Fred Frith discography

Fred Frith appears on over 400 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the "Discography of Fred Frith" by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier. [ cite web |url=http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm |title=Discography of Fred Frith |work=New York Downtown Scene and other miscellaneous discographies |last=Ramond, Michel; Roussel, Patrice; and Vuilleumier, Stephane |accessdate=2007-08-29 ]

Bands

;Henry Cow
*1973 "Leg End" aka "Legend" (LP Virgin Records, U.K.)
*1974 "Unrest" (LP Virgin Records, U.K.)
*1976 "Henry Cow Concerts" (2xLP Caroline Records, U.K.)
*1979 "Western Culture" (LP Broadcast, U.K.)
*2008 "Stockholm & Göteborg" (CD Recommended Records, U.K.)

;Henry Cow/Slapp Happy
*1975 "Desperate Straights" (LP Virgin Records, U.K.)
*1975 "In Praise of Learning" (LP Virgin Records, U.K.)

;Art Bears
*1978 "Hopes and Fears" (LP Recommended Records, U.K.)
*1979 "Winter Songs" (LP Recommended Records, U.K.)
*1981 "The World as It Is Today" (LP Recommended Records, U.K.)

;Aksak Maboul
*1980 "Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits" (LP Crammed Discs, Belgium)

;Material
*1981 "Memory Serves" (LP Celluloid Records, France)
*1982 "One Down" (LP Celluloid Records, France)
*1983 "Time Out" (LP Celluloid Records, France)
*1991 "Improvised Music New York" (CD Muworks Records, Japan)
*1994 "Live from Soundscape" (CD DIW, Japan)

;Massacre
*1981 "Killing Time" (LP Celluloid Records, France)
*1998 "Funny Valentine" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2001 "Meltdown" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2007 "Lonely Heart" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

;Skeleton Crew
*1984 "Learn to Talk" (LP Rift Records, U.S.)
*1986 "The Country of Blinds" (LP Rift Records, U.S.)
*2005 "Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds" (2xCD Fred Records, U.K.)

;Duck and Cover
*1985 "Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.2" (LP, Recommended Records U.K.)

;French Frith Kaiser Thompson
*1987 "Live, Love, Larf & Loaf" (LP Rhino, U.S.)
*1990 "Invisible Means" (LP Windham Hill, U.S.)

;Naked City
*1990 "Naked City" (LP Elektra/Nonesuch, U.S.)
*1990 "Torture Garden" (LP Elektra/Nonesuch, U.S.)
*1992 "Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles" (CD Avant, Japan)
*1992 "Grand Guignol" (CD Avant, Japan)
*1992 "Leng Tch'e" (CD Toys Factory, Japan)
*1993 "Radio" (CD Avant, Japan)
*1993 "Absinthe" (CD Avant, Japan)
*2002 "" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

;Death Ambient
*1995 "Death Ambient" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*1999 "Synaesthesia" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2007 "Drunken Forest" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

;Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
*1997 "Ayaya Moses" (CD Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
*1999 "Upbeat" (CD Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

;Maybe Monday
*1999 "Saturn's Finger" (CD Buzz-Records, Netherlands)
*2002 "Digital Wildlife" (CD Winter & Winter, Germany)
*2008 "Unsquare" (CD Intakt, Switzerland)

;Keep the Dog
*2003 "That House We Lived In" (2xCD Fred Records, U.K.)

olo

*1974 "Guitar Solos" (LP Caroline Records, U.K.)
*1980 "Gravity" (LP Ralph Records, U.S.)
*1981 "Speechless" (LP Ralph Records, U.S.)
*1982 "Live in Japan" (2xLP Recommended Records, Japan)
*1983 "Cheap at Half the Price" (LP Ralph Records, U.S.)
*1994 "Quartets" (CD RecRec Music, Switzerland)
*1997 "Eye to Ear" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*1999 "Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986-1996)" (CD I Dischi di Angelica, Italy)
*2001 "Clearing" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2002 "" (CD Fred Records, U.K.)
*2004 "Eye to Ear II" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2005 "Eleventh Hour" (2xCD Winter & Winter, Germany)
*2008 "To Sail, To Sail" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

Music for Dance

*1988 "The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre)" (2xLP RecRec Music, Switzerland)
*1996 "Allies (Music for Dance volume 2)" (CD RecRec Music, Switzerland)
*1997 "The Previous Evening (Music for Dance volume 4)" (CD Recommended Records, U.K.) ¹
*2002 "Accidental (Music for Dance volume 3)" (CD Fred Records, U.K.)
*2006 "The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance volume 5)" (CD Fred Records, U.K.)¹ "The Previous Evening" was designated "Music for Dance volume 4" after "Accidental" was released.

