonium – Jo ThirionSoprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Margot Mathieu	7:47
18	–Fred Frith And Massacre	A Spit In The Ocean Alto Saxophone – George CartwrightBaritone Saxophone – Mars WilliamsBass – Bill LaswellDrums – Fred Maher	2:17
19	–Fred Frith	Kick The Can (Part 2) Bass – Fred Frith	2:14
20	–Fred Frith	I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is Noises, Drums – Fred FrithVoice – Tina Curran	1:06

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
FF 8106	Fred Frith	Speechless ‎(LP, Album)	Ralph Records	FF 8106	US	1981
ReCDec 902	Fred Frith	Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE)	RecRec Music	ReCDec 902	Switzerland	1991
ESD 80542	Fred Frith	Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE)	East Side Digital	ESD 80542	US	1991
BELLE 152441	Fred Frith	Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Pap)	Belle Antique	BELLE 152441	Japan	2015
ReR/FRO 04	Fred Frith	Speechless ‎(CD, Album, RE)	ReR Megacorp, Fred Records	ReR/FRO 04	UK	2001

Credits

Engineer – Charlie Martin (tracks: A6, A7, B1, B3), François Riether (tracks: A1 to A5)
Illustration [Lithography] – Busag
Layout – Peter Bäder
Mastered By – Paul Zinman
Voice, Guitar, Violin, Mellotron, Composed By – Fred Frith

Notes

Tracks A1 to A5: recorded at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and Studio Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland, July & August 1980.
Tracks A6, A7 & B1: are partly based on a live concert recorded at CBGB in New York, April 1980, subsequently altered and added to in Switzerland.
Track B3: is from the same concert and is an improvised piece heard as played.
Tracks A8, B2, B4 & B5: recorded at Studio Sunrise, July & August 1980.
Track B6: released as part of Morgan Fisher's Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan-Fisher) compilation, contains a portion of every track recorded by Henry Cow assembled according to a strict mathematical system and lasting exactly one minute, collated at Pass, NYC and KUNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1980.
Track B7: recorded live at Rue Dunois, Paris in 1981 and at home in NYC.
Track B8: is from Elliott Sharp's State Of The Union compilation, recorded at home in NYC, 1982.
Track B9: is from a record-by-mail project with Steve Gore for the LP Ridin' On A Bummer, recorded at home, 1983.
Track B10: is from the Japanese compilation Sound Cosmodel, recorded at home, 1982.
Track B11: is from the Japanese compilation Welcome To Dreamland (Another Japan), a collage constructed out from the other songs on that record, mixed at Studio Dig, Tokyo, February 1985.

Speechless was first released by Ralph Records in 1981 (tracks A1 to B5 only).

Tracks are listed 1 to 19 on the inlay card.

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Made in Switzerland