Z Sides

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Z Sides
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Studio album by
Cosa Brava
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2024 (2024-09-23)
RecordedMarch–May 2008, May 2012
Genre
Length46:39
Label Klanggalerie (Austria)
Producer Fred Frith
Cosa Brava chronology
The Letter
(2012)		Z Sides
(2024)

Z Sides is a 2024 studio album by Fred Frith's United States experimental rock group Cosa Brava. It comprises a sound collage of extracts from live mixes of the band's musical improvisations performed on tour between March 2008 and May 2012. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

Z Sides was conceived by The Norman Conquest (aka Norman Teale [3] ), Cosa Brava's sound manipulator who created soundscapes for the group's music, and live mixes during their concerts. [3] Cosa Brava's live songs often contained segments of improvised music, and The Norman Conquest assembled a collection of extracts from these improvisations performed in concerts between March 2008 and their last European tour in May 2012. Using these extracts, Fred Frith and The Norman Conquest built a sound collage to create "an imaginary stand-alone performance" [1] that they called Z Sides. [2]

Reception

Cosa Brava's two previous albums were generally well received by critics, [4] [5] with All About Jazz describing their music as "somewhere between folk, Celtic, modern chamber, Latin, funk, Eastern, and prog-rock". [4] Eyal Hareuveni at salt peanuts* noted that Z Sides is very different from Cosa Brava's two studio albums and their "genre-defying" songs. She wrote, "Z Sides distills and reimagines the infinite musical imagination of Cosa Brava and proves that beauty is indeed an elusive and strange thing." [2] A reviewer at Squidear wrote Z Sides "captures the group's dynamic interplay and remarkable inventiveness". [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cosa Brava

No.TitleLength
1."Vinljubo"6:24
2."Stagraink"2:57
3."Vivial"3:30
4."Zueberi"3:40
5."Genevial"2:21
6."Koegra"2:45
7."Nuregra"5:25
8."Veniena"4:27
9."Bolnunium"2:30
10."Oklanial"3:24
11."Bezuinbonur"5:30
12."Boljana"3:46

Source [1]

Personnel

Source [1]

Recording and production

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Recording locations

Improvisations used on this album were extracted from the following Cosa Brava concerts:

Source [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Klanggalerie (September 23, 2024). Z Sides (CD liner notes). Cosa Brava.
  2. 1 2 3 Hareuveni, Eyal (October 10, 2024). "Cosa Brava: Z Sides". salt peanuts*. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  3. 1 2 Gilbert, Andrew (December 12, 2008). "Every which way Experimentalist Fred Frith's Cosa Brava mixes multiple musical worlds". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. p. G.28. ISSN   0743-1791. ProQuest   405151699.
  4. 1 2 Corroto, Mark (May 1, 2010). "Ragged Atlas". All About Jazz . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Letter". AllMusic . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Z Sides". Squidear. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
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