fred frith - prints (2002)

Instruments & voices by Fred Frith

01. Trains & Boats & Planes (5:07)
Music: Burt Bacharach

02. Stones (2:01)
Bernd Lehmann - clarinet, tenor sax
Text: IHT 27/01/97 Palestinian independence celebration in Hebron
Samples: D.A. Rose - Ligueyou Ndeye

03. Fingerprints (3:50)
Bernd Lehmann - clarinet, tenor sax

04. Life Of A Detective (3:13)
Mike Johnson - principle voice
Dave Kerman - back-up voice
Lyrics by Ernest Noyes Brookings

05. The Ballad Of Melody Nelson (2:01)
Words & music: Serge Gainsbourg

06. Trocosi (4:36)
Sebastian Gramms - acoustic bass
Text: IHT 28/01/97 Enslavement of women in Ghana

07. Reduce Me (5:48)
Alexandra Schulz - additional voice
Text: Guardian July 2001 Afghan woman returns home after ten years of exile

08. Levity (2:36)
Samples: Inuit - Kattajait
Applause for Helmut Kohl speech, Brandenburg gate, Berlin

09. True Love (2:56)
Sheena Dupuis - backing vocals

10. I Want It To Be Over (3:01)
Text: IHT 27/01/97 Bill Clinton interviewed about Monica Lewinsky
Samples: Escher-loop, broken glass

11. Spot (4:38)

12. In The Winter Of '64 (1:48)

"Some of the songs on this album are taken from compilations to which I have contributed over the years. Stones, Fingerprints, Trocosi, Levity, I want it to be over and In the winter of '64 were recorded for a WDR radio production by Alexander Schuhmacher. The aim of the program was to explore the nature of improvisation. I was supposed to create pieces spontaneously, using my choices from a long list of sampled fragments which I heard only after arriving in the studio. The texts were derived from whatever was in the newspaper on the day of the recording. All these songs were composed and constructed directly onto tape without preparation. Reduce me was recorded four years later, using the same basic principle. Spot is a live guitar improvisation."

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