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| Live album by John Zorn and Fred Frith | ||||
| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1993 | |||
| Venue | New York City | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde | |||
| Label | Incus Records Incus CD 20 | |||
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The Art of Memory is a live album of improvised music by John Zorn and Fred Frith. The album was released on Derek Bailey's Incus Records in 1994.
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated:"This is a revelatory album,and a near matchless collaboration". [1]
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [2] |
All compositions by John Zorn and Fred Frith.
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".
Nick Didkovsky is a composer,guitarist,computer music programmer,and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. He is a former student of Christian Wolff,Pauline Oliveros and Gerald Shapiro.
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.
The Big Gundown is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. It comprises radically reworked covers of tracks by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone.
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).
The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) is a double album by English guitarist,composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the first of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made,and is sometimes subtitled Music for Dance volume 1. It was recorded between June 1986 and April 1987,and released on a double LP and a single CD by RecRec Music (Switzerland),and on a double LP only by SST Records (United States) in 1988. It was re-issued on CD in 2008 by Fred Records (United Kingdom). All the CD releases omit the Propaganda suite (side 4 of the double LP).
Heretic is the third studio album by the band Naked City,used as a soundtrack for the underground S/M film Jeux des Dames Cruelles. The album utilises different combinations of band members in duos and trios with the entire band performing together on only one track "Fire and Ice".
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.
Taboo &Exile is an album by John Zorn. It is the second album to appear in Zorn's Music Romance Series following Music for Children (1998). Three of the tracks on this recording are from Zorn's Masada songbook.
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.
Filmworks XV:Protocols of Zion features a score by John Zorn for a documentary film by Marc Levin. The album was released on Zorn's own label,Tzadik Records,in 2005 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for,Protocols of Zion (2005),a documentary detailing the rise of antisemitism following the September 11 attacks.
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).
Moloch:Book of Angels Volume 6 is an album by Uri Caine performing compositions from John Zorn's second Masada book,"The Book of Angels".
Late Works is a studio album by John Zorn and Fred Frith. It is the fourth collaborative album by the duo,and their first studio album. It was recorded at East Side Sound in New York City on October 16,2009,and was released by Tzadik Records in April 2010.
Lonely Heart is a live album by avant-rock,experimental power trio Massacre,featuring guitarist Fred Frith,bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Charles Hayward. It was recorded at the Festival Sons d'Hiver in Paris,France on January 25,2003,and at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on June 26,2003.
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.
Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 is a 2006 live album of improvised music by Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith. It was recorded on May 20,2005 at the 22nd Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Quebec,Canada,and released in May 2006 by Les Disques Victo,the festival's record label.
Attention Span is a collaborative album by Bob Ostertag,Fred Frith and John Zorn,released in 1990 by RecRec Music.
