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	E.J.N. - FRED FRITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fred Frith was born in 1949 and raised in Yorkshire, England in a household where music was considered an essential part of everyday life.
		Frith can also be heard in duos with John Zorn, Hans Reichel, Tim Hodgkinson and Tenko on an intermittent but continuing basis.
		Much in demand as an instrumentalist, Frith has played on dozens of albums of all descriptions, tours regularly in a variety of contexts and is currently the bass player in John Zorn’s Naked City.
	www.ejn.it /mus/frith.htm (459 words)

	Massacre (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the experimental New York band of the 1980s, consisting of Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Fred Maher, see Massacre (Fred Frith band).
		The band released their debut album From Beyond in 1989 followed by an EP 2 years later (featuring Cronos of Venom).
		Lee and Rozz reformed the band in 1996 and released a new album Promise which was very badly received.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massacre_(band) (175 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Fred Frith
		If Fred Frith were remembered only for being the guitarist in Henry Cow he would be just another shadowy figure in the history of art-rock.
		Frith's bass, guitar and violin are prominent, yet merged into a whole that is stronger than its dovetailed parts, all held together by ingenuity and force of will.
		Frith alternated conventional and homemade guitars, six-string bass, violin and keyboards while occasionally singing in a high-pitched voice.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=fred_frith (727 words)

	sfbg.com
		Frith arrived at this variegated artistic state by way of formal violin training as a child, singing in the choir at church, self-initiated piano studies, and a deep immersion in blues, folk, and rock as a teenage guitarist.
		However, even when those bands were extending the boundaries of songwriting, cross-genre experimentation, tape manipulation, and improvisation in rock, Frith was challenging himself on new frontiers.
		Listening to Frith's recent recordings and compositions, dirt appears to be just one essential aspect of his broader concern – as a composer and a performer – with texture.
	www.sfbg.com /36/32/art_music_groundzero.html (2127 words)

	Browse by Artist: FRITH, FRED
		The compositions were culled from all periods of Fred's career, and the idea was to re-make them with a wild, inspirational and improvising aesthetic.
		Here they give a dynamic reading of Fred Frith's major composition Freedom in Fragments, which was written expressly for them and comprises a series of short compositions that can be played in whole or in part and in any given sequence.
		"Fred Frith is one of the world's greatest originals on the guitar, a composer/performer who has been at the forefront of avant garde music since the early '70s.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/frith.fred.html (1980 words)

	Fred Frith
		Frith was playing "table-top guitar." At one point he covered the guitar with layer after layer of cloths, and then began to strike the hidden guitar with mallets.
		Frith's exploration of the ``table-top guitar'' and his use of household objects upon the guitar have permeated the music of creative guitarists all over the world to the point that it's unusual to see an improvising guitarist who doesn't at some point begin hammering upon the strings with an electric screwdriver or egg-beater!
		Fred Frith's music touches some place very deep, and never fails to stir both the heart and the imagination of the listener.
	www.plonsey.com /beanbenders/FredFrith.html (1054 words)

	Massacre (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word massacre, from the Old French macecre, usually means the indiscriminate and deliberate killing of large numbers of people.
		For the American Death metal band, see Massacre (band).
		For the experimental New York band, see Massacre (Fred Frith band).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massacre_(disambiguation) (179 words)

	The Mountain Times Online
		For those music lovers unfamiliar with Frith’s prodigious output, he is an accomplished guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer who has been influencing musical culture from the fringes for over three decades.
		Frith recorded the bulk of Cheap at Half the Price at home during the summer of 1983 on a primitive (by today’s standards) 4-track tape recorder.
		Frith was recently the subject of an award-winning documentary film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels called Step Across the Border.
	www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2004/1230/fredfirth.php3 (776 words)

	Fred Frith: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Co-founder of the underground British band Henry Cow in 1968, composer/improviser/guitarist Frith moved to the U.S. in the late '70s, where he began associations with such New York-based experimental musicians as cellist Tom Cora, harpist Zeena Parkins, saxophonist John Zorn, and percussionist Ikue Mori.
		Frith lived in New York for 14 years; some of his well-known ventures in that time included Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Cora and Parkins), and his sextet Keep the Dog.
		Frith was the subject of Step Across the Border, a documentary film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels.
	www.music.com /person/fred_frith/1 (353 words)

	Polestar Music Gallery: Fred Frith
		Frith, who is among a handful of players who changed guitar improvising forever, has never performed solo in Seattle.
		As important a figure as any in the expansion of rock into jazz and improvised music, the English guitarist co-founded the British avant-rock band Henry Cow (1968-78), and then on migrating to the U.S. moved to the center of improvising and experimental composition in New York.
		There he formed the take-no-prisoners noise juggernaut Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher; Skeleton Crew with cellist Tom Cora and electric harpist Zeena Parkins; Keep the Dog, a sextet devoted to playing his own vast repertoire of compositions; and a Guitar Quartet.
	www.seattleimprovisedmusic.com /Polestar/Archive/Shows2003/pole1114-1503.html (605 words)

