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Clearing Customs 
Studio album by Fred Frith Released February 2011 Recorded November and December 2007, Germany Genre Jazz, free improvisation Length 67:50 Label Intakt (Switzerland) Fred Frith chronology Eye to Ear III
(2010)Clearing Customs
(2011)Clearing Customs is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith.[1] It is based on a week of recordings and performances in November and December 2007 at a New Jazz Meeting at SWR, a German radio station in southwest Germany. Two hour-long national broadcasts were made.[2] The album was released by Intakt Records in February 2011.
The music is based on a 75-minute composition by Frith, and improvised by all the performers.[1] It uses a "graphic structural model" that links "diverse types of musical events" on a time line.[3] Traditional jazz instruments were used, plus Asian guzheng and tablas, and electronics. Frith drew on English theatre maker Peter Brook's approach of bringing together performers from completely different cultural backgrounds.[3]
Contents
Track listing
All tracks composed by Frith.
- "Clearing Customs" – 67:50
Source:[4]
Personnel
- Fred Frith – guitar, home-made instruments
- Wu Fei – guzheng
- Anantha Krishnan – mridangam, tablas
- Marque Gilmore – drums, electronics
- Tilman Müller – trumpet
- Patrice Scanlon – electronics
- Daniela Cattivelli – electronics
Source:[1]
Sound and artwork
Recorded at SWR studio 1 in Baden-Baden, Germany on November 29, 2007, and in Saarbrücken, Germany on December 1, 2007.
- Wolfgang Bachner – recording engineer
- Alfred Habelitz – sound engineer
- Fred Frith – mixing, liner notes
- Manfred Seiler – mixing
- Manfred Seiler – mastering
- Reinhard Kager – liner notes
- Heike Liss – cover art
- Jonas Schoder – graphic design
Source:[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Clearing Customs". Intakt Records. http://www.intaktrec.ch/176-a.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- ^ "Fred Frith". Mills College. http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/mus/frith/frith_cv.php. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- ^ a b Kager, Reinhard. Clearing Customs liner notes.
- ^ "Clearing Customs". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/Fred-Frith-Clearing-Customs/release/2724792. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
External links
External images
SWR New Jazz Meeting, November 2007
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