(Fusion, Avant-Garde, Improvisation) Keep the Dog (Fred Frith, Rene Lussier, Zeena Parkins etc) - That House We Lived In (2CD) - 2001, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

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Credits
Accordion, Harp [Electric], Piano, Synthesizer, Voice - Zeena Parkins
Drums, Performer [Found Objects], Melodica, Voice - Charles Hayward
Guitar - Renй Lussier
Guitar, Bass, Violin, Voice, Composed By, Producer - Fred Frith
Recorded By, Mixed By [Live] - Claudia Engelhart
Sampler - Bob Ostertag
Saxophone [Alto, Baritone], Flute, Performer [Guimbarde], Voice - Jean Derome
Notes
Recorded live to DAT 1991 at:
Theater Am Kornmarkt, Bregenz, Austria
Elizabethenbьhne, Salzburg, Austria
Kulturzentrum Wolkenstein, Stainach, Austria
Bahnhof Langendreer, Bochum, Germany
Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany
Manufaktur, Shondorf, Germany
Teatro Dada, Castelfranco Emilia, Italy
Shocking Club, Milano, Italy
Verona, Italy
//
A REVIEW FROM CLOUDANDCLOCKS.NET :
Fred Frith
Keep The Dog
(Fred Records/ReR)
Guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, composer Fred Frith surely needs no introduction. Starting with the first Henry Cow album, thirty years ago, he has travelled genres and - later - Continents. Just to mention a few experiences, we can recall Art Bears, Skeleton Crew, Massacre, his collaborations with Material and John Zorn, his duo projects with Chris Cutler and Henry Kaiser, his numerous solo records, his Guitar Quartet, his improvising work in very different contexts, his teaching activity and so on. An easy-to-envy position, where his catalogue is engaged in a friendly competition with his many new releases on a number of labels. But this can make life difficult for somebody who wants to know more but finds him/herself paralyzed by too much product.
A problem that in a way is only made worse by his new personal label, Fred Records, which is releasing some new titles and quite a few of his past albums that in many ways we could consider to be his "classic" releases. But some of those releases could help newcomers solve their dilemma: they could start with Guitar Solos ('74), a work whose exploratory nature remains largely intact; add the easy to enjoy Gravity ('80), in my opinion quite superior (cause of Zamla?) to the later (and also re-released) Speechless; and the almost-anthology of Step Across The Border ('91), to which I'd add the soon-to-be re-released Cheap At Half The Price ('83), with its nice songs. And if a double CD doesn't look like too much of a good thing, we could also add Keep The Dog: an album which presents live and unreleased versions of some of his compositions as played by a beautiful line-up, and which many long-time Frith admirers had waited for for quite some time.
Keep The Dog was the name of the group that Frith assembled at the end of the eighties in order to play live a part of his vast repertoire - improvisation included, of course. Since the versions that appear on this CD are from 1991 (the recordings were made in Austria, Germany and Italy) it's only natural that the sextet plays the material with a freshness, assurance and creativity which tell of a long work together. (Here we have to shed a tear to the disappearance of a circuit - and of an audience? These are not performances one gets after a week of rehearsals leading to a "prestigious premiere"...)
We have two excellent Canadian players: Jean Derome and Renй Lussier, the former on saxophones and flute, the latter on guitar and - sometimes - on bass, an instruments which is mostly played by Frith himself - he also plays violin, guitar and also sings. Very good keyboards, accordion, electric harp and - when the venue offered one - piano by Zeena Parkins. A limpid rhythm framework is offered by Charles Hayward, while Bob Ostertag's sampler is often indispensable but not always easy to hear.
The repertory comes from everywhere: there is Bones by Massacre; Foot In Hole off The Country Of Blinds, Skeleton Crew's second album, in a quite longer version; three tracks - Walking Song, Some Clouds Do and Instant Party - come from the aforementioned Cheap At Half The Price; The Trace is from Who Needs Enemies?, the second duo album recorded with Henry Kaiser; the famous Norrgеrden Nyvla and Year Of The Monkey are obviously from Gravity. I also liked Suspended, for piano, flute and sampler. Time has been kind to these melodies and arrangements, which now sound "classic". Taking for granted the fact that Lussier is an excellent guitarist, I would have liked to hear a bit more Frith on guitar, since in my opinion his style and timbre add a lot of personality to the whole (isn't it also true of his violin?).
Only a couple of criticisms. In the liner notes Frith writes about wanting to present as much as possible of the repertoire "within the time constraints of the format"; which is a very funny statements, since this double CD could be one hour longer before reaching the maximum limit that's technically possible; why not add other pieces, then? Or, maybe, cut some tracks, so as to make a single CD more affordable to newcomers? The other point is quite more subjective, and deals with the drummer or, better said, the use of the drums. I'll be clear: Charles Hayward is one of my favourite drummers. But if his clear sense of time had a certain function in the "fuzzy" atmosphere of This Heat and Camberwell Now, here - where the parts are very clearly stated, and also due to the hi-hat's high placing in the mix - it sometimes appears like the aural equivalent of the "you are here" sign.
-- Beppe Colli