Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
Studio album by Fred Frith
Released September 2009 (2009-09)
Recorded 2000, 2001, 2007
Genre Experimental music
Length 76:38
Label Fred (UK)
Producer Fred Frith
Fred Frith chronology
Impur II
(2009)
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
(2009)
Eye to Ear III
(2010)
Music for Dance series chronology
The Happy End Problem
(2006)
Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
(2009)
Field Days (The Amanda Loops)
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazzfavorable[1]

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, and is the sixth of a series of Music for Dance albums he made.

Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air consists of three commissions by three choreographers, each sharing, according to Frith, "a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction".[2] "Nowhere" and "Sideshow" were written by Frith for violinist Carla Kihlstedt, and are performed by Frith, Kihlstedt and others. "Thin Air" features Frith, Hande Erdem (violin) and Theresa Wong (cello).

Track listing

All compositions by Fred Frith.[3][4]

  1. "Nowhere" – commissioned by choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton and performed at The Hague in November 2000
    1. "Nowhere to Run" – 5:17
    2. "Nowhere Near" – 3:19
    3. "Nowhere to be Seen" – 3:10
    4. "Nowhere Else" – 1:43
    5. "Nowhere Can Compare" – 2:21
    6. "Getting Nowhere" – 2:27
    7. "Going Nowhere" – 2:25
    8. "Nowhere to Hide" – 3:08
  2. "Sideshow" – commissioned by choreographer and director Peggy Piacenza and performed as part of the Northwest New Works Festival in 2001
    1. "Clearing the Throat" – 3:34
    2. "Show Time" – 7:24
    3. "On Or in the Wing" – 3:13
    4. "Act Two" – 3:31
    5. "Angels With Thirty Faces" – 5:17
    6. "In Which All May Have Been Resolved" – 5:27
    7. "Ghost of BB" – 1:48
    8. "Ms. Mac Drinks and Goes Home" – 1:19
  3. "Thin Air" – commissioned by choreographer Uchizono Donna Norton and performed in New York in October 2007
    1. "Ladders" – 6:52
    2. "Screened" – 1:35
    3. "Plastic" – 3:01
    4. "Running" – 3:51
    5. "Falling" – 3:27
    6. "Fast Feet" – 2:29

Personnel

Recording and production

References

  1. Kelman, John. "Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  2. "Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". ReR USA. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
  3. "Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". SquidCo. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  4. "Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air". Orkhestra International (in French). Retrieved 2009-10-30.

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