Eye to Ear

Infobox Album
Name = Eye to Ear
Type = Studio album
Artist = Fred Frith


Background = orange
Released = 1997
Recorded = Germany, 1992 and 1995
United States, 1994–1995
Genre = Experimental rock
Length = 55:42
Label = Tzadik (US)
Producer = Fred Frith
Reviews =
*"Allmusic" Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:110e4j272wa4 link]
*Piero Scaruffi (5/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/frith.html link] | Last album = "Allies"
(1996)
This album = "Eye to Ear"
(1997)
Next album = "The Previous Evening"
(1997)

"Eye to Ear" is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is a collection of film and theatre music composed and performed by Frith, and was recorded in Germany and the United States between 1992 and 1995. "Eye to Ear" was Frith's first solo album to be released on John Zorn's Tzadik label.

A second collection of film and theatre music by Frith, "Eye to Ear II" was released by Tzadik Records in 2004.

Track listing

#"Le Rencontre (Title Theme)" (Frith) – 4:11
#"Backroom" (Frith) – 3:22
#"Thea und Nat" (Frith) – 12:22
##"Welcome Home"
##"Suspicion Theme (for Bernard Herrmann)"
##"Thea's Theme"
##"Suspicion Theme II"
##"Not Drowning But Waving"
#"Backroom II" (Frith) – 5:30
#"Picture of Light" (Frith) – 9:47
#"Ostkreuz" (Frith) – 6:00
##"Frozen Landscape"
##"Dragging Half a Pig"
##"Driving to Grandma's"
##"In the Abandoned Building"
#"Before Sunrise – In the Train" (Frith) – 2:47
#"Backroom III" (Frith) – 8:07
#"Le Rencontre (Reprise)" (Frith) – 3:36

Personnel

*Fred Frith – all instruments (except those listed below), tape manipulations
*Michaela Dietl – accordion (3,6)
*Tilmann Müller – trumpet (3,6)
*Christian Kaya – clarinet (3)
*Boris Denker – tenor saxophone (1,9)
*Willy Webster – organ (2,4,7)

ound

*Tracks 1, 3, 6 and 9 recorded by Beno Gordon at Sound Fabrik, Munich, Germany, 1992
*Tracks 2, 4, 5 and 7 recorded by Olivier Dicicco at Mobius Studio, San Francisco, United States, 1994–1995
*Track 8 recorded by Peter Hardt at Jankowski Studio, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995

External links

*amg | id = 10:110e4j272wa4 | label = Eye to Ear
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/683778 Discogs] . "Eye to Ear".
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]