Clearing Customs
| Clearing Customs | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 2011 | |||
| Recorded | November–December 2007 | |||
| Studio | SWR studio 1, Baden-Baden and Saarbrücken, Germany | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 67:50 | |||
| Label | Intakt | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |   [1] |
| External image | |
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 SWR New Jazz Meeting featuring Fred Frith – Clearing Customs, November 2007 by Walter Layher |
Clearing Customs is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith.[2] It is based on a week of recordings and performances in November and December 2007 at a New Jazz Meeting at SWR, a radio station in southwest Germany. Two hour-long national broadcasts were made.[3] The album was released by Intakt Records in February 2011.
The music is based on a 75-minute composition by Frith, and improvised by all the performers.[2] It uses a "graphic structural model" that links "diverse types of musical events" on a time line.[4] Traditional jazz instruments were used, plus Asian guzheng and tablas, and electronics. Frith drew on English theatre maker Peter Brook's approach of bringing together performers from completely different cultural backgrounds.[4]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Frith.
- "Clearing Customs" – 67:50
Personnel
- Fred Frith – guitar, home-made instruments
- Wu Fei – guzheng
- Anantha Krishnan – mridangam, tablas
- Marque Gilmore – drums, electronics
- Tilman Müller – trumpet
- Patrice Scanlon – electronics
- Daniela Cattivelli – electronics
Source: Intakt Records[2]
Sound and artwork
Recorded at SWR studio 1 in Baden-Baden, Germany on November 29, 2007, and in Saarbrücken, Germany on December 1, 2007.
- Wolfgang Bachner – recording engineer
- Alfred Habelitz – sound engineer
- Fred Frith – mixing, liner notes
- Manfred Seiler – mixing
- Manfred Seiler – mastering
- Reinhard Kager – liner notes
- Heike Liss – cover art
- Jonas Schoder – graphic design
Source: Intakt Records[2]
References
- ^ Jones, Nic. "Clearing Customs". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ a b c d "Clearing Customs". Intakt Records. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- ^ "Fred Frith". Mills College. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- ^ a b Kager, Reinhard. Clearing Customs liner notes.
- ^ "Clearing Customs". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
External links
- Clearing Customs at Intakt Records
- Clearing Customs reviews at Intakt Records
