The Art of Memory II

Live album by Fred Frith & John Zorn

Released

May 2008

Recorded

January 1983 and July 1985

Genre

Length

57:11

Label

Fred FRA 06

Fred Frith & John Zorn chronology

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
(2004)

The Art of Memory II
(2008)

Late Works
(2010)

John Zorn chronology

Zaebos: Book of Angels Volume 11
(2007)

The Art of Memory II
(2008)

Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
(2008)

The Art of Memory II is a live album of improvised experimental rock music by Fred Frith and John Zorn. It was recorded in New York City in January 1983 and July 1985, and was released on Frith's Fred Records label in May 2008. It is the second in a series of two Art of Memory albums recorded by the duo, the first being The Art of Memory, recorded in New York City in late 1993, and released on Derek Bailey's Incus Records label in 1994.

The Art of Memory II, recorded before The Art of Memory and described by Frith as "early 80s weirdness with John Zorn"^[1] marked the beginning of a long and fruitful musical partnership between Frith and Zorn.^[1] The concerts, recorded using a cassette recorder, were "on the borderline between music and chaos"^[1] and featured Frith and Zorn playing a number of unconventional instruments.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Allmusic said "Sometimes they seem to be responding to each other's ideas, other times they're engaged in parallel but unrelated play like two toddlers side by side in a sandbox. Amazingly, there's hardly an uninteresting sound anywhere on this album. Highly recommended to all skronk fans."^[2]

Track listing

All tracks by Fred Frith and John Zorn.

"The Heaven" – 17:37
"The Wood" – 4:43
"The Standard" – 8:46
"The Wheel" – 5:44
"The Painter" – 20:21

Personnel

Fred Frith – home-made instruments, voice, Casio monophonic keyboard
John Zorn – alto saxophone, mouthpieces, duck-calls

Sound

Tracks 1 and 5 were recorded live at P.A.S.S., New York City on 25 January 1983.
Tracks 2, 3 and 4 were recorded live at Roulette, New York City on 27–28 July 1985.
The album was assembled by Fred Frith and Bob Boster from the original cassette recordings at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College in April 1997.

References

1 2 3 Frith, Fred. "Fred Frith homepage". Fred Frith official website. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
1 2 Anderson, R. Allmusic Review, accessed November 12, 2013

External links

Fred Frith

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John Zorn

Solo albums	The Classic Guide to Strategy First Recordings 1973 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9 The Hermetic Organ The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2

Game Pieces	Lacrosse Pool Hockey Archery Cobra John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands Xu Feng Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2

File Card Pieces	Spillane The Bribe Elegy Kristallnacht Godard/Spillane Femina Dictée/Liber Novus Interzone Mount Analogue

Cover albums	Voodoo The Big Gundown News for Lulu More News for Lulu Spy vs Spy

Classical	Redbird The Book of Heads Duras: Duchamp Angelus Novus Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra The String Quartets Cartoon S/M Madness, Love and Mysticism Songs from the Hermetic Theatre Chimeras Magick Mysterium Rituals From Silence to Sorcery The Satyr's Play / Cerberus What Thou Wilt Lemma On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits The Alchemist Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections In the Hall of Mirrors Myth and Mythopoeia

Filmworks	1986-1990 Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill 1990–1995 S&M + More Tears of Ecstasy 1996 Cynical Hysterie Hour 1997 Trembling Before G-d In the Mirror of Maya Deren Secret Lives Three Documentaries Invitation to a Suicide Hiding and Seeking Protocols of Zion Workingman's Death Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls The Treatment The Rain Horse Sholem Aleichem Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum The Last Supper El General The Nobel Prizewinner City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite

Bar Kokhba	Bar Kokhba The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11 Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10

Masada String Trio	The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2 Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16

Music Romance	Music for Children Taboo & Exile The Gift

Hemophiliac	Hemophiliac 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6

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Book of Angels	Astaroth Azazel Malphas Orobas Balan Moloch Asmodeus Volac Xaphan Lucifer Zaebos Stolas Mycale Ipos Baal Haborym Caym Pruflas Abraxas Tap Alastor Adramelech Aguares

Moonchild	Moonchild: Songs Without Words Astronome Six Litanies for Heliogabalus The Crucible Ipsissimus Templars: In Sacred Blood

The Dreamers	The Dreamers O'o A Dreamers Christmas Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14

Alhambra	Alhambra Love Songs In Search of the Miraculous The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days

Tributes and Inspirations	IAO Enigmata Nova Express At the Gates of Paradise Nosferatu Rimbaud A Vision in Blakelight The Concealed Dreamachines Shir Hashirim Psychomagia On Leaves of Grass

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Collaborations	In Memory of Nikki Arane with Eugene Chadbourne Locus Solus Yankees with Derek Bailey & George Lewis Deadly Weapons with Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall & David Toop Ganryu Island with Sato Michihiro The Art of Memory with Fred Frith Zohar with Yamantaka Eye Nani Nani with Yamantaka Eye Harras with Derek Bailey & William Parker Euclid's Nightmare with Bobby Previte Weird Little Boy with Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, William Winant & Chris Cochrane Downtown Lullaby with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and Bobby Previte Prelapse with Prelapse Buck Jam Tonic with Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura Naninani II with Yamantaka Eye The Stone: Issue One with Dave Douglas, Rob Burger, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton & Ben Perowsky The Stone: Issue Three with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson The Art of Memory II with Fred Frith Late Works with Fred Frith "@" with Thurston Moore Sonic Rivers with George Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith

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