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Fred Frith at a piano recording session at New, Improved Recording in Oakland, California, September 2006.

Fred Frith appears on over 400 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the Discography of Fred Frith by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier.[1]

Studio albums

Music for Dance

Music for Film

Composer only

Live albums

Composer only

  • Impur (2006, CD, Fred, UK)

Singles

Compilations

Collaborations

With Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser and Aram Shelton

  • Unexpected Twins (2019, CD, Relative Pitch Records, US)

With Noël Akchoté

  • Réel (1996, 10" LP, Rectangle, France)

With Lotte Anker

  • Edge of the Light (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With ARTE Quartett

With Derek Bailey and Antoine Berthiaume

With Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Charles K. Noyes

  • Improvised Music 1981 (1992, CD, MuWorks, US)

With Anne Bourne and John Oswald

  • Dearness (2002, CD, Spool, Canada)

With Anthony Braxton

With Chris Brown

  • Cutter Heads (2007, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With John Butcher

With John Butcher and Theresa Wong

  • Quintillions Green (2016, FLAC, Otoroku, UK)

With Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer and Gianni Gebbia

With Lol Coxhill

With Chris Cutler

With Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio

  • Golden State (2010, LP, Recommended, UK)[b]

With Lesli Dalaba, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt

With Totsuzen Danball

  • Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81 (1982, CT, Floor, Japan)

With Evelyn Davis and Phillip Greenlief

With Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen

  • All is Bright, But it is Not Day (2002, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

With Michel Doneda

  • Fred Frith Michel Doneda (2014, CD, Vand'OEuvre, France)

With Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori

  • Later... (2000, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

With Jean-Pierre Drouet

  • En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (1997, CD, Transes Europeennes, France)

With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis

  • I Dream of You Jumping (2001, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
  • Contretemps etc... (2011, CD, In Situ, France)

With Ensemble Modern

With Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Clara Weil

  • There or Here and That (2020, CD, Eux Saem, France)

With Janet Feder

With Hardy Fox

  • A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth (2018, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)

With Evelyn Glennie

With Barry Guy

  • Backscatter Bright Blue (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With Tim Hodgkinson

Cut Up the Border by Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto

With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill Laswell

  • Meridiem (1998, CD, Materiali Sonori, Italy)

With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto

With Darren Johnston

  • Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (2016, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)

With Darren Johnston Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches Smith

  • Reasons for Moving (2007, CD, Not Two, US)

With Henry Kaiser

With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart

With Hans Koch

  • You are Here (2017, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel

  • Tempted to Smile (2003, CD, Spool, Canada)

With Annie Lewandowski

  • Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (2011, CD, Ninth World)

With René Lussier

With Helen Mirra

  • Kwangsi Quail (2015, LP, Shhpuma, Portugal)

With Ikue Mori

  • A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall (2021, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With Mózg Injectors

  • Sylvan Trail (2019, 12" LP and CD, Mózg, Poland)

With Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton

With Bob Ostertag and John Zorn

With Evan Parker

  • Hello, I Must Be Going (2015, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)

With Francois-Michel Pesenti

With Marc Ribot

  • Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode (1994, CD, Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)

With Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd)

  • Dropera (1991, LP, RecRec, Switzerland)

With Danielle Roger

  • Pas de Deux (2008, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

With Rusconi

  • Live In Europe (2016, CD, Qilin, Germany)

With Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Lucas N. Niggli, Hans Koch and Peter Kowald

  • Nil (1995, CD, Unit Records, Switzerland)

With Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community)

  • Drift (2008, CD, Poise, Germany)

With Sudhu Tewari and Cenk Ergün

  • Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down (2020, Digital, Carrier Records, US)

With Toychestra

With Benjamin Vergara

  • Fanfarrisimo (2019, LP, Tour De Bras, Canada)

With Katharina Weber and Fredy Studer

  • It Rolls (2015, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

With Michel Wintsch, Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin

  • Whisperings (2002, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)

With John Zorn

With John Zorn, Onnyk and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo

  • Ars Longa Dens Brevis (2000, CD, Allelopathy, Japan)

Bands

Henry Cow

Henry Cow / Slapp Happy

Art Bears

Aksak Maboul

Material

Massacre

Skeleton Crew

Duck and Cover

French Frith Kaiser Thompson

Naked City

Death Ambient

  • Death Ambient (1995, CD, Tzadik, US)
  • Synaesthesia (1999, CD, Tzadik, US)
  • Drunken Forest (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet

  • Ayaya Moses (1997, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
  • Upbeat (1999, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)

Maybe Monday

  • Saturn's Finger (1999, CD, Buzz, Netherlands)
  • Digital Wildlife (2002, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
  • Unsquare (2008, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)

Keep the Dog

The Orckestra

  • "Unreleased Orckestra Extract" (3" CD single, 2006, Recommended, UK)
Oakland/Lisboa by MMM Quartet

Cosa Brava

MMM Quartet[c]

  • Live at the Metz' Arsenal (2012, CD, Leo, UK)
  • Oakland/Lisboa (2015, CD, RogueArt, France)

Fred Frith Trio

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Previous Evening was designated "Music for Dance Volume 4" after Accidental was released.
  2. ^ Golden State is an LP-only release; "a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically." – Chris Cutler.[2]
  3. ^ MMM stands for "MillsMusicMafia", with reference to Mills College where Leandre, Frith and Curran teach music.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ramond, Michel; Roussel, Patrice; Vuilleumier, Stephane. "Discography of Fred Frith". New York Downtown Scene and other miscellaneous discographies. Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  2. ^ Cutler, Chris. "CUTLER, CHRIS, THOMAS DIMUZIO, FRED FRITH: Golden State (LP)". ReR Megacorp. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Joelle Leandre/Fred Frith/Alvin Curran/Urs Leimgruber: MMM". Leo Records. Retrieved 17 April 2012.