Prints

Prints Artist: Fred Frith
Label: Fred Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 752725900324
EAN: 0752725900324
ASIN: B00007J36Y


Release Date: 2003-03-18

Prints


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Tracks:

  1. Trains & Boats & Planes
  2. Stones
  3. Fingerprints
  4. Life Of A Detective
  5. The Ballad Of Melody Nelson
  6. Trocosi
  7. Reduce Me
  8. Levity
  9. True Love
  10. I Want It To Be Over
  11. Spot
  12. In The Winter Of '64

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best since "Gravity".......2005-01-26

I've followed Fred Frith's career for some time, now. A highlight was seeing him do a table-top "solo guitar" performance which climaxed with him kicking the table over, the contents of which scattered at my feet. I stooped to pick them up and Fred hurredly came over, "no, no, I'll get it". He was a quiet and intense man who kept to the shadows the rest of the night. English reserve, I suppose.
I've always held his avant garde works in the highest of regards, but have secretly harboured a desire for him to tread more palatable waters. Enter "Prints", a vocal-oriented release, which just may be his finest "commercial" work since "Gravity". That is to say that there is plenty of musical styles and genres to chomp on here.
From the techno-thrust of "Reduce Me" to the blues-y heavy metal stylings of "Stones" (air-guitar, anyone?), Fred runs the usual Frith-gamut, but with tons of wit, spunk and verve. There is even a French chanson, "Ballad of Melody Nelson", which Fred, always the notable French speaker, pulls off with unusual aplomb. And speaking of vocals, I find Fred's voice becoming more pronounced and personal as the years progress. He just may be a singer, after all.
Towards the end of the CD, darkness creeps in. There is a harrowing one-two punch of "True Love" and "I Want it to Be Over", in which Fred, after having a terrible row with his live-in, can only declare "I want it to be over". Add to that, healthy doses of Fred's giddy violin playing. Like I said, it's a delectable hodge-podge which oftentimes seems surreal, but that is the point.

Music Album:

  1. I Found Out ~ Electric Flag
  2. Make Believe ~ Make Believe
  3. Chart Toppers: Rock Hits of the 80's ~ Various Artists
  4. Fellow Hoodlums ~ Deacon Blue
  5. Jugo de Exitos ~ Thalia
  6. Shame Shame ~ Magic Lanterns
  7. Press to Play ~ Paul McCartney
  8. Hollywood Goes Wild! ~ Various Artists
  9. White Hot Odyssey ~ White Hot Odyssey
  10. The Decline of British Sea Power ~ British Sea Power

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Summertime ~ Paul Desmond

Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) ~ Cecil Taylor

Sing The Songs Sinatra Sang (Karaoke) ~ Karaoke

Love's Finally Found Me ~ Stanley Turrentine, Gloria Lynne

Lola ~ Zbigniew Namyslowski

I Belong 2 U ~ Norm

100% Afrique ~ Various Artists

Candombe System ~ Anthonio

Beginnings ~ Los Chalchaleros

Best by Far ~ Omar