Released 2002 Digital Wildlife
(2002) Accidental
(2002) Release date 2002 Label Winter & Winter | Length 49:04 Artists Fred Frith, Maybe Monday Producer Fred Frith | |
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Recorded May 2001
Guerilla Euphorics, Oakland Genres Avant-garde jazz, Free improvisation Similar Fred Frith albums, Free improvisation albums | ||
Digital Wildlife is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith's group Maybe Monday which was released on the Winter & Winter label.
Contents
Reception
Allmusic gave the album 3½ stars. JazzTimes' Aaron Steinberg observed "Digital Wildlife can sound, at any random point, like chamber-classical, abstract rock or folk. Frith also takes the title of the recording quite seriously: he seems to have taken tapes from the group's live-time improvisations and mixed them into a multilayered, abruptly shifting, densely overlapping collage of machine music. Acoustic and electronic elements have been cut, rearranged and pasted into a dreamy floating space, where any voice could at any time sound thoroughly foregrounded, distant, looped or distorted beyond recognition... Digital Wildlife has ambience to spare, though to most it will sound like a racket. Give this one some time. Frith has carefully crafted his own lexicon of sound, and once you've tuned in to what he's doing this beautiful recording pays dividends".
Track listing
All compositions by Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Miya Masaoka and Larry Ochs
- "Digital Wildlife" - 12:11
- "Image In and Atom" - 9:55
- "The Prisoners' Dilemma" - 14:30
- "Touch / Risk" - 7:23
- "Close to Home" - 4:58
Personnel
Songs
1Digital Wildlife12:12
2Image in and Atom9:55
3The Prisoner's Dilemma14:30