John Zorn is an American composer,conductor,saxophonist,arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". His avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz,rock,hardcore,classical,contemporary,surf,metal,soundtrack,ambient,and world music. In 2013,Down Beat described Zorn as "one of our most important composers" and in 2020 Rolling Stone noted that "[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream,he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".
Marc Ribot is an American guitarist and composer.
Ikue Mori,also known as Ikue Ile,is a drummer,electronic musician,composer,and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022.
William Winant is an American percussionist.
Painkiller is an avant-garde jazz and grindcore band that formed in 1991. Later albums incorporated elements of ambient and dub.
Massacre was founded in 1980 in New York City by guitarist Fred Frith,bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher as an improvising and experimental rock band. They performed live for just over a year and recorded a studio album,Killing Time (1981). Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 1998 with drummer Charles Hayward,and released four more albums,Funny Valentine (1998),Meltdown (2001),Lonely Heart (2007) and Love Me Tender (2013). The last three albums were recorded live,the first in London,and the others at European festivals between 1999 and 2008.
Naked City is an album by John Zorn,released on Elektra Nonesuch in February 1990. The band assembled by Zorn for the album would later be known as Naked City. The album is characterized by its covers of movie themes and its fusion of various musical genres.
Fred Frith appears on over 400 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.
Death Ambient is an American experimental and ambient music trio comprising Kato Hideki,Ikue Mori,and Fred Frith (guitar). The group was formed by Hideki and Mori in 1995 and recorded three albums:Death Ambient (1995) Synaesthesia (1999),Drunken Forest (2007) with guest Jim Pugliese (percussion).
Eye to Ear is a studio album by English guitarist,composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is a collection of film and theatre music composed and performed by Frith,and was recorded in Germany and the United States between 1992 and 1995. Eye to Ear was Frith's first solo album to be released on John Zorn's Tzadik label.
Clearing is a guitar solo album by English guitarist,composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was Frith's first solo guitar recording since Live in Japan (1982) and his first solo guitar studio recording since his landmark 1974 album Guitar Solos.
Naked City Live is a live album recorded by Naked City in 1989 and released on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2002. All of the songs,with the exception of "Erotico","The Way I Feel" and "Skate Key",were later recorded in the studio for the band's debut album. To date it is the only official live release by the band.
Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer,pianist,and improviser.
Back to Life is a studio album by English guitarist,composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises five classical chamber music pieces composed by Frith between 1993 and 2005,and was performed between 1998 and 2007 by Belgian pianist Daan Vandewalle,United States percussionist William Winant,and the Callithumpian Consort ensemble of the New England Conservatory of Music,conducted by Stephen Drury. The album was released on Tzadik Records' Composer Series in 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.
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 is a live album of improvised music by Fred Frith and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 is a live album of improvised music by Yamataka Eye and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of John Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series. Guitarist Fred Frith also appears on one track.
Xu Feng:John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 1 is a studio album by American composer John Zorn consisting of game pieces. It features improvisations performed by an ensemble of pairs of musicians using the same instruments:Chris Brown and David Slusser on electronics;Fred Frith and John Schott on guitars;and Dave Lombardo and William Winant on drums and percussion. The album is titled after Xu Feng,a Taiwanese actress featured in many martial arts films who appears on the cover art,a still of Raining in the Mountain (1979).
To Sail,to Sail is a studio album of acoustic guitar solos by English guitarist,composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is Frith's first album of acoustic guitar solos and crosses musical borders with 16 tracks of classical,blues,folk and free improvisation. Frith dedicates each track to some of the important figures in his musical life,including Champion Jack Dupree,John Cage,Terry Riley,Daevid Allen,Barre Phillips and Davey Graham. The album was released on Tzadik Records' Key Series in 2008.
The Stone:Issue Two is a 2007 live album of improvised experimental music by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler. It was recorded at The Stone in New York City on 15 December 2006 and was one of four CDs released between 2006 and 2010 by Tzadik Records to raise funds for The Stone. It was Frith and Cutler's fourth collaborative album.
