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Helter Skelter (Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti album)

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for two sopranos, one contralto and a large electric ensemble. Their style of playing and abilities varied considerably, but Frith found that this was what contributed to the success of the project. He said, "Somehow all their personalities infected the kind of music we ended up making together." To
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they "sketch a broad canvas of despair and hope, an urban maelstrom with moments of pure beauty peering through the shards of electroacoustic reality." Jones added that "Listening to is like a ride on a subway and a stroll through a bustling market while listening to music on a walkman: striated
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fragments upon fragments leak through, from Eastern European jigs and dances …, samples of street life, radio broadcasts, plaintive chords arising from the horns, a soprano singer launching into Catalani's
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was billed as an "operatic tragedy", and was first performed in December 1990 at Theatre Toursky in Marseille. Later the work was also performed in
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and François-Michel Pesenti. It was their first collaborative album and was recorded in
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Plunderphonics, 'pataphysics & pop mechanics: an introduction to musique actuelle
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Plunderphonics, 'pataphysics & pop mechanics: an introduction to musique actuelle
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add to the mix, Frith also encouraged them to create and play homemade instruments.
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In 1990, English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor
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1992 studio album by Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti
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Jean-Christophe Ville – 1-string banjo, melodica, chains, food
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Recorded February 1992 by Christian Noêl at Studio Cactus,
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using additional material taken from concert performances.
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Didier Roth – home-made instruments, tapes, radio, lungs
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Denis Cabacho – metal percussions, harmonica, newspapers
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Digital editing by Andy Fuchs at Silent Movie Music,
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using additional material taken from performances in
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Studio album
Fred Frith
Marseille
Genre
Experimental
free jazz
French
Label
RecRec
Producer
Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Live Improvisations
Quartets
rock opera
Fred Frith
Marseille
libretto
Jean-Marc Montera
Fred Frith
Marseille
rock opera
Zagreb
Hamburg
St. Brieuc
Paris
Fred Frith
Jean-Marc Montera
Munich

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