Fred Frith - Norrgarden Nyvla

From Friths 2nd solo album Gravity (1980).

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Music

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• fred
• frith
• henry
• cow
• norrgarden
• nyvla
• gravity
• 1980
• solo
• guitar
• chris
• cutler

[ksjoyjespeace]

wow!!!! What a song!!! But, the ending, where Frith goes: aaaaaaaaaauuugh-eeeaaaaauuuuaa­aahhh!!!!!!!

[DrGonzoOBoogie]

@ksjoyjespeace thats at the very start of the nest song on the cd I own

[Hirudinaceous]

Yep he was the British Zappa! Unfortunately his band Henry Cow got distracted by the radical leftist crap that was trying to make the Soviet Union welcome to walk into Western Europe (even if those playing didn't realise it).

After that it's great to hear this joyous playing of music for it's own sake. Political music is an oxymoron to me. If you want to be political write a book- or even better- don't! All of politics is complete, self-serving crap; Right, Left, or Centre. Realism stupid!

[Hirudinaceous]

Amygdala off Legg End (Henry Cow) and Napoleon from The Science Project (the version without the vocals) are my favourities, but this album sounds great too and perhaps needs a re-release. What I have always struggled with is the long spontaneous, self-indulgent, improvisations. I never managed to get anything but bored by most of them, but to me the composed stuff is brilliant and pretty unique.

[spaceboojum]

Fred Frith has a maniacal joyousness in his music. "Look Mum, I'm playing with their ears!" Inventive doesn't come close to describing this. I totally agree with jameshippiekid - Fred rates better than Zappa or Fripp. This music saved my life.

[crookedmelody1]

@jameshippiekid I am just starting to get into his music, and so far, I agree! completely!

[jameshippiekid]

Fred Frith is an underrated musician, I think he is up there with some of the greats like, Frank Zappa, Mike Patton and John Zorn....

[deoarby]

One of my all time fav albums! What an awesome mix of music!