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Friends & Enemies in Bloomington, MN
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In 1979, guitarists
Fred Frith
and
Henry Kaiser
made an album titled
With Friends Like These...
on the
Metalanguage
label. It was one of the defining documents of the downtown avant-garde scene, a collection of improvised duets on which both players essentially redefined the sound of the guitar,
Frith
with his physically altered (and sometimes beaten) instruments, and
Kaiser
with his virtuosic and harmonically adventurous technique. Four years later they reunited to make
Who Needs Enemies?
, again on
, and on this second album they expanded their arsenal to include the Linn drum and sequencer.
went belly up not too long after, and until now the only in-print remnant from those two albums was a condensed single-disc package on
SST
. The
Cuneiform
reissue improves on the
item enormously, first of all by including the entirety of both albums, secondly by adding another full album's worth of previously unreleased live material, and thirdly by adding on top of that another half hour of new studio performances. In short, this set offers everything
have recorded together, and at mid-price. Absolutely a must for noise fans, skronk hounds, and adventurous guitarheads. ~ Rick Anderson
Fred Frith
and
Henry Kaiser
made an album titled
With Friends Like These...
on the
Metalanguage
label. It was one of the defining documents of the downtown avant-garde scene, a collection of improvised duets on which both players essentially redefined the sound of the guitar,
Frith
with his physically altered (and sometimes beaten) instruments, and
Kaiser
with his virtuosic and harmonically adventurous technique. Four years later they reunited to make
Who Needs Enemies?
, again on
, and on this second album they expanded their arsenal to include the Linn drum and sequencer.
went belly up not too long after, and until now the only in-print remnant from those two albums was a condensed single-disc package on
SST
. The
Cuneiform
reissue improves on the
item enormously, first of all by including the entirety of both albums, secondly by adding another full album's worth of previously unreleased live material, and thirdly by adding on top of that another half hour of new studio performances. In short, this set offers everything
have recorded together, and at mid-price. Absolutely a must for noise fans, skronk hounds, and adventurous guitarheads. ~ Rick Anderson
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