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Recorded
  
2000, 2001, 2007

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (2009)
  
Eye to Ear III (2010)

Release date
  
September 2009

Label
  
Recommended Records

Length
  
76:38

Artist
  
Fred Frith

Producer
  
Fred Frith

Genre
  
Experimental music

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Released
  
September 2009 (2009-09)

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (2009)
  
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Similar
  
Fred Frith albums, Experimental music albums

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, and is the sixth of a series of Music for Dance albums he made.

Contents

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air consists of three commissions by three choreographers, each sharing, according to Frith, "a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction". "Nowhere" and "Sideshow" were written by Frith for violinist Carla Kihlstedt, and are performed by Frith, Kihlstedt and others. "Thin Air" features Frith, Hande Erdem (violin) and Theresa Wong (cello).

Track listing

All compositions by Fred Frith.

  1. "Nowhere" – commissioned by choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton and performed at The Hague in November 2000
    1. "Nowhere to Run" – 5:17
    2. "Nowhere Near" – 3:19
    3. "Nowhere to be Seen" – 3:10
    4. "Nowhere Else" – 1:43
    5. "Nowhere Can Compare" – 2:21
    6. "Getting Nowhere" – 2:27
    7. "Going Nowhere" – 2:25
    8. "Nowhere to Hide" – 3:08
  2. "Sideshow" – commissioned by choreographer and director Peggy Piacenza and performed as part of the Northwest New Works Festival in 2001
    1. "Clearing the Throat" – 3:34
    2. "Show Time" – 7:24
    3. "On Or in the Wing" – 3:13
    4. "Act Two" – 3:31
    5. "Angels With Thirty Faces" – 5:17
    6. "In Which All May Have Been Resolved" – 5:27
    7. "Ghost of BB" – 1:48
    8. "Ms. Mac Drinks and Goes Home" – 1:19
  3. "Thin Air" – commissioned by choreographer Uchizono Donna Norton and performed in New York in October 2007
    1. "Ladders" – 6:52
    2. "Screened" – 1:35
    3. "Plastic" – 3:01
    4. "Running" – 3:51
    5. "Falling" – 3:27
    6. "Fast Feet" – 2:29

Personnel

  • Fred Frith – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, computing, samples, radio, running, bass mbira, low-grade violin, voice
  • Carla Kihlstedt – violin ("Nowhere", "Sideshow")
  • Fred Guiliano – samples ("Sideshow")
  • Gail Brand – trombone ("Sideshow")
  • Hande Erdem – violin ("Thin Air")
  • Theresa Wong – cello ("Thin Air")

    • Recording and production

  • "Nowhere" recorded September – October 2000 at Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland, California by Myles Boisen
  • "Sideshow" recorded January – February 2001 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen
  • "Thin Air" recorded May 2007 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen
  • Mixed 2008 at Guerrilla Recordings by Myles Boisen

    • Songs

    1Nowhere to Run5:17
    2Nowhere Near3:19
    3Nowhere to be Seen3:10

    References

    Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air Wikipedia
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