WFMU: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from March 27, 2024

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from March 27, 2024

Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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March 27, 2024: Spying on Fred Frith

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Fred Frith.

The composer/guitarist, experimental mountaineer, and telepathic innovator
in a sideways survey covering 50 years of solos, bands, collaborations, and the unexpected.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Fred Frith	The Tangled Bank "The Tangled Bank" by "Fred Frith"	Accidental	Morphius Records	2001	From a series of Music for Dance albums made by the composer/guitarist, recorded 1995-96 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany.

Fred Frith	Out of Their Heads (on Locoweed) (1974)	Guitar Solos / Fifty	Week-End Records	2024	From a new release marrying the 1974 solos with a newly recorded batch.	0:06:49 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Dawns (2024) "Dawns (2024)" by "Fred Frith"	Guitar Solos / Fifty	Week-End Records	2024	From a new release marrying the 1974 solos with a newly recorded batch.	0:15:01 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Trio	Bones to Pick with Graveyards	Closer to the Ground	Intakt	2018	Composer/guitarist Frith's touring band with Jason Hoopes, electric bass, double bass and Jordan Glenn, drums, percussion.	0:18:27 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Incoming "Incoming" by "Fred Frith"	Accidental	Morphius Records	2001	From a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, recorded 1995-96 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany.	0:23:45 (Pop-up)

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet	The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not E	Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet	RecRec	1993	Performers: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Mark Howell, René Lussier.	0:32:59 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet	The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not A	Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet	RecRec	1993	Performers: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Mark Howell, René Lussier.	0:38:15 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith - Barry Guy	Fred Frith - Barry Guy	Backscatter Bright Blue	Intakt	2014	Fred Frith, guitar; Barry Guy, double bass.	0:44:46 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	The Boy Beats the Rams	Gravity	Ralph Records	1980	Frith with Swedish Rock in Opposition group Samla Mammas Manna (other tracks on the album feature the Muffins).	0:49:37 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Heart Bares "Heart Bares" by "Fred Frith"	Cheap at Half the Price	Morphius Records	2004	Created 1983. From a series of solo albums Frith made for the Residents' record label, Ralph Records (also Gravity and Speechless). Recorded at home on a 4-track machine.	0:54:36 (Pop-up)

Frith/Parkins/Mori/Staley	Concert Recording	Roulette Archive	Roulette Intermedium	1985	Excerpt from a 1985 improv set with guitarist Frith; Zeena Parkins, harp; Ikue Mori, drums; Jim Staley, trombone.	1:04:37 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Cosa Brava	The Eyjafjallajökull Tango	The Letter	Intakt Records	2012	Composer Frith, guitar, bass; Carla Kihlstedt, violin, bass harmonica; Zeena Parkins, accordion, keyboards, foley objects; Shahzad Ismaily, bass; The Norman Conquest, sound manipulation.	1:17:12 (Pop-up)

