Traffic Continues

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Traffic Continues
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 14, 2000 (2000-03-14)
RecordedDecember 14–17, 1998
Das TAT, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt
Genre Contemporary classical music, Jazz
Length64:00
Label Winter & Winter 910 044
Producer Stefan Winter
Fred Frith chronology
Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire
(1999)
Traffic Continues
(2000)
2 Gentlemen in Verona
(2000)

Traffic Continues is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith featuring the Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, which was released on the Winter & Winter label. [1] The album features a suite dedicated to cellist Tom Cora built around samples of his playing from Etymology (Rarefaction, 1997).

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Reception

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In his review for AllMusic, Dave Lynch called the album "one of the strongest statements of Frith's career, a finely balanced work that contains concert hall and street sensibilities in equal measure". [2] PopMatters observed "this is adventurous and often heady music that is not for all tastes. But then, it’s not really meant to be either since this is music that sets out to challenge what is accepted as much as what is acceptable". [4] The All About Jazz review noted "Traffic Continues is a fine and noteworthy edition to Fred Frith’s extensive catalog and ongoing legacy. Besides possessing a remarkably individualistic voice as a powerful and quite influential technician, Frith’s perceptive intellect shines forth on this multifaceted and curiously interesting recording". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Fred Frith

Traffic Continues

  1. "Inadvertent Introduction" – 0:53
  2. "First Riddle" – 2:30
  3. "Traffic II" – 4:25
  4. "Third Riddle" – 2:13
  5. "Lourdement Gai" – 1:06
  6. "Traffic III/Traffic I" – 2:17
  7. "Freeway/Shadow of a Tree on Sand" – 5:28
  8. "Fragile Finale" – 9:55

Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora)

  1. "Introduction/Limbo" – 1:55
  2. Adage A/At Your Earliest" – 4:45
  3. "Gyrate/Adage B" – 3:25
  4. "Not If I See You First" – 1:17
  5. "Any Other World" – 1:27
  6. "A Good Top Tongue" – 0:16
  7. "Nose at Nose" – 0:56
  8. "Will Cast Some Light On" – 1:32
  9. "Adage D/Neither Fire Nor Place" – 0:45
  10. "Monkey Lens Dipthong String" – 3:33
  11. "Howdywhoola" – 0:17
  12. "No Convenient Time" – 3:30
  13. "One Never Knows Do One?/Adage Coda/Long Fade" – 11:34

Personnel

Ensemble Modern

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