972 - Art Bears "Live 19 mai 2008", le punk-rock brechtien est bien vivant !

Fred Frith (guitar, bass, piano, violin)
Chris Cutler (drums)
Zeena Parkins (piano, organ, accordian, voice)
Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice)
Jewlia Eisenberg (voice, bass)
Kristin Slipp (voice)

01. Intro 1:02
02. Joan 4:40
03. First Things First 5:02
04. The Summer Wheel 3:08
05. The Slave 5:06
06. The Hermit 3:34
07. Rats and Monkeys 4:09
08. The Skeleton 3:26
09. The Winter Wheel 2:51
10. Man And Boy 5:47
11. Three Wheels 5:21
12. The Song Of Investment Capital Overseas 2:58
13. Truth 2:41
14. Law 0:53
15. The Song Of The Monopolists 2:14
16. Freedom 3:12
17. Albion, Awake! (unrecorded version w/lyrics) 1:38
18. The Dance 5:51
19. Presentation & encore 2:15
20. All Hail 4:58
21. Joan encore 3:45

961 - Carla Kilhstedt & Satoko Fujii "Minamo"

1 Remembering Backwards
2 One Hundred and Sixty Billion Spray
3 Lychnis
4 Remainder of one, Reminder of Two

For those listeners who enjoy free, truly spontaneous improvisation and the combination of violin and piano, Minamo with violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist Satoko Fujii cannot be recommended highly enough.

Featuring two live recordings from performances at Rova Saxophone Quartet's 25th Anniversary Festival in San Francisco in 2002 and the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels Austria in 2005, this exhilarating record demonstrates the highest levels of musical interaction.

Kihlstedt is known mainly for her work in the avant-garde group Tin Hat and the art-rock group Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Fujii is an icon in the avant-garde world, working in many configurations and instrumentations from duo to big band.

The two players met for the first time at the San Francisco festival and the degree of communication verges on the unbelievable. Both players described the experience in almost mystical terms, especially Kihlstedt:

"The very first time we played together we found an inexplicably mutual language that has, since then, been an amazing fertile playground for us. We always seem to arrive at places that neither of us could possibly find on our own. It's one of those rare and exciting moments in which I don't feel like we're improvising so much as we're uncovering whole fields of lost artifacts."

The results of these feelings are directly audible, as the two women play in a white heat of passion. Minamo is much hotter than the very fine record Heart Mountain by violinist Tanya Kalmanovich and pianist Myra Melford, making the latter seem sedate by comparison. This, of course, does not mean better, but just that this live meeting crackles with enormous energy and faster musical reflexes.

Fujii and Kihlstedt listen very closely to each other and respond to each other's gestures, shifting from lead to accompaniment effortlessly. Development happens organically and with such an extremely natural feeling that at times the music sounds composed.

Part of the joy of listening to Minamo are the many different sounds and textures created both individually and together. While the music can get quite dense at times, there are many other instances of beauty. Excitement is never far away as the smallest seed is seized upon and then expanded—this is what makes the record wonderful.

The last track, "Remainder of one, Reminder of two" is over twenty-six minutes without one second of flab or diminished concentration, and thus the music is easy to follow. Listening thus becomes for the listener the same journey that Kihlstedt and Fujii took on stage.

Minamo is a triumph.

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Mise à jour 19 aout (après le message de murder)

958 - Carla Kihlstedt "Singles & Insanities"

Chansons et ????

511 - Cosa Brava : Fred Frith / Zeena Parkins / Carla Kihlstedt / Matthias Bossi / Norman Teale

Photo : Markus Lackinger

Fred Frith, guitar, bass, electronics & voice.
Zeena Parkins, synthesizer & accordion
Carla Kihlstedt, violin, electronics & voice.
Matthias Bossi, drums, percussion & voice.
Norman Teale, sound engineer

LIVE BARCELONE
14 avril 2008

Encore un exemple de ce mouvement permanent de Fred Frith qui le mène de projets en projets, tous plus passionnants les uns que les autres.

Il approche des genres musicaux tellement différents qu'il est en train de créer à lui tout seul un genre musical unique & universel.

Cela fait plus de 30 ans qu'il nous surprend, nous enchante, nous emmène là où personne ne l'attend, nous quitte, reprend la route, s'éloigne pour mieux revenir, nous déroute.

Voilà, Fred Frith nous déroute pour notre plus grand bonheur.

Ce concert à Barcelone en avril dernier témoigne de cette soif inextinguible de créer, composer, jouer, improviser, accompagné par la fine fleur des musiciennEs qui empruntent ces chemins vierges chers aux passantEs.

En plus, dédier le deuxième titre à .... Albert Marcoeur fait très chaud au coeur du passant.

A ma connaissance, il n'y a pas d'enregistrement officiel de ce concert, ni d'aucun autre du quartet "Cosa Brava" en concert.
Raison de plus pour y aller.

Le site de Fred Frith
Le MySpace de Cosa Brava
Fred Frith chez Orkhêstra International

Pour mieux découvrir l'univers global de Fred Frith, procurez-vous l'immense "Step Across the Border" (1990), un documentaire qui lui est consacré.

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305 - des musiques & de cordes

Fred Frith, acoustic guitar, lowry organ, violin
Stevie Wishart, hurdy-gurdy, electronics, violin
Carla Kihlstedt, violin, nyckelharpa, cover art

1. Time comes presto (03.14)
2. A beautiful thing to forget (04.50)
3. Look at sky go (03.39)
4. Dog-eared (02.04)
5. I am Buffalo Bill today (04.12)
6. Initially this (02.38)
7. Postcard from the back (03.55)
8. I am map (03.31)
9. Abstract expressionism (05.16)
10. Dream as a means (03.15)
11. Aller retour (04.13)

12. Time goes largo (02.45)

Un alboume d’improvisation, dosé, méticuleux et terriblement attachant, car il nous lie au monde et aux sons des humains.
Les instruments de cordes boisés (guitare, violon, vielle,…) s’attachent à de l’électronique, sans que jamais cette fusion ne ressemble à un mélange précaire.
Et ainsi, ces 3 musiciens, dont 2 femmes, parcourent le monde entier. Mais est-ce étrange, que de voyager ainsi ? Il reste encore heureusement des défricheurs.

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