Accidental (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Accidental
Type = Studio album
Artist = Fred Frith


Background = orange
Released = 2002
Recorded = December 1995 and January 1996
Genre = Experimental rock
Length = 39:25
Label = Fred (UK)
Producer = Fred Frith
Reviews =
*Piero Scaruffi (4/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/frith.html link]
*"Progressive World" (4/5) [http://www.progressiveworld.net/frith2.html link] | Last album = "Freedom in Fragments"
(2002)
This album = "Accidental"
(2002)
Next album = "Prints"
(2002)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Fred Records
Type = studio
Last album = "Gravity"
(2002)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRO 01)
This album = "Accidental"
(2002)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRA 01)
Next album = "Guitar Solos"
(2002)
Fred Frith
(RēR/FRO 02)

"Accidental (Music for Dance volume 3)" is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was the third of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, ["The Previous Evening" (1997), released before "Accidental", was designated "Music for Dance volume 4" after "Accidental" was released.] and was recorded between December 1995 and January 1996 at Studio Jankowski in Stuttgart, Germany. The album was released on CD in March 2002 on Fred Records and was the first release in Frith's archival release program on the record label.

Background

"Accidental" was commissioned in 1995 by the British choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton for the dance piece "Rogue Tool", with funding provided by the British Council through the British/Israeli cultural initiative, BI Arts. "Rogue Tool" was premiered by the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel in February 1996.

Frith constructed the music on "Accidental" using a principle he called "block-melodies" [cite web |url=http://www.fredfrith.com/words.htm |title=Fred Frith interview, June 2003 |work=Fred Frith's homepage |first=Fred |last=Frith |accessdate=2007-02-08 ] and he incorporated random events, or "accidents", into the compositions, including "found sounds" and field recordings, to trigger new patterns. Frith explained the background to the making of the album: [ cite web |url=http://www.artist-shop.com/rer/ |title=Fred Frith/Accidental |work=Chris Cutler's ReR/Recommended |first=Chris |last=Cutler |accessdate=2007-02-08 ]

Bill Tilland of the BBC wrote in a review of this album: [ cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/9nvr/ |title="Accidental" review |work=BBC Music |first=Bill |last=Tilland |accessdate=2007-02-07 ]

Track listing

#"The Tangled Bank" (Frith) – 3:40
#"Hit and Run" (Frith) – 2:57
#"Gatto Nero" (Frith) – 1:33
#"Old Geometry" (Frith) – 2:24
#"Their Blood is Black and Yellow" (Frith) – 4:33
#"In a Heartbeat" (Frith) – 1:15
#"Fooled Again" (Frith) – 5:04
#"Accidental" (Frith) – 3:27
#"Absinthe Memories (for Phil Minton)" (Frith) – 3:00
#"Incoming" (Frith) – 6:20
#"Almighty Home at Last" (Frith) – 5:12

Personnel

*Fred Frith – guitars, violin, keyboards, percussion, samplers, voice

ound

*Extraneous material taken from recordings of demonstrations in New York City and Washington, D.C., and random radio tunings
*Engineered by Peter Hardt
*Edited and mastered by Peter Hardt and Fred Frith, July 2000
*Design and artwork by Tomas Kurth

References

External links

*amg | id = 10:nfivad8k48wn | label = Accidental
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]