	fred frith....jazz guitar???? - Jazz Bulletin Board
		When I was in high school, I saw Frith a lot around town as he was living in New York at the time and I saw him in many settings, mostly solo but also with John Greaves and Peter Blevgad (actually that was kind of jazzy as well) and Massacre.
		Frith was a wonder - at this stage of his career he mixed his avant-guardisms with a delicious melodicism and snakey style that was not that far from Robert Fripp or Steve Hackett.
		Frith is credited in the first Material album (Memory Serves) and is also the bass player of Zorn's Naked City (at least in the Nonesuch album I have), which confirms the comment about the "downtown vibe" from above.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?t=11502 (1556 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock FM-FY
		Band is centered on the soaring English vocals of A.T. (he, like many Dutch, has almost no trace of an accent in English) and the tight, economical keyboard playing of Peter De Jong.
		The band's tour de force in the early days, was a "metalized" rendition of Peter Gabriel's "On The Air" which was a crowd pleaser and earned them an encore at their Marquee debut.
		All in all, the band produced three cassette EP's: Fate Not Choice (1988), Surface Tension (1989) for which they are best known; the title song (an Anthrax meets Rush hymn to the powers of deception) became their signature track, Deus Ex Machina (1990) and finally the full length album Thrown (1991).
	www.gepr.net /fm.html (15436 words)

	r o v a : Larry's Side Projects - Maybe Monday
		Fred Frith, composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, has been a fixture for more than twenty-five years in the area where rock music and new music meet.
		Co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-78), he moved to New York in the late seventies and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he’s since been associated, including, for example, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag.
		Frith is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels’ award-winning documentary film Step Across the Border.
	www.rova.org /players/larry_maybe_monday_old1.html (592 words)

	Fred Frith / Ensemble Modern: Traffic Continues - PopMatters Music Review
		Both pieces were written by composer/guitarist Fred Frith, and performed by Frith and the German New Music group Ensemble Modern.
		While Frith is fairly well-known for is work with the group Henry Cow, and with the likes of saxophonist John Zorn (Naked City Band), bassist Bill Laswell (Massacre), and perhaps the all-time super-group for music nerds, French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson, Frankfurt-based Ensemble Modern may need a bit of an introduction.
		Rather than something tawdry or sickly nostalgic, what Frith and his musicians manage to do here is pay an interesting tribute to a musician who made a career out of playing progressive, experimental music and engaging in precisely the kind of new enterprise that is being actualized here.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/frithfred-traffic.shtml (860 words)

	Hello Music! the fanlisting for Fred Frith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fred Frith was born in Heathfield, England on February 17, 1949.
		A forming member of the band Henry Cow (and later, Art Bears), Frith is an amazing guitarist as well as an accomplished violin player.
		Frith now resides in Oakland, California with his wife where he teaches composition at Mills College.
	fan.500ml.org /frith/about.php (191 words)

	CD Review of Fred Frith - Speechless on Fred Records/ReR Megacorp @ jazzreview.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He seemingly defies musical boundaries and categorizations, which is an element surrounding this important re-release on the artist’s record label.
		Frith’s anti-pop/rock musings boasts an organic tinge, along with saxophonist George Cartwright and the “Massacre” band, featuring bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher, among others.
		Ultimately, Frith shines as a multitasking instrumentalist by using his guitars; keys and violin as vehicles for twisting catchy melodic hooks into avant based foundations.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=5648 (245 words)

	DISCOGRAPHY OF FRED FRITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Malcolm Humes, for his Fred Frith discography on which most of the initial version of this one was based.
		Fred Frith plays on two tracks, one with Robert Wyatt: 2/ I'm A Believer and one with Henry Cow: 5/ Teenbeat Reprise 1975 - Virgin (Japan), Y-96 (promo LP) See I'M A BELIEVER (1974) for further references on (2) and LEGEND (1973) for (5).
		Fred Frith plays on one track in duo with Tina Curran: 32/ I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is (Frith, Curran) 1:05 Recorded at home in New York in 1982 Fred Frith: drill, drum; Tina Curran: voice.
	home.arcor.de /nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm (5220 words)

	BBC - Experimental Review - Fred Frith, Speechless
		Speechless was Fred Frith's second album for the San Franciscan Ralph label, and was originally issued in 1981.
		Frith piles up layers of sharp, melodic guitars, woozy mellotrons or mournfully folky violins, with reults that range from the infectiously melodic to the fearsomely dense.
		At this point Frith was resident in New York, and had been nursing a more agressive, pared-down guitar style with the likes of Bill Laswell's Material and the superb power trio Massacre (also featuring Laswell and drummer Fred Maher).
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/experimental/reviews/frithfred_speechless.shtml (640 words)

	Speechless by Fred Frith CD
		British guitarist and composer Fred Frith released a pair of albums at the beginning of the '80s--GRAVITY was the first, and SPEECHLESS was its successor.
		Frith plays with a number of different ensembles (including Massacre and the French Etron Fou Leloublan), on an album that recalls material that he recorded in his previous bands, Henry Cow and The Art Bears.
		The songs feature Frith's guitar and violin work and are textured by more saxophones than any of his previous material--a few numbers utilize a trio of reeds.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6145095/a/Speechless.htm (309 words)

