Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air | ||||
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Released | September 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2000, 2001, 2007 | |||
Studio | Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland, California | |||
Genre | Experimental music | |||
Length | 76:38 | |||
Label | Fred (UK) | |||
Producer | Fred Frith | |||
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Music for Dance series chronology | ||||
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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".[1] "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).
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | [2] |
In a review for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the album a "genre-busting disc that catholically references a variety of styles, but ultimately transcends all of its sources." He noted that "even when he's being lyrical... Frith skews his music to the left of center; distinctly personal even when eminently hummable."[2]
Exposé Online's Peter Thelen praised "Thin Air," stating that although it "encompasses what is easily the most sparse and avant-garde music" of the three works, "some of the most interesting and enjoyable sounds on the disc are found herewithin."[3]
Writing for The Squid's Ear, Massimo Ricci commented: "The large majority of this album is enough to let us affirm that, in the age of polluted silence, we still need this man's unsurpassed intuitions like oxygen."[4]
All compositions by Fred Frith.[5][6]