Henry Cow	Ruins "Ruins" by "Henry Cow"	Unrest (Remastered)	Morphius Records	2021	Recorded 1974. Project founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson, here with drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, and bassoonist/oboist Lindsay Cooper.	1:27:35 (Pop-up)
Henry Cow	Rio 1 "Rio 1" by "Henry Cow"	Late	ReR Megacorp	2017	Georgie Born, bass, cello; Lindsay Cooper, bassoon, oboe, recorder, sopranino saxophone; Chris Cutler, drums; Fred Frith, guitar, violin, xylophone; Tim Hodgkinson, organ, alto sax. clarinet. Recorded at the Rock In Opposition Festival at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 1978. From Volume 9 of the Henry Cow Anniversary Box Set.	1:39:10 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith - Hans Koch	Strange Is the Night Where Black Stars Rise	you are here	Intakt	2017	Fred Frith, electric guitar, various small objects; Hans Koch: bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophones, spit.	1:45:48 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	🥁 5:00pm WR: Is this spying consensual?
	🥁 5:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Ridgewoodians and all!
	🥁 5:01pm david w: ↳ WR @5:00 An unsolicited invasion.
	🥁 5:02pm david w: Good evening, james!
	5:02pm headcleaner: Afternoon peoples. Appointment radio this is.
	5:05pm Curt: Tuning in from Portland. Been listening to some Frith lately so this show is timely!
	5:06pm Sem: Hello, David, ruth, WR, LJfW, headcleaner, and Curt!
	🥁 5:06pm WR: For the Frith faithful who would like some more, David Mittleman recorded an interview with Frith and then edited it with music for the program. wfmu.org...
	🥁 5:08pm WR: ↳ WR @5:06 that was from May 2023.
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello headcleaner and Curt and Sem and all!
	5:11pm ruth: love!
	5:15pm headcleaner: Finally taking a deep dive into his stuff. Perfect (rainy, quiet) afternoon for doing so, also.
	5:19pm Hank: Hello Ridgewood Radioans, DW, and Ruth
	🥁 5:20pm david w: Hello there, Hank!
	5:22pm Flint_Jack: hello David, really enjoying the Frith
	🥁 5:23pm david w: ↳ Flint_Jack @5:22 Welcome F_J! Enjoy at will!
	🥁 5:34pm tom tom the pipers son: gggreetings david and people...
	🥁 5:35pm david w: ttttom!
	🥁 5:39pm tom tom the pipers son: the fifth fit frith's fifth fish is fat
	5:39pm Matt: This is all the Fred Frith I didn't know I needed today..
	🥁 5:40pm david w: Matt!
	🥁 5:42pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:39 Well at least its not a flat fifth!
	🥁 5:43pm tom tom the pipers son: haa haa! i didn't want a punch in the nose...
	🥁 5:46pm tom tom the pipers son: so bill orcutt is not the first with a guitar quartet....
	🥁 5:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "The Boy Beats the Rams" by "Fred Frith" am enjoying this
	🥁 6:01pm chresti: Hi david and ruth and ridgewoodians!
	6:13pm frith freak: Oh indeed, Frith’s trilogy of sorts : “Gravity” was a welcomed revelation as a “solo” monikered album (with assistance from the incomparable Samla Mammas Manna/Zamla’s & The Muffins). Then came a powerhouse followup statement with “Speechless” (assisted by etron fou leloublanc & Massacre). And lastly, the quirky tunesmith “Cheap at Half the Price” - which was indeed a digression of expression. Love it ALL ! Thanks 👏👏👏.
	🥁 6:15pm david w: ↳ chresti @6:01 chresti, hi! (sorry I snuck off for a snack)
	🥁 6:16pm david w: ↳ frith freak @6:13 Thanks, dear freak, for the bit of context.
	🥁 6:24pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Eyjafjallajökull Tango" by "Fred Frith Cosa B... dancibg with a volcano...
	🥁 6:29pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Heyo. Working late and setting up replacement phone which Verizon finally realized was part of my overpriced insurance plan. Gah.
	6:29pm frith freak: The Eyjafjallajökull Tango by Fred Frith Cosa Brava (The Letter) = that one refreshened & freaked my Fred Frith frenzy ! Super Duper Huzzah ! 🙌. Henry Cow fave : “western culture”.
	🥁 6:31pm david w: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @6:29 Threemoons vs Verizon. I'd pay to watch that!
	🥁 6:32pm david w: Here's the sign up thing for the Drummer newsletter: buttondown.email...
	🥁 6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex put on a show in london with derek bailey and tim hodgkinson, years later we bumped into him outside albert hall after a proms presentation of early cornelius cardew pieces...probably 2009
	🥁 6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Ruins" by "Henry Cow" this recording is clear as a bell
	🥁 6:37pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 Good bump!
	🥁 6:38pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:37 I don't know who remastered this, but well done!
	🥁 6:39pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ david w @6:37 he was with a group of famous people, frith could have been among them
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Up next dept: 7-10pm (EDT): BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: We Like It Like That: A mixtape for Franny, if she wants it. Punk, postpunk, proto-punk, pop, and similar pulsations from Algeria, Belarus, Chile, former East German Republic, Mexico, Nigeria, Uruguay, former Yugoslavia, and beyond. wfmu.org... 10pm-Midnite: IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	6:48pm frith freak: Frith changed my musical listening world (circa 1981). Along with Chris Cutler & Recommended Records - my entire world shifted.
	6:50pm Rich in Washington: Frithtastic show! Thanks so much!
	🥁 6:50pm tom tom the pipers son: thank you david...
	🥁 6:51pm david w: Thanks, Rich, tom tom and everyone. Going out gently (again!).
	🥁 6:53pm WR: Thank you for the wonderful flight of Frith with which you have filled us.
	6:54pm Flint_Jack: Thanks David
	6:54pm Gary: This looks like an episode for the ages -- can't wait to hear it in the archives, David
	🥁 6:55pm david w: Gary! WR! Flint_Jack! My pleasure!
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Thanks david!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Fred Frith	The Tangled Bank "The Tangled Bank" by "Fred Frith"	Accidental	Morphius Records	2001	From a series of Music for Dance albums made by the composer/guitarist, recorded 1995-96 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany.

