Released 2000 Producer Stefan Winter Label Winter & Winter | Length 64:00 Release date 2000 | |
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Recorded December 14-17, 1998 Das TAT, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt Traffic Continues(2000) 2 Gentlemen in Verona(2000) Similar Fred Frith albums, Other albums | ||
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Traffic Continues is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith featuring the Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, which was released on the Winter & Winter label. The album features a suite dedicated to cellist Tom Cora built around samples of his playing from Etymology (Rarefaction, 1997).
Contents
- Fred frith traffic continues ensemble modern traffic iii traffic i
- Fred frith traffic continues first riddle
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
Fred frith traffic continues first riddle
Reception
In his review for Allmusic, Dave Lynch called the album "one of the strongest statements of Frith's career, a finely balanced work that contains concert hall and street sensibilities in equal measure". PopMatters observed "this is adventurous and often heady music that is not for all tastes. But then, it’s not really meant to be either since this is music that sets out to challenge what is accepted as much as what is acceptable". The All About Jazz review noted "Traffic Continues is a fine and noteworthy edition to Fred Frith’s extensive catalog and ongoing legacy. Besides possessing a remarkably individualistic voice as a powerful and quite influential technician, Frith’s perceptive intellect shines forth on this multifaceted and curiously interesting recording".
Track listing
All compositions by Fred Frith
Traffic Continues
- "Inadvertent Introduction" - 0:53
- "First Riddle" - 2:30
- "Traffic II" - 4:25
- "Third Riddle" - 2:13
- "Lourdement Gai" - 1:06
- "Traffic III/Traffic I" - 2:17
- "Freeway/Shadow of a Tree on Sand" - 5:28
- "Fragile Finale" - 9:55
Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora)
Personnel
Ensemble Modern
Songs
1Inadevertent Introduction0:54
2First Riddle2:31
3Traffic II4:26