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Released
  
2002 (2002)

Label
  
Fred (UK)

Artist
  
Fred Frith

Producer
  
Fred Frith

Length
  
39:25

Accidental(2002)
  
Prints(2002)

Release date
  
2002

Genre
  
Experimental rock

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Recorded
  
December 1995 – January 1996

Accidental(2002)
  
The Happy End Problem(2006)

Fred Frith albums
  
Prints, Clearing, Back to Life, Pacifica, Propaganda

Accidental


Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the third of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and was recorded between December 1995 and January 1996 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany. The album was released on CD in March 2002 on Fred Records and was the first release in Frith's archival release program on the record label.

Contents

Background

Accidental was commissioned in 1995 by the British choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton for the dance piece "Rogue Tool", with funding provided by the British Council through the British/Israeli cultural initiative, BI Arts. "Rogue Tool" was premiered by the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel in February 1996.

Frith constructed the music on Accidental using a principle he called "block-melodies" and he incorporated random events, or "accidents", into the compositions, including "found sounds" and field recordings, to trigger new patterns. Frith explained the background to the making of the album:

Reception

Bill Tilland of the BBC wrote in a review of this album:

Track listing

  1. "The Tangled Bank" (Frith) – 3:40
  2. "Hit and Run" (Frith) – 2:57
  3. "Gatto Nero" (Frith) – 1:33
  4. "Old Geometry" (Frith) – 2:24
  5. "Their Blood is Black and Yellow" (Frith) – 4:33
  6. "In a Heartbeat" (Frith) – 1:15
  7. "Fooled Again" (Frith) – 5:04
  8. "Accidental" (Frith) – 3:27
  9. "Absinthe Memories (for Phil Minton)" (Frith) – 3:00
  10. "Incoming" (Frith) – 6:20
  11. "Almighty Home at Last" (Frith) – 5:12

Personnel

  • Fred Frith – guitars, violin, keyboards, percussion, samplers, voice

    • Sound

  • Extraneous material taken from recordings of demonstrations in New York City and Washington, D.C., and random radio tunings
  • Engineered by Peter Hardt
  • Edited and mastered by Peter Hardt and Fred Frith, July 2000
  • Design and artwork by Tomas Kurth

    • References

    Accidental (album) Wikipedia
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