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Step Across the Border (soundtrack)

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Released
  
1990 (1990)

Length
  
73:31

Artist
  
Fred Frith

Movie
  
Step Across the Border

Genre
  
Experimental rock

Recorded
  
1979–1989

Label
  
RecRec (Switzerland)

Release date
  
1990

Producer
  
Fred Frith

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Similar
  
Fred Frith albums, Experimental rock albums

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Step Across the Border is a soundtrack double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1990 avant-garde documentary film on Frith, Step Across the Border. The album features music from the film performed by Frith and other musicians, and covers ten years of Frith's musical career.

Contents

Step across the border


Music

Step Across the Border is more than a just a soundtrack. It includes additional tracks, for example, "Drum Factory" and "Candy Machine", that were written for the album by Frith from ambient sounds in the film. Discussing the album, Frith said:

The album also includes live music as performed in the film, for example "Houston St"; tracks from other albums that accompany scenes in the film, for example "Too Much Too Little"; and tracks from other albums that replace live covers of those tracks performed in the film, for example "Legs".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Fred Frith except where stated.

Personnel

The numbers below indicate the tracks on which the musicians played.

  • Fred Frith (1–3, 5–22, 24–26) – guitar, violin, bass guitar, DX7, Casio, percussion, bottles, home-made instruments, voice
  • Tom Cora (1, 7, 10) – cello, drum, voice
  • Zeena Parkins (1, 10) – keyboards, drum, voice
  • Bob Ostertag (2a, 11, 24) – Serge synthesizer, tapes, samples
  • Bill Laswell (2b, 17a) – bass guitar
  • Fred Maher (2b, 17a) – drums
  • John Zorn (5) – alto saxophone
  • Jean Derome (11) – alto saxophone
  • René Lussier (11) – bass guitar
  • Kevin Norton (11) – drums
  • Eino Haapala (13) – guitar
  • Lars Hollmer (13) – keyboards
  • Hans Bruniusson (13, 21) – drums
  • Tim Hodgkinson (14) – bass clarinet
  • Iva Bittová (19, 23) – violin, voice
  • Pavel Fajt (19, 23) – beer cans, guitar, voice
  • Eitetsu Hayashi (20) – taiko
  • Tina Curran (25) – bass guitar
  • Haco (4) – piano, voice

    • Recording details

  • Tracks 1, 10 – recorded by Tim Hodgkinson at Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland, December 1985
  • Tracks 2a, 24 – recorded live at PASS, New York City, January 1981
  • Track 2b – recorded by Martin Bisi at OAO Studio, New York, June 1981
  • Tracks 3a, 4 – recorded by Yasushi Utsunomiyaat at MUE Studio, Osaka, Japan, February 1988
  • Tracks 2a, 3b, 6, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17b, 18, 22, 24, 26 – recorded by Rainer Carben at Bavaria TV Studios in Munich, Germany, December 1989
  • Tracks 5, 7 – recorded live at The Kitchen, New York City, February 1989
  • Tracks 9, 12 – recorded live at the Romanisches Café, Tokyo, Japan, February 1988
  • Track 11 – recorded live in rehearsal at Roulette, New York City, February 1988
  • Track 13 – recorded at Chickenhouse, Uppsala, Sweden and Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland, July 1979
  • Tracks 14, 20, 22 – recorded live at ROX, Tokyo, Japan, February 1988
  • Track 14 – recorded at Hodgkinson's home in Yorkshire and Brixton, England, December 1988
  • Tracks 17a, 21, 25 – recorded in Frith's apartment in New York City, August 1983
  • Track 19 – recorded by Rudolf Oleschko in Provence, France and Paosostraße, Munich, Germany, July 1989
  • Tracks 23 – recorded at a hotel room, Bern, Switzerland March 1989

    • Tracks from other albums

  • Track 1 – from Skeleton Crew's contribution to the Island of Sanity compilation (1986)
  • Tracks 2a, 24 – from Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton's LP Voice of America (1982)
  • Track 2b – from Massacre's LP Killing Time (1981)
  • Track 10 – from Skeleton Crew's LP The Country of Blinds (1986)
  • Track 13 – from Fred Frith's LP Gravity (1980)
  • Tracks 17a, 21, 25 – from Fred Frith's LP Cheap at Half the Price (1983)

    • CD reissues

  • In 1991 East Side Digital and RecRec Music re-issued Step Across the Border on CD.
  • In 2003 Fred Records released a remastered version of Step Across the Border on CD.

    • Songs

    1Sparrow Song1:30
    2Voice of America - Part 3 / Legs4:26
    3Selluloid Restaurant / The Old Man Puts Out the Fire3:12

    References

    Step Across the Border (soundtrack) Wikipedia
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