	FRED FRITH . COM
		Projects in the works include a new piece for William Winant and Joan Jeanrenaud to be premiered in March; a new piece for classical guitar quartet for the Corona Quartet in Denmark; and a clarinet solo for Ben Goldberg.
		Meanwhile Fred will perform at the Other Minds Festival in February and San Francisco Jazz Festival in March, and the date calendar is filling up for the summer of 2005 - see updated schedule page for details.
		Writers and poets: The FRED list was created so that anyone interested in Fred and his many projects could come together and exchange thoughts and ideas about the man and his music...
	www.fredfrith.com (333 words)

	DISCOGRAPHY OF FRED FRITH
		Fred Frith plays on one track in duo with Tina Curran: 32/ I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is Recorded at home in New York in 1982 Fred Frith: drill, drum; Tina Curran: voice.
		Fred Frith plays on two tracks with the David Moss Dense Band: 3/ Goliath (Moss) 4:35 4/ Marclay's Dance (Moss) 5:55 Recorded live at Moers Festival, Germany on May 26, 1985 David Moss: vocal, percussion; Tenko: vocal, guitar; Jon Rose: violin, cel- lo; Wayne Horvitz: keyboards; Fred Frith: bass; Christian Marclay: turnta- bles.
		Fred Frith plays on four tracks: 3/ no title 8:15 Recorded during the Stephanie and Irving Stone Festival of Improvisors at the Roulette, N.Y.C. on November 8, 9 and 10 1985 Lindsay Cooper: electric bassoon, sax; Fred Frith: electric guitar, home- made electric strings; Irene Schweizer: piano.
	www.wnur.org /jazz/artists/frith.fred/discog.html (4897 words)

	Roskilde Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is a meeting with one of rock history’s cult bands.
		They made their debut back in 1981 and the band consists of Bill Laswell (bass), Charles Hayward (drums) and guitar-wonder Fred Frith.
		Expect virtuoso guitar, the heavy pulsating bass - Laswell’s trade mark and a performance where many years of playing together is to result in a concert that will be one of the greatest in the history of the festival.
	www.roskilde-festival.dk /object.php?obj=a2000c&base=206d2e7e&Letter=alle (145 words)

	Fred Frith: Squidco
		Fred Frith, composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, has situated himself for more than thirty years in the intersection of rock and new music.
		Fred's first collection of songs since Cheap at Half the Price, this collects works from rare compilations and an extended dance work, all featuring Fred's vocal talents and his usual far-ranging approach.
		This first volume is a beautifully recorded document of the band early on, performing live at the club that served as home base from their very first concert series in 1988 to their very last in 1993.
	www.squidco.com /c.cgi?c=FRITH (4288 words)

	BBC - Experimental Review - Fred Frith, Gravity
		Recorded in 1979, Fred Frith's first solo album proper after the demise of Henry Cow probably came as a bit of a shock to die hard fans.
		Gravity however, was Fred's dance record; not the fashionable mutant disco of the early downtown New York scene (where Frith was in the process of setting up stall) but a celebration of rhythm that borrows from folk music, rock and God knows what else.
		Likewise Fred's gleeful de/reconstruction of Martha and the Vandellas "Dancing in the Street"; a bizzarely harmonised guitar negotiates the melody over a boiling mass of feedback and tape manipulation (including a recording of Iranian demonstrators celebrating the capture of American hostages), eventually settling into a spare, gorgeous guitar solo over the closing chords.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/experimental/reviews/frithfred_gravity.shtml (696 words)

	Frith Interview 1998
		The concerts were all recorded, but Frith wouldn't be drawn on whether he was planning to release them (though a similar duo last year with Jean-Pierre Drouet did come out).
		Frith: No. With improvising, a rehearsal is all you've done in your life up to date.
		I recently came across an interview Bill Laswell gave back in 1981 to Downbeat magazine, and one of the questions was: "Who are your favourite employers?" and he replied: "Fred Frith and Brian Eno because of the freedom they give me." From my point of view, with Eno that was certainly the case.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/interviews/frith.html (3607 words)

	The History of Rock Music - The Eighties
		Their heirs during the years of the new wave were the Muffins (2), the premiere progressive-rock band of their time, led by keyboardist and composer Dave Newhouse and based in the Washington area.
		Fred Frith's Rift and Steve Feigenbaum's Cuneiform were the labels that helped the genre resurrect.
		The "band" was an open ensemble, anchored to the pillars of guitarist Ed Wynne, keyboardist Joie Hinton, drummer Merv Pepler, flutist John Egan, percussionist Paul Hankin.
	www.scaruffi.com /history/cpt412.html (3272 words)

	Ectophiles' Guide - Percy Howard, Charles Hayward, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		highly rhythmic (but is that a surprise given the presence of bill laswell and charles hayward), its swells are peppered with the atmospheric guitarwork of fred frith.
		He leads the band nús and is a feature writer who has had a number of articles which appeared in mondo 2000.
		Fred Frith was a founding member of Henry Cow who, after moving to New York City in the 1970s, became involved with the same group of musicians as Bill Laswell.
	ectoguide.org /alpha/h/howard.percy&p=2 (345 words)

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