Fred Frith – Gravity

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Label:	East Side Digital – ESD 80452
Format:	CD , Album, Reissue , Disque Americ
Country:	US
Released:	1990
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Prog Rock

Tracklist

1	The Boy Beats The Rams = Kluk Tluče Berany	4:53
2	Spring Any Day Now	3:05
3	Don't Cry For Me Snare [Snare Drum], Maracas – Chris Cutler	3:28
4	Hands Of The Juggler	5:31
5	Norrgarden Nyvla	2:54
6	Year Of The Monkey Recorder – Frank Wuyts	4:05
7	What A Dilemma Bass [Subliminal] – Tina Curran	3:10
8	Crack In The Concrete	1:24
9	Come Across Drums – Frank Wuyts	2:47
10	Dancing In The Street / My Enemy Is A Bad Man Composed By – Stevenson* Drums [Subliminal] – Hasse Bruniusson Organ – Dave Newhouse	4:39
11	Slap Dance Soprano Saxophone – Tom Scott (2)	2:30
12	A Career In Real Estate	4:39
13	Dancing In Rockville, Maryland	2:46
14	Waking Against Sleep	2:02
15	Terrain	3:46
16	Moeris Dancing	4:58
17	Geistige Nacht	5:15
18	Life At The Top	1:40
19	Oh Wie Schön Ist Panama!	5:00

Companies, etc.

Licensed To – East Side Digital
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – RecRec Genossenschaft
Copyright © – RecRec Genossenschaft
Recorded At – Sunrise Studios
Recorded At – Catch-A-Buzz Studios
Made By – Disque Americ

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Dave Newhouse (tracks: 7 to 13)
Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Marc Hollander (tracks: 7 to 13)
Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Marc Hollander (tracks: 1 to 6)
Bass – Billy Swann (tracks: 8, 10, 11, 13)
Bass, Guitar, Violin, Keyboards – Fred Frith (tracks: 7 to 13)
Bass, Guitar, Violin, Percussion [Extra], Drums – Fred Frith (tracks: 1 to 6)
Composed By – Fred Frith
Cover – Alfreda Benge
Drums – Paul Sears (2) (tracks: 7, 8, 10, 11, 13)
Engineer – Tom Scott (2) (tracks: 7 to 13)
Guitar, Mandolin – Eino Haapala (tracks: 1 to 6)
Handclaps [Clapping] – Veronique Vincent* (tracks: 1 to 6)
Performer [Ten Seconds Of The Real Thing] – 13th St. Puerto Rico Summertime Band (tracks: 1 to 6)
Performer [Whirling], Handclaps [Clapping] – Tina Curran (tracks: 1 to 6)
Photography By [Back Cover] – Tina Curran
Piano, Organ, Accordion – Lars Hollmer (tracks: 1 to 6)
Producer – Fred Frith
Tap Dance [Tap Dancing], Handclaps [Clapping] – Olivia Bruynhooghe (tracks: 1 to 6)
Voice [Final Comments] – Asha Swanson (tracks: 1 to 6)

Notes

Tracks 1 to 13 were initially released in 1980 as Ralph FF 8057 (LP, USA).
Track 14 previously unreleased.
Tracks 15, 16 were initially released on Art Bears' album Hopes And Fears (1978).
Track 17 was initially released on Aksak Maboul album Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits (1979).
Track 18 was initially released on Skeleton Crew LP Learn To Talk (1984).
Track 19 is "fairly recent guitar improvisation".

Recorded August 1979 at Norrgarden Nyvla, Uppsala, Sweden and Sunrise Studios, Switzerland. (1 to 6), November 1979 at Catch-a-Buzz Studio, Rockville, Maryland, USA and January 1980 at Sunrise Studios, Switzerland (7 to 13).
Also heard: Toads, Seals, The Renaissance etc. (1 to 6), Aqsak Maboul backwards, the Dogs of Rockville, Rain on the Roof (7 to 13).
Special services, clandestine operations: Chris Blake, D.J. Perry, David Vorhaus.
Many thanks to the Zamlas, Birgitta Hollmer, Eva John, Etienne, Marc, Veronique, Colleen and the Muffins without whose time and generosity this record would not exist; and to Tina who was an indispensable part of it from the start.
Produced with criticism from T. Curran, M. Hollander, V. Vincent and C. Cutler.

In 1937, Curt Sachs wrote of dance, that it represented "the victory over gravity, over all that weighs down and oppresses, the change of body into spirit, the elevation of creature into creator, the merging with the infinite, the divine" which may not have a whole lot to do with this record, but it seemed like a good place to start.
And in 1980, on moving to an apartment in Loisaida, New York, we found the following written indelibly on the kitchen wall: 'NO APAGUEN EL FUEGO DEL ESPIRITU".

Engelsk es die langage internazionale

© ℗ 1990 RecRec Genossenschaft, Zurich, Switzerland.
Licensed for North America by East Side Digital.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 21561-8045-2 4
Matrix / Runout: DADR 0JRM1<1012>ESD80452

Other Versions (5 of 12)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Gravity (LP, Album)	Ralph Records	FF 8057-L	US	1980
Recently Edited	Gravity (LP, Album, Reissue)	T.E.C. Tones	FF-8057	US	1990
Recently Edited	Gravity (CD, Album, Reissue)	RecRec Music	ReCDec 901	Switzerland	1991
New Submission	Gravity (Cassette, Reissue)	RecRec Music	RecRec 901	Switzerland	1991
Recently Edited	Gravity (CD, Album, Reissue)	RecRec Music	ReCDec 901	Switzerland	1991