oundtracks

*1989 "The Top of His Head" – original soundtrack to the film "The Top of His Head" by Peter Mettler (LP Crammed Discs, Belgium)
*1990 "Step Across the Border" – original soundtrack to the film "Step Across the Border" by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel (2xLP RecRec Music, Switzerland)
*1995 "Middle of the Moment" – original soundtrack to the film "Middle of the Moment" by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel (CD RecRec Music, Switzerland)
*2003 "Rivers and Tides" – original soundtrack to the film "Rivers and Tides" by Thomas Riedelsheimer (CD Winter & Winter, Germany)

Composer only

*1998 "Pacifica" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2002 "Freedom in Fragments" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2006 "Impur" (CD Fred Records, U.K.)
*2008 "Back to Life" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

Collaborations

;With Henry Kaiser
*1979 "With Friends Like These" (LP Metalanguage, U.S.)
*1983 "Who Needs Enemies?" (LP Metalanguage, U.S.)
*1987 "With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?" (CD SST, U.S.) (single disc compilation drawn from above two releases)
*1999 "Friends And Enemies" (2xCD Cuneiform, U.S.) (complete versions of original Metalanguage recordings, plus additonal unreleased and live material)

;With The Residents
*1980 "The Commercial Album" (LP Ralph Records, U.S.)

;With Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton
*1982 "Voice of America" (LP Rift Records, U.S.)

;With Totsuzen Danball
*1982 "Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81" (CT Floor Records, Japan)

;With Chris Cutler
*1983 "Live in Prague and Washington" (LP Recommended Records, U.K.)
*1994 "Live in Trondheim, Berlin, Limoges" (CD Recommended Records, U.K.)
*2000 "2 Gentlemen in Verona" (CD Recommended Records, U.K.)
*2007 "The Stone: Issue Two" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

;With Lol Coxhill
*1983 "French Gigs" (LP AAA, France)

;With René Lussier
*1987 "Nous Autres" (LP Les Disques Victo, Canada)

;With Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd)
*1991 "Dropera" (LP RecRec Music, Switzerland)

;With Tim Hodgkinson
*1992 "Live Improvisations" (CD Woof Records, U.K.)

;With François-Michel Pesenti
*1993 "Helter Skelter" (CD RecRec Music, Switzerland)

;With Marc Ribot
*1994 "Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode" (CD Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)

;With John Zorn
*1995 "The Art of Memory" (CD Incus Records, U.K.)
*2004 "50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)
*2008 "The Art of Memory II" (CD Fred Records, U.K.)

;With Jean-Pierre Drouet
*1997 "En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers" (CD Transes Europeennes, France)

;With Tom Cora
*1997 "Etymology" (CD Rarefaction, U.S.)

;With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill Laswell
*1998 "Meridiem" (CD Materiali Sonori, Italy)

;With Ensemble Modern
*2000 "Traffic Continues" (CD Winter & Winter, Germany)

;With Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori
*2000 "Later ..." (CD Les Disques Victo, Canada)

;With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis
*2001 "I Dream of You Jumping" (CD Les Disques Victo, Canada)

;With Michel Wintsch, Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin
*2002 "Whisperings" (CD RecRec Music, Switzerland)

;With Anne Bourne and John Oswald
*2002 "Dearness" (CD Spool, Canada)

;With Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen
*2002 "All is Bright, But it is Not Day" (CD Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

;With Derek Bailey and Antoine Berthiaume
*2003 "Soshin" (CD Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

;With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel
*2003 "Tempted to Smile" (CD Spool, Canada)

;With Leslie Dalaba, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt
*2003 "Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt" (CD Accretions Records, U.S.)

;With Toychestra
*2004 "What Leave Behind" (CD S.K. Records, France)

;With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart
*2005 "The Compass, Log and Lead" (CD Intakt, Switzerland)

;With Anthony Braxton
*2006 "Duo (Victoriaville) 2005" (CD Les Disques Victo, Canada)

;With Janet Feder
*2006 "Ironic Universe" (CD+DVD Ad Hoc Records, U.S.)

;With Chris Brown
*2007 "Cutter Heads" (CD Intakt, Switzerland)

;With Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches Smith
*2007 "Reasons for Moving" (CD Not Two, U.S.)

;With Evelyn Glennie
*2007 "The Sugar Factory" (CD Tzadik Records, U.S.)

;With Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community)
*2008 "Drift" (CD Poise, Germany)

References

External links

* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography] .
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Fred+Frith Fred Frith at Discogs] .
* [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,430625,00.html Fred Frith at Artist Direct] .