Hopes and Fears is the debut album by the English avant-rock group Art Bears. It comprises tracks by Henry Cow, Art Bears's predecessor... in January 1978, and tracks by Art Bears... in March 1978.

...It also shows Frith experimenting with eastern European folk music on "Moeris, Dancing",[6] which he explored further on some of his subsequent solo albums, particularly Gravity (1980) and Speechless (1981).

Stewart Mason wrote at AllMusic that the album's longest track, "In Two Minds" is the closest Art Bears came to playing "conventional rock music". When Cutler was asked in an interview in 2004 whether the song was a "homage" to the Who, he replied, "It would be hard to deny the connection. It is so obviously a reference. I was certainly directly influenced in my youth by The Who – and in particular by Keith Moon." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-yz4q7OXEE&list=RD0-yz4q7OXEE&start_radio=1

#ArtBears #HenryCow #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #DagmarKrause #RIO #Music #AvantRock #PostPunk #LindsayCooper

Fred Frith from Frelonia @ Pilar / 2025
#fredfrith #guitarist #frelonia
#pilar #brussels #soundinmotion
#photography #blackandwhite #concertphotography

AQSAK MABOUL
Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits
1980 Belgium pressing

Definitely one of the strangest records in my library, and one that’s certainly not for the average general music listener.

The personnel here features a healthy portion of the “Art Bears” crowd; Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, and Marc Hollander.

This is some demented and deeply experimental art rock; wide ranging in its vibe from classical, to Zappa, to French pop.
I’m happy to have an original press of this, as those who are familiar with it and love it had been clammering for a reissue of it for years, until Crammed Discs did one in 2018.

If you’re into weird shit, you’ll love it.

If you’re not, it’s going to be very difficult making it through to the second song.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #artrock #experimental #artrock #artbears #FredFrith #1980s #80s #80sMusic #artrock #aqsakmaboul

“[W]hat’s always fascinating is that sometimes you think you know what something sounds like and do the thing that produces the sound you think you will get, and then you don’t get it. There are always variabilities, variations, and things you didn’t expect… They always lead you to explore something differently. I think the joy is in the fact that even though my vocabulary is relatively static, what happens, without fail, always brings me to places I haven’t been before. I don’t know why, but it happens. I think it has to do with having an understanding that when something unexpected happens, you can make it into something interesting.”- Fred Frith

https://postgenre.org/normal-fred-frith-i/

#fredfrith #guitar #sologuitar #roulette #improvisedmusic #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #preparedguitar #guitarsolos #henrycow #rock #nakedcity #interview #rouletteintermedium

An absolutely amazing and intense set of performances tonight from Fred Frith in Glasgow, solo and in combination with 17 (I think!) members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. What a privilege to be there to bear witness to their collective wonders.

#FredFrith #GlasgowImprovisersOrchestra #ImprovisedMusic #Improvisation @improvisedmusic

Gravity is a 1980 solo album by English guitarist and composer Fred Frith. It was Frith's second solo album, and his first since Henry Cow disbanded in 1978...Gravity has been described as an avant-garde "dance" record that draws on rhythm and dance from folk music across the world.

Gravity ...featured Frith backed by Swedish Rock in Opposition group Samla Mammas Manna on the first side of the LP and by American progressive rock group the Muffins on the second side. Additional musicians included Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and...Chris Cutler.

In a 1980 review in Sounds magazine, John Gill described Gravity as an album of "wonderfully stateless music", a blend of jazz, rock'n'roll, chamber, European ethnic, and New York City soul and Hispanic. With a reference to Frith's former bands, Henry Cow and Art Bears, Gill added "[a]nd this time, folks, you can dance to it!" -Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMTTr3CpyM

#fredfrith #henrycow #SamlaMammasManna #themuffins #ralphrecords

🕸glané sur le net🕸 Keiji Haino, Fred Frith et Tom Malmendier : musiques sans frontières: Keiji Haino, Fred Frith et Tom Malmendier : musiques sans frontières. Entretien avec le cofondateur de l'association Fragment à Metz.… #KeijiHaino #FredFrith #TomMalmendier #MusiqueSansFrontières #ConcertMetz

Keiji Haino, Fred Frith et Tom...

