Fred Frith - Live At The Stone - All Is Always Now

Fred Frith with: Laurie Anderson, Amma Ateria, Sylvie Courvoisier , Nava dunkelman, Shelley Hirsch, Jason Hoopes , Annie Lewandowski, Jessica Lurie, Miya Masaoka, Ikue Mori ,Pauline Oliveros, Else Olsen Storesund, Evan Parker, Gyan Riley Sudhu Tewari, Clara Weil, Theresa Wong ,Nate Wooley 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-CD box set comprising 23 fascinating tracks. 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.