Fred Frith - Fremakajo
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Playful, exuberant new band around legendary guitar explorer.
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Fred Frith has been pushing the boundaries between rock, folk, improvisation and contemporary classical music since the 1960s. He often uses the guitar as a sounding board, working the strings with, for example, metal objects, singing bowls and drumsticks. In his new band Fremakajo, he plays bass guitar, as he once did in Henry Cow, Art Bears and Naked City, and viola, with which he was heard on Robert Wyatt's legendary album Rock Bottom. Fremakajo's song-like music was already described as 'playful', 'exuberant' and 'dance music for dark times'.
Fremakajo has a special line-up with accordion, saxophone, bass guitar and drums. The band name is a combination of the first names of the four band members. First of all, Fred Frith himself, who not only collaborated with Brian Eno and John Zorn, but also composed for ensembles such as Asko|Schönberg and Ensemble Modern. The other band members come from the Bay Area around San Francisco: the originally Japanese accordionist and ethnomusicologist Marié Abe, leading saxophonist Kasey Knudsen and the adventurous drummer/percussionist Jordan Glenn.
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Kasey Knudsen saxophones, Fred Frith bass guitar/viola, Marié Abe accordion, Jordan Glenn drums
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Fred Frith has been pushing the boundaries between rock, folk, improvisation and contemporary classical music since the 1960s. He often uses the guitar as a sounding board, working the strings with, for example, metal objects, singing bowls and drumsticks. In his new band Fremakajo, he plays bass guitar, as he once did in Henry Cow, Art Bears and Naked City, and viola, with which he was heard on Robert Wyatt's legendary album Rock Bottom. Fremakajo's song-like music was already described as 'playful', 'exuberant' and 'dance music for dark times'.
Fremakajo has a special line-up with accordion, saxophone, bass guitar and drums. The band name is a combination of the first names of the four band members. First of all, Fred Frith himself, who not only collaborated with Brian Eno and John Zorn, but also composed for ensembles such as Asko|Schönberg and Ensemble Modern. The other band members come from the Bay Area around San Francisco: the originally Japanese accordionist and ethnomusicologist Marié Abe, leading saxophonist Kasey Knudsen and the adventurous drummer/percussionist Jordan Glenn.
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Kasey Knudsen saxophones, Fred Frith bass guitar/viola, Marié Abe accordion, Jordan Glenn drums
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