Fred Frith discography


Fred Frith appears on over 600 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.

Studio albums

Guitar Solos Gravity Speechless Cheap at Half the Price Quartets Clearing Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001 Eleventh Hour To Sail, to Sail Clearing Customs

Music for Dance

The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) The Previous Evening (Music for Dance Volume 4) Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3) The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance Volume 5) Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) Field Days (The Amanda Loops)

Music for Film

The Top of His Head – original soundtrack to the film The Top of His Head by Peter MettlerStep Across the Border – original soundtrack to the film Step Across the Border by and Middle of [the Moment (soundtrack)|Middle of the Moment] – original soundtrack to the film Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner PenzelEye to Ear – collection of film and theatre musicRivers and Tides – original soundtrack to the film Rivers and Tides by Eye to Ear II – music from Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler, Returning Home by Andy Abrahams Wilson, Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen by Petra Mäussnest, and Sideshow by Kristin VarnerEye to Ear III – music from Drei Gegen Troja by Hussi Kutulcan, and Thirst by Deborah Kauffman and Alan Snitow

Composer only

Pacifica Freedom in Fragments

Live albums

Live in Japan Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986–1996) Impur II Storytelling All Is Always Now – Live at The Stone

Composer only

Singles

Box sets

Fred and Ralph – Fred Frith releases by Ralph Records

Collaborations

With Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser and Aram SheltonUnexpected Twins
With Noël AkchotéRéel
With Núria AndorràDancing Like Dust
With Lotte AnkerEdge of the Light
With ARTE QuartettStill Urban The Big Picture
With Derek Bailey and Antoine BerthiaumeSoshin
With Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Charles K. NoyesImprovised Music 1981
With Anne Bourne and John OswaldDearness
With Anthony BraxtonDuo (Victoriaville) 2005
With Chris BrownCutter Heads
With Shelley BurgonThe Life and Behavior
With John ButcherThe Natural Order
With John Butcher and Theresa WongQuintillions Green
With Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer and Gianni GebbiaAngels on the Edge of Time
With Lol CoxhillFrench Gigs
With Chris CutlerLive in Prague and Washington – 1990 CD release retitled Live in Moscow, Prague & WashingtonLive in Trondheim, Berlin & Limoges, Vol. 2 2 Gentlemen in Verona The Stone: Issue Two
With Chris Cutler and Tom CoraLive in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers
With Chris Cutler and Thomas DimuzioGolden State
With Lesli Dalaba, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla KihlstedtDalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt
With Totsuzen DanballLive at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81
With Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles BoisenAll is Bright, But it is Not Day
With Michel DonedaFred Frith Michel Doneda
With Mark Dresser and Ikue MoriLater...
With Jean-Pierre DrouetEn Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis SclavisI Dream of You Jumping Contretemps etc...
With Ensemble ModernTraffic Continues
With Ensemble Musiques NouvellesSomething About This Landscape for Ensemble
With Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Clara WeilThere or Here and That
With Janet FederIronic Universe
With Hardy FoxA Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth
With Evelyn GlennieThe Sugar Factory
With the Gravity BandFred Frith and the Gravity Band
With Barry GuyBackscatter Bright Blue
With Tim HodgkinsonLive Improvisations
With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill LaswellMeridiem
With Nicolas Humbert and Marc ParisottoCut Up the Border
With Darren JohnstonEverybody's Somebody's Nobody
With Darren Johnston Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches SmithReasons for Moving
With Henry KaiserWith Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies? With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? Friends & Enemies
With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie WishartThe Compass, Log and Lead
With Hans KochYou are Here
With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan SegelTempted to Smile
With Annie LewandowskiLong as in Short, Walk as in Run
With René LussierNous Autres
With Amanda MillerInimitable – Debates for Ganden
With Helen MirraKwangsi Quail
With Macio MorettiWorks for Me Should Be the Title
With Ikue MoriA Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
With Mózg InjectorsSylvan Trail
With Bob Ostertag and Phil MintonVoice of America
With Bob Ostertag and John ZornAttention Span
With Evan ParkerHello, I Must Be Going
With Francois-Michel PesentiHelter Skelter
With Mariá PortugalMatter
With Marc RibotSubsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode
With Ferdinand Richard Dropera
With Danielle RogerPas de Deux
With RusconiLive In Europe
With Susana Santos SilvaLaying Demons to Rest
With Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Lucas N. Niggli, Hans Koch and Peter KowaldNil
With Sonargemeinschaft Drift
With Studio DanRocket Science #1 #5 #8
With Sudhu Tewari and Cenk ErgünLock Me Up, Lock Me Down
With Sudhu Tewari Moving Parts
With ToychestraWhat Leave Behind
With Benjamin VergaraFanfarrisimo
With Katharina Weber and Fredy StuderIt Rolls
With Michel Wintsch, Franziska Baumann and Bernard TrontinWhisperings
With John ZornThe Art of Memory 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 The Art of Memory II Late Works
With John Zorn, Onnyk and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo
  • ''Ars Longa Dens Brevis''

Bands

Henry CowLegend Unrest Concerts Western Culture The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box Henry Cow Box Stockholm & Göteborg The 40th Anniversary [Henry Cow Box Set] The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow
Henry Cow / Slapp HappyDesperate Straights In Praise of Learning
Art BearsHopes and Fears Winter Songs The World as It Is Today The Art Box
Aksak MaboulUn Peu de l'Âme des Bandits
MaterialMemory Serves One Down Live from Soundscape
MassacreKilling Time Funny Valentine Meltdown Lonely Heart Love Me Tender
Skeleton CrewLearn to Talk The Country of Blinds Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds Etymology Free Dirt (Live)
Duck and CoverRē Records Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2
French Frith Kaiser ThompsonLive, Love, Larf & Loaf Invisible Means
Naked CityNaked City Torture Garden Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles Grand Guignol Leng Tch'e Radio Absinthe Naked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989
Death AmbientDeath Ambient Synaesthesia Drunken Forest
Fred Frith Guitar QuartetAyaya Moses Upbeat
Maybe MondaySaturn's Finger Digital Wildlife Unsquare
Keep the DogThat House We Lived In
The Orckestra
  • "Unreleased Orckestra Extract"
Cosa BravaRagged Atlas The Letter Z Sides
MMM QuartetLive at the Metz' Arsenal Oakland/Lisboa
Fred Frith TrioAnother Day in Fucking Paradise Closer to the Ground Road
Lantskap LogicLantskap Logic
  • ''Hidden Danger Lets Me In''