Impur (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Impur
Type = Studio album
Artist = Fred Frith


Background = orange
Released = 2006
Recorded = 1996
Genre = Chamber music,
Experimental rock,
Free improvisation
Length = 54:56
Label = Fred (UK)
Producer = Fred Frith
Reviews =
*Piero Scaruffi (7/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/frith.html link] | Last album = "Eleventh Hour"
(2005)
This album = "Impur"
(2006)
Next album = "The Happy End Problem"
(2006)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Fred Records
Type = Studio
Last album = "Killing Time"
(2005)
Massacre
(RēR/FRO 10)
This album = "Impur"
(2006)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRFC 01)
Next album = "The Happy End Problem"
(2006)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRA 05)

"Impur" is an album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was composed in 1996 by Frith "for 100 musicians, large building and mobile audience" [ cite web |url=http://www.fredfrith.com/notes.htm |title=Fred Frith compositions |work=Fred Frith homepage |first=Fred |last=Frith |accessdate=2007-03-06 ] and was performed on 30 May 1996 by students and teachers from L’Ecole Nationale de Musique, Villeurbanne, France. Frith directed the performance but did perform himself.

Background

Between 1994 and 1996, Frith was Composer-in-Residence at L’Ecole Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne, France. At the end of the two year residency, Frith organised a musical event at the school involving as many students as possible. He grouped them according to their music disciplines and placed them in all the rooms of a music building. Each group of musicians then played music Frith had prepared for them or, when required, improvised. Using synchronized stopwatches, all the groups, who could not hear each other, played strictly according to a 55-minute time-score that Frith had written. During the concert the public was invited to wander from room to room, or sit in the courtyard and listen to the sounds from the open windows. The whole performance was recorded on four ADAT recorders and later mixed. [ Frith, Fred. "Impur" (Fred Records, 2006). CD booklet. ]

Downtown Music Gallery wrote of this album: [ cite web |url=http://downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/news/Newsletter-2007-01-26.html |title=Newsletter January 26th, 2007 |work=Downtown Music Gallery |first=Bruce Lee |last=Gallanter |accessdate=2007-03-06 ]

Track listing

#"Impur" (Frith) – 54:56

Personnel

Directors

*Fred Frith – Chamber Orchestra section
*Sophie Dufeutrelle – Flutes section
*Catherine Guinamard – Recorders section
*Pascal Pariaud – Clarinets section
*Nasser Saïdani – African Percussion section
*David Wood – Ensemble Hétéroclite

Performers

*Samuel Chagnard – Soprano Saxophone, bass clarinet
*Alain Chaléard – Tabla
*Patrick Charbonnier – Trombone
*Laurent Frick – Trumpet
*Bader Gharzouli – Electric guitar
*Stephane Grosjean – Percussion
*Joël Jorda – Clarinet
*Ghilem Lacroux – Electric guitar
*Stéphane Lambert – Alto saxophone
*Gilles Laval – Electric guitar
*Catherine Leuchter – Recorder
*Laure Michel – Recorder
*Claire Mollard – Percussion
*Guillaume Quemener – Electric guitar
*Franklin Riboud – Electric guitar
*Fatiha Semaïl – Recorder
*Laurent Vichard – Clarinet

Engineers

*Myles Boisen – Mastering
*Peter Hardt – Mixing
*Emmanuel Gilot – Recording
*Laurent Luci – Recording assistant

References

External links

*amg | id = 10:36n20roa348v | label = "Impur"
*Discogs release | name = Impur | id = 1004049
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]