Fred Frith @ Les Ateliers Claus - Brussels, Belgium - 20 Nov 2018
#fredfrith #guitarist
#lesateliersclaus #brussels
#photography #blackandwhite #concertphotography

Historia de la música electrónica popular: 1977: Antes y después de la ciencia de Brian Eno https://historiadelamusicaelectronicapopular.blogspot.com/2024/11/1977-antes-y-despues-de-la-ciencia-de.html #BrianEno #PhilCollins #PhilManzanera #RobertFripp #RobertWyatt #FredFrith Before and After Science - 1977

The recent @grahamdunning #FredFrith post reminded me of the Touch the Sound film that I must rewatch soon #EvelynGlennie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrY64E2PEY

My favorite pop concerts, my favorite Grateful Dead concert, my favorite recent jazz concert, and the best band I’ve ever seen. #111Words #Music #LiveMusic #Concerts #Pop #Jazz #TheGratefulDead #TalkingHeads #LeonardCohen #TaylorSwift #JasonMoran #NakedCity #JohnZorn #WayneHorvitz #BillFrisell #FredFrith #JoeyBaron https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/09/my-favorite-pop-concerts-my-favorite.html

Naked City
N.Y. Flat Top Box

https://youtu.be/-vnCSw8YzNI

#NowPlaying #NakedCity #BillFrisell #JohnZorn #FredFrith #JoeyBaron #YEye

New #review today: "Singer #PercyHoward first came to my attention with the #Meridiem album back in the late 90s. I picked up the album because of the other musicians involved — #FredFrith, #Bil Laswell, and #CharlesHayward, all of whom I knew from previous work — but Howard was an unknown quantity at the time. Many years have passed since then, but I remember being intrigued by Howard’s singing..." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #ArtRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/percy-howard-the-stars-and-the-well-2.html

I find myself turning more and more to the music and ideas of Henry Cow these days, not to mention those of the myriad spheres and satellites orbiting their sun-gone-supernova. Hard to believe their remarkable first LP was released 50 years ago this month.

#HenryCow #AvantRock #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #TimHodgkinson #DagmarKrause #RockIsForEveryone

Est-ce que quelqu'un a les mp3 du disque Clearing de Fred Frith ?
Je les cherche partout et je les trouve paaaas...
#FredFrith

Edit : c'est bon j'ai trouvé !!!

I'm getting so much out of this new(ish) release by Fred Frith—Atmospheres: Music for Three Films—a download-only release from July 2023. I've seen none of the three films, but the music is just beautiful: abstract in places, inventively and achingly melodic in others, like the best of Frith's work. Highly recommended.

#FredFrith #Bandcamp #MusicForFilm

https://fredfrith1.bandcamp.com/album/atmospheres-music-for-three-films

TRUE LOVE

You broke the glasses
You broke the plates
You said "I don't want your money!"
You said "I don't want your money! Get outta here!"
You smashed your face against the wall
You smashed your face against the mirror
You said "I don't want your money! Get outta here!"

True love

#love
#TrueLove
#FredFrith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711rVlTbrL4

I heard it’s #FortnightFridayMusic and the theme is #Lonely?

#NowPlaying #JohnZorn #NakedCity ❝I talked about doing a cover of some #OrnetteColeman stuff and #FredFrith said, “Oh yeah, how about that tune Pretty Woman?” Like, he made a slip of the tongue. And I said, “Oh yeah, of course! We’re gonna do that at the same time as Lonely Woman!” Just kinda as a joke.❞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBlViimcTnE

Gestern habe ich mit Freunden den sehr empfehlenswerten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Film "Step Across the Border" (1990) über den Musiker "Fred Frith" gesehen! Fred Frith war mir bis dahin kein Begriff: Jazzer, Rocker, Komponist. Beeindruckend zu sehen, was man mit einer Gitarre alles machen und wie Kreativität entstehen kann. Zu sehen auch die durch den Film bekannt gewordene tschechische Sängerin und Violinistin Iva Bittová. Sehenswert!

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Across_the_Border

#jazz #fredfrith #ivabittova

Perhaps the world's oddest "supergroup." Drumbo's stutter step driving great Richard Thompson songwriting.
#Drumbo
#RichardThompson
#FredFrith
#HenryKaiser
#JohnFrench

https://youtu.be/S2za_GYuvUw