Length 67:50 Release date February 2011 | Label Intakt Records | |
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Released February 2011 (2011-02) Recorded November–December 2007, Germany Songs Clearing Customs (after F. Frith) Similar Fred Frith albums, Free improvisation albums, Other albums | ||
Clearing Customs is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is based on a week of recordings and performances in November and December 2007 at a New Jazz Meeting at SWR, a German radio station in southwest Germany. Two hour-long national broadcasts were made. The album was released by Intakt Records in February 2011.
Contents
The music is based on a 75-minute composition by Frith, and improvised by all the performers. It uses a "graphic structural model" that links "diverse types of musical events" on a time line. Traditional jazz instruments were used, plus Asian guzheng and tablas, and electronics. Frith drew on English theatre maker Peter Brook's approach of bringing together performers from completely different cultural backgrounds.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Frith.
- "Clearing Customs" – 67:50
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Sound and artwork
Recorded at SWR studio 1 in Baden-Baden, Germany on November 29, 2007, and in Saarbrücken, Germany on December 1, 2007.
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