Fred Frith
Impur II
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Essentially a pretty great concert by a large 19 strong ensemble with Fred conducting as well as playing. Lots of rhythm, harmony, rock noise, exotic instrumentation, power, complexity and melodic writing, with stretches of chaos, eccentricity and theatre. Totally different, then, from Impur Part I which was a deconstructed, spatialised simultaneity of musical events heard through open windows or by wandering through rooms; Impur Part II was an unannounced performance upon which audience members had to stumble (and then collect their friends - or not).
The recording here was in fact made a little later, by the same people in a different artspace and has been edited and re-mastered by Fred for this release. It fits well in the aesthetic of earlier group records from Fred: Gravity, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog
Release notes
Recorded in concert at RamDam, Lyon on 20th December 1997. Mixed at Tonstudio Jankowski in August 2004 Edited and mastered at Headless Buddha Mastering Labs, Oakland, California, in December 2006
| 1 | Invitation/Invocation | 6:49 | |
| 2 | Affront National | 3:26 | |
| 3 | Dead Sea | 4:06 | |
| 4 | Waiting For God | 1:55 | |
| 5 | Danses Avec Les Rats | 3:32 | |
| 6 | Nueve | 1:39 | |
| 7 | Now We Know | 2:16 | |
| 8 | Gaga-Kun | 1:52 | |
| 9 | Don't Say | 1:15 | |
| 10 | Cuts Up | 1:17 | |
| 11 | Le Sursis | 4:03 | |
| 12 | Ses Habits De Dimanche | 4:47 | |
| 13 | Finger On The Pulse | 2:26 | |
| 14 | La Dernière Valse (Pour Mie) | 4:18 |
- Stéphane Lambert
- Baritone Saxophone [Baritone Sax], Shenai
- Jean-Michel Quoisse
- Bass
- Joël Jorda
- Clarinet [Clarinets]
- Laurent Vichard
- Clarinet [Clarinets]
- Pascal Pariaud
- Clarinet [Clarinets]
- Fred Frith
- Composed By, Producer [Produced By], Conductor [Conducted By], Guitar [Guitar Solo] (12)
- Denis Mariotte
- Drums, Melodica
- Bader Gharzouli
- Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars]
- Gilles Laval
- Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars]
- Ghilem Lacroux
- Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars]
- Guillaume Quemener
- Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars]
- Emmanuel Gilot
- Engineer [Concert Recording]
- Myles Boisen
- Engineer [Editing And Mastering]
- Peter Hardt
- Engineer [Mixing]
- Serge Sana
- Keyboards, Sampler
- Claire Mollard
- Marimba, Percussion
- Cyril Cambon
- Marimba, Percussion
- Stéphane Grosjean
- Marimba, Percussion
- Philippe Madile
- Piano, Synthesizer
- Samuel Chagnard
- Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax]
- Stephen Tissot
- Violin
- Laurent Frick
- Voice, Trumpet
