All Is Always Now (CD)

Details: Between 2006 and 2016, Fred Frith played 80 concerts at New York's unique space for experimental music, The Stone. A selection of his encounters with such powerful and creative personalities as Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, Sylvie Courvoisier, Evan Parker, Nate Wooley has been combined in this 3-album set comprising 23 fascinating tracks. It is a decade-long adventure in improvisation. The musician Theresa Wong writes: "I was struck by the musicality. What I mean by that is: there's this presence of songs and song forms - the music can be harmonic and melodic, there's noise, there's rhythm, a joyfulness, an exploration, a sensuality of sounds, but always underlining that is a musicality that feels to me like songs."

Tracklist:

1. Another Ship Moves in
2. Identity Crisis
3. A Complicated Path
4. Strife and Soil
5. Limited Strike
6. Silver Lining
7. Slipping
8. World of Grief and Doubt
9. Concussion Suit
10. From the Backstretch
11. Shrug at Truth
12. Reasons to Dream
13. What Gets Left Behind
14. Like Animals
15. A Measure of Solace
16. Deter and Degrade
17. Of Finest Silver
18. Veils
19. Held Again
20. Flare
21. Hero of the Space Age
22. Devoted to a Failed Approach
23. Evidence