Rivers and Tides (soundtrack)

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Rivers and Tides
Soundtrack by Fred Frith
Released	2003
Recorded	Germany, 2002
Genre	Chamber music Experimental music
Length	40:51
Label	Winter & Winter (Germany)
Producer	Fred Frith
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Piero Scaruffi (6.5/10) link
Fred Frith chronology
Prints (2002) Rivers and Tides (2003) Eye to Ear II (2004)

Rivers and Tides: Working with Time is a soundtrack by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 2001 Anglo-German documentary film, Rivers and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.

Frith composed all the music for the soundtrack and incorporated sound clips of water from the film in the final mix. The music has been described as chamber ^[1] and features Frith and a German trio of Karoline Höfler, Bernd Settelmeyer and Wolfgang Stryi.

In a review of the album, All Music Guide had this to say of Frith: "Rivers and Tides demonstrates that Frith is not only a skewed pop genius and fearless improviser, but a remarkably empathetic soundtrack composer as well." ^[2]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Sound and art work 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Part I" (Frith) – 10:08
2. "Part II" (Frith) – 3:10
3. "Part III" (Frith) – 2:22
4. "Part IV" (Frith) – 1:25
5. "Part V" (Frith) – 4:40
6. "Part VI" (Frith) – 4:15
7. "Part VII" (Frith) – 11:31
8. "Part VIII" (Frith) – 3:20

[edit] Personnel

• Fred Frith – guitar, samples, violin, piano, berimbao
• Karoline Höfler – double bass
• Bernd Settelmeyer – percussion
• Wolfgang Stryi – soprano saxophone, bass clarinet

[edit] Sound and art work

• Digitally recorded and mixed at Jankowski Tonstudio, Esslingen, Germany, July 8-9, 2002
  • Engineered by Peter Hardt
• Digital re-mixing and mastering at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, Germany, January 30-31, 2003
  • Engineered by Adrian von Ripka with Stefan Winter
• Art and photography by Andy Goldsworthy
• Prints by Peter Postel

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Rivers and Tides: Working With Time 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