Live in Japan (Fred Frith album)

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Live in Japan
Live album by Fred Frith
Released	1982
Recorded	Japan, July 1981
Genre	Avant-progressive rock
Length	1:08:34
Label	Recommended (Japan)
Producer	Fred Frith
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Piero Scaruffi (6.5/10) link
Fred Frith chronology
Speechless (1981) Live in Japan (1982) Cheap at Half the Price (1983)

Live in Japan is a 1982 double live album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was recorded during an improvised solo performance tour of Japan in July 1981. The double album was released by Recommended Records Japan on two LP records in a black corrugated box containing booklets in English and Japanese. It was also released as two single LPs, entitled Live in Japan, Vol. 1 and Live in Japan, Vol. 2.

On Live in Japan, subtitled "The Guitars on the Table Approach", Frith continued his pioneering guitar work he began on his landmark ^[1] 1974 album Guitar Solos. Comprising eight improvised pieces taken from four concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Maebashi in 1981, Frith used an old 1961 solid body Burns guitar, built by British craftsman Jim Burns, a homemade six- and eight-string double-neck guitar created by a friend Charles Fletcher, and a battered violin. The guitars were laid flat on a table and "played" by plucking, scraping and beating the strings with a variety of found objects. Frith also wore a WW 2 pilot's throat microphone to amplify his periodic vocal utterances. The same microphone had been used by Frith during some of the Massacre concerts held earlier in 1981.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Concert venues 3 Personnel 3.1 Production 4 CD releases 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Track listing

Disk 1

1. "Osaka 1" (Frith) – 21:42
2. "Osaka 2" (Frith) – 2:16
3. "Osaka 3" (Frith) – 2:15
4. "Fukuoka 1" (Frith) – 9:30

Disk 2

1. "Fukuoka 2" (Frith) – 9:17
2. "Maebashi 1" (Frith) – 8:22
3. "Fukuoka 3" (Frith) – 11:22
4. "Tokyo 1" (Frith) – 3:50

[edit] Concert venues

Recorded live in Japan at:

• Nichifutsu Kaikan, Tokyo, 11 July 1981
• Mainichi Kokusai Salon, Osaka, 17 July 1981
• 80's Factory, Fukuoka, 20 July 1981
• Kawai Hall, Maebashi, 22 July 1981

[edit] Personnel

• Fred Frith
  • 1961 Burns Black Bison guitar
  • Charles Fletcher custom-made double-neck guitar
  • anonymous wrecked violin
  • WW 2 pilot's throat microphone
  • HH electronic SM200 stereo mixer
  • amplifier with HH digital effects unit

[edit] Production

Collated and adjusted at Sorcerer Sound, New York City, by Fred Frith, Greg Curry and Adam Moseley.

[edit] CD releases

Live in Japan is scheduled for release on Fred Records in 2007. It was remastered and restored from a virgin vinyl copy by Tom Dimuzio. The original master tapes were unobtainable. ^[2]

[edit] See also

• Fred Frith's equipment

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Live in Japan, Vol. 1 at Allmusic
• Live in Japan, Vol. 2 at Allmusic
• Fred Frith discography

v • d • e Fred Frith Henry Cow • Art Bears • Massacre • Skeleton Crew • Keep the Dog Duck and Cover • French Frith Kaiser Thompson • Death Ambient • Fred Frith Guitar Quartet • Maybe Monday • Cosa Brava Aksak Maboul • Material • Naked City Discography Guitar Solos (1974) • Gravity (1980) • Speechless (1981) • Live in Japan (1982) • Cheap at Half the Price (1983) • The Technology of Tears (1988) • The Top of His Head (1989) • Step Across the Border (1990) • Quartets (1994) • Middle of the Moment (1995) • Allies (1996) • Eye to Ear (1997) • The Previous Evening (1997) • Pacifica (1998) • Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (1999) • Clearing (2001) • Freedom in Fragments (2002) • Accidental (2002) • Prints (2002) • Rivers and Tides (2003) • Eye to Ear II (2004) • Eleventh Hour (2005) • Impur (2006) • The Happy End Problem (2006) • Back to Life (2008) Related articles Fred Frith discography • Fred Records