Friends & Enemies Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser

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  • Release Date: 05/15/1999
  • Sales Rank: 110,144
  • Label: CUNEIFORM
  • UPC: 045775011721

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Friends & Enemies

Disc 1
1LISTENIt Moves... / Henry Kaiser 2:07
2LISTENThe Changing of Names / Henry Kaiser 5:47
3LISTENIt Sings / Henry Kaiser 5:43
4LISTENBelieving What We Read / Henry Kaiser 3:02
5LISTENBut Does It Swing? / Henry Kaiser 3:34
6LISTENHard Time Killing Floor Blues / Henry Kaiser 3:31
7LISTENThe Golden Eighties / Henry Kaiser 5:47
8LISTENEveryday Objects / Henry Kaiser 2:52
9LISTENThe Kirghiz Light / Henry Kaiser 4:55
10LISTENSpecial Rider Blues 4:31
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Disc 2
1LISTENTwisted Memories Give Way to the Angry Present / Henry Kaiser 3:57
2LISTENBlack Glass / Henry Kaiser 5:30
3LISTENThird Rail / Henry Kaiser 3:30
4LISTENThree Languages / Henry Kaiser 9:30
5LISTENOne of Nature's Mistakes / Henry Kaiser 2:07
6LISTENRoy Rogers / Henry Kaiser 5:02
7LISTENThe Confession / Henry Kaiser 3:57
8LISTENObjects Everyday / Henry Kaiser 2:49
9LISTENWool and Water / Henry Kaiser 4:11
10LISTENThe Trace / Henry Kaiser 2:53
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About Fred Frith

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Editorial Reviews

In 1979, guitarists Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser made an album titled With Friends Like These... on the Metalanguage label. It was one of the defining documents of the downtown avant-garde scene, a collection of improvised duets on which both players essentially redefined the sound of the guitar, Frith with his physically altered (and sometimes beaten) instruments, and Kaiser with his virtuosic and harmonically adventurous technique. Four years later they reunited to make Who Needs Enemies?, again on Metalanguage, and on this second album they expanded their arsenal to include the Linn drum and sequencer. Metalanguage went belly up not too long after, and until now the only in-print remnant from those two albums was a condensed single-disc package on SST. The Cuneiform reissue improves on the SST item enormously, first of all by including the entirety of both albums, secondly by adding another full album's worth of previously unreleased live material, and thirdly by adding on top of that another half hour of new studio performances. In short, this set offers everything Frith and Kaiser have recorded together, and at mid-price. Absolutely a must for noise fans, skronk hounds, and adventurous guitarheads. Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

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