Fred Frith – Gravity
Жанр: Experimental rock, Jazz-Rock, Avantgarde, Folk Rock
Год выпуска: 1980
Лейбл: Ralph Records, FF 8057-L
Страна-производитель: USA
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: sides+.cue
Формат записи: 24/96
Формат раздачи: 24/96
Продолжительность: 46:22
Треклист:
A1 The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany) [4:56]
A2 Spring Any Day Now [3:04]
A3 Don't Cry For Me [3:29]
A4 The Hands Of The Juggler [5:31]
A5 Norrgården Nyvla [2:54]
A6 Year Of The Monkey [4:09]
B1 What A Dilemma [3:12]
B2 Crack In The Concrete [1:24]
B3 Come Across [2:47]
B4 Dancing In The Street [3:07]
B5 My Enemy Is A Bad Man [1:34]
B6 Slap Dance [2:32]
B7 A Career In Real Estate [4:41]
B8 Dancing In Rockville Maryland [3:02]
Источник оцифровки: выполнена автором раздачи
Код класса состояния винила: Excellent
Устройство воспроизведения: Micro Seiki DD7
Головка звукоснимателя: Denon-103/Denon AU-320
Предварительный усилитель: Audio-Technica ATPEQ20
АЦП: Tascam US-122mkII
Программа-оцифровщик: Audacity 2.0.1
Обработка: никакой
Музыканты, данные по альбому
Personnel:
Side one:
Fred Frith – guitar, bass guitar, violin, extra percussion
Samla Mammas Manna:
Lars Hollmer – piano, organ, accordion
Hans Bruniusson – drums
Eino Haapala – guitar, mandolin
Marc Hollander – alto saxophone, clarinet
Guests:
Olivia Bruynhooghe – tap dancing, clapping
Chris Cutler – snare drum and maracas (track 3), clapping
Tina Curran – whirling, clapping
Catherine Jauniaux – whirling, clapping
Frank Wuyts – recorders (track 6), whirling, clapping
Michel Berckmans – clapping
Etienne Conod – clapping
Denis van Hecke – clapping
Veronique Vincent – clapping
Recording and production:
Recorded at Norrgården Nyvla in Uppsala, Sweden and at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in August 1979.
Gabriel Rosen – engineer (Sweden)
Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland)
Side two:
Fred Frith – guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards, drums (tracks 1,5,7)
The Muffins:
Dave Newhouse – alto saxophone, organ (track 4)
Thomas Scott – soprano saxophone (track 6)
Paul Sears – drums (tracks 1,2,4,6,8)
Billy Swann – bass guitar (tracks 2,4,6,8)
Marc Hollander – alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Guests:
Hans Bruniusson – drums (track 4)
Tina Curran – subliminal bass guitar (track 1)
Frank Wuyts – drums (track 3)
Recording and production:
Recorded at Catch-a-Buzz Studio, Rockville, Maryland, United States in November 1979 and at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in January 1980.
Thomas Scott and Colleen Scott – engineers (USA)
Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland)
Artwork:
Alfreda Benge (Robert Wyatt's wife) – album cover artwork on the original LP record.
Manufactured By – Ralph Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cryptic Corporation
Copyright (c) – Cryptic Corporation
Published By – Arcades Music
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Gravity is a 1980 solo album by English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith from Henry Cow and Art Bears. It was Frith's second solo album and his first since the demise of Henry Cow in 1978. It was originally released in the United States on LP record on The Residents's Ralph record label and was the first of three solo albums Frith made for the label.
Gravity was recorded in Sweden, the United States and Switzerland and featured Frith with Swedish Rock in Opposition group Samla Mammas Manna on one side of the LP, and Frith with United States progressive rock group The Muffins on the other side. Additional musicians included Marc Hollander from Aksak Maboul and Chris Cutler from Henry Cow.
Gravity has been described as an avant-garde "dance" record that draws on rhythm and dance from folk music across the world. AllMusic called it one of the most important experimental guitar titles from Fred Frith.
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"[Dance is] the victory over gravity, over all that weighs down and oppresses, the change of body into spirit, the elevation of creature into creator, the merging with the infinite, the divine."
Musicologist Curt Sachs, 1937.