Fred Frith	Out of Their Heads (on Locoweed) (1974)	Guitar Solos / Fifty	Week-End Records	2024	From a new release marrying the 1974 solos with a newly recorded batch.	0:06:49 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Dawns (2024) "Dawns (2024)" by "Fred Frith"	Guitar Solos / Fifty	Week-End Records	2024	From a new release marrying the 1974 solos with a newly recorded batch.	0:15:01 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Trio	Bones to Pick with Graveyards	Closer to the Ground	Intakt	2018	Composer/guitarist Frith's touring band with Jason Hoopes, electric bass, double bass and Jordan Glenn, drums, percussion.	0:18:27 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Incoming "Incoming" by "Fred Frith"	Accidental	Morphius Records	2001	From a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, recorded 1995-96 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany.	0:23:45 (Pop-up)

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet	The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not E	Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet	RecRec	1993	Performers: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Mark Howell, René Lussier.	0:32:59 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet	The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not A	Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet	RecRec	1993	Performers: Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Mark Howell, René Lussier.	0:38:15 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith - Barry Guy	Fred Frith - Barry Guy	Backscatter Bright Blue	Intakt	2014	Fred Frith, guitar; Barry Guy, double bass.	0:44:46 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	The Boy Beats the Rams	Gravity	Ralph Records	1980	Frith with Swedish Rock in Opposition group Samla Mammas Manna (other tracks on the album feature the Muffins).	0:49:37 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith	Heart Bares "Heart Bares" by "Fred Frith"	Cheap at Half the Price	Morphius Records	2004	Created 1983. From a series of solo albums Frith made for the Residents' record label, Ralph Records (also Gravity and Speechless). Recorded at home on a 4-track machine.	0:54:36 (Pop-up)

Frith/Parkins/Mori/Staley	Concert Recording	Roulette Archive	Roulette Intermedium	1985	Excerpt from a 1985 improv set with guitarist Frith; Zeena Parkins, harp; Ikue Mori, drums; Jim Staley, trombone.	1:04:37 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith Cosa Brava	The Eyjafjallajökull Tango	The Letter	Intakt Records	2012	Composer Frith, guitar, bass; Carla Kihlstedt, violin, bass harmonica; Zeena Parkins, accordion, keyboards, foley objects; Shahzad Ismaily, bass; The Norman Conquest, sound manipulation.	1:17:12 (Pop-up)

Henry Cow	Ruins "Ruins" by "Henry Cow"	Unrest (Remastered)	Morphius Records	2021	Recorded 1974. Project founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson, here with drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, and bassoonist/oboist Lindsay Cooper.	1:27:35 (Pop-up)
Henry Cow	Rio 1 "Rio 1" by "Henry Cow"	Late	ReR Megacorp	2017	Georgie Born, bass, cello; Lindsay Cooper, bassoon, oboe, recorder, sopranino saxophone; Chris Cutler, drums; Fred Frith, guitar, violin, xylophone; Tim Hodgkinson, organ, alto sax. clarinet. Recorded at the Rock In Opposition Festival at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 1978. From Volume 9 of the Henry Cow Anniversary Box Set.	1:39:10 (Pop-up)
Fred Frith - Hans Koch	Strange Is the Night Where Black Stars Rise	you are here	Intakt	2017	Fred Frith, electric guitar, various small objects; Hans Koch: bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophones, spit.	1:45:48 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 5:00pm WR: Is this spying consensual?
	🥁 5:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Ridgewoodians and all!
	🥁 5:01pm david w: ↳ WR @5:00 An unsolicited invasion.
	🥁 5:02pm david w: Good evening, james!
	5:02pm headcleaner: Afternoon peoples. Appointment radio this is.
	5:05pm Curt: Tuning in from Portland. Been listening to some Frith lately so this show is timely!
	5:06pm Sem: Hello, David, ruth, WR, LJfW, headcleaner, and Curt!
	🥁 5:06pm WR: For the Frith faithful who would like some more, David Mittleman recorded an interview with Frith and then edited it with music for the program. wfmu.org...
	🥁 5:08pm WR: ↳ WR @5:06 that was from May 2023.
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello headcleaner and Curt and Sem and all!
	5:11pm ruth: love!
	5:15pm headcleaner: Finally taking a deep dive into his stuff. Perfect (rainy, quiet) afternoon for doing so, also.
	5:19pm Hank: Hello Ridgewood Radioans, DW, and Ruth
	🥁 5:20pm david w: Hello there, Hank!
	5:22pm Flint_Jack: hello David, really enjoying the Frith
	🥁 5:23pm david w: ↳ Flint_Jack @5:22 Welcome F_J! Enjoy at will!
	🥁 5:34pm tom tom the pipers son: gggreetings david and people...
	🥁 5:35pm david w: ttttom!
	🥁 5:39pm tom tom the pipers son: the fifth fit frith's fifth fish is fat
	5:39pm Matt: This is all the Fred Frith I didn't know I needed today..
	🥁 5:40pm david w: Matt!
	🥁 5:42pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:39 Well at least its not a flat fifth!
	🥁 5:43pm tom tom the pipers son: haa haa! i didn't want a punch in the nose...
	🥁 5:46pm tom tom the pipers son: so bill orcutt is not the first with a guitar quartet....
	🥁 5:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "The Boy Beats the Rams" by "Fred Frith" am enjoying this
	🥁 6:01pm chresti: Hi david and ruth and ridgewoodians!
	6:13pm frith freak: Oh indeed, Frith’s trilogy of sorts : “Gravity” was a welcomed revelation as a “solo” monikered album (with assistance from the incomparable Samla Mammas Manna/Zamla’s & The Muffins). Then came a powerhouse followup statement with “Speechless” (assisted by etron fou leloublanc & Massacre). And lastly, the quirky tunesmith “Cheap at Half the Price” - which was indeed a digression of expression. Love it ALL ! Thanks 👏👏👏.
	🥁 6:15pm david w: ↳ chresti @6:01 chresti, hi! (sorry I snuck off for a snack)
	🥁 6:16pm david w: ↳ frith freak @6:13 Thanks, dear freak, for the bit of context.
	🥁 6:24pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Eyjafjallajökull Tango" by "Fred Frith Cosa B... dancibg with a volcano...
	🥁 6:29pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Heyo. Working late and setting up replacement phone which Verizon finally realized was part of my overpriced insurance plan. Gah.
	6:29pm frith freak: The Eyjafjallajökull Tango by Fred Frith Cosa Brava (The Letter) = that one refreshened & freaked my Fred Frith frenzy ! Super Duper Huzzah ! 🙌. Henry Cow fave : “western culture”.
	🥁 6:31pm david w: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @6:29 Threemoons vs Verizon. I'd pay to watch that!
	🥁 6:32pm david w: Here's the sign up thing for the Drummer newsletter: buttondown.email...
	🥁 6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: my ex put on a show in london with derek bailey and tim hodgkinson, years later we bumped into him outside albert hall after a proms presentation of early cornelius cardew pieces...probably 2009
	🥁 6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Ruins" by "Henry Cow" this recording is clear as a bell
	🥁 6:37pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 Good bump!
	🥁 6:38pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:37 I don't know who remastered this, but well done!
	🥁 6:39pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ david w @6:37 he was with a group of famous people, frith could have been among them
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Up next dept: 7-10pm (EDT): BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: We Like It Like That: A mixtape for Franny, if she wants it. Punk, postpunk, proto-punk, pop, and similar pulsations from Algeria, Belarus, Chile, former East German Republic, Mexico, Nigeria, Uruguay, former Yugoslavia, and beyond. wfmu.org... 10pm-Midnite: IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	6:48pm frith freak: Frith changed my musical listening world (circa 1981). Along with Chris Cutler & Recommended Records - my entire world shifted.
	6:50pm Rich in Washington: Frithtastic show! Thanks so much!
	🥁 6:50pm tom tom the pipers son: thank you david...
	🥁 6:51pm david w: Thanks, Rich, tom tom and everyone. Going out gently (again!).
	🥁 6:53pm WR: Thank you for the wonderful flight of Frith with which you have filled us.
	6:54pm Flint_Jack: Thanks David
	6:54pm Gary: This looks like an episode for the ages -- can't wait to hear it in the archives, David
	🥁 6:55pm david w: Gary! WR! Flint_Jack! My pleasure!
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Thanks david!

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from March 27, 2024

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