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Frith Discography of CDs
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Invisible Means CD (1990) (Import) Reissue; Remastered; Digipak; Australia
 $17.09 
Underpinning the whole album is the extraordinary level of their musicianship. But Thompson does contribute a stunning tune to close out the set, the chilling "Killing Jar," and the ensemble playing is never less than inspired; even in its lesser moments, Invisible Means is worth a spin just to hear these supremely gifted musicians bring out the best in each other. The second meeting from this left-of-the-dial supergroup -- Fairport Convention founder and all-around guitar genius Richard Thompson, avant-garde guitar visionary Henry Kaiser, Henry Cow founder and avant/progressive noise advocate Fred Frith, and former Captain Beefheart percussionist John French -- is longer, calmer, and a bit easier to digest than their first collaboration, Live, Love, Larf & Loaf, but it lacks a bit of the playful wit and high spirits that made the previous set so much fun. Together John French, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser and Richard Thompson conjure up a heady mix, covering a bewildering variety of genres, from Folk and R&B to avant-garde and comic opera. By the way, despite the fact this album was originally released by Windam Hill, there is nothing remotely new age about Invisible Means. ~ Mark Deming
2008 digitally remastered edition of the quartet's sophomore album featuring one bonus live track. While there are a handful of obvious jokes on board -- most notably Thompson's mock operatic "March of the Cosmetic Surgeons" and French's "Now That I Am Dead" (in which a deceased musician discovers death has been a boon for his career) -- there are also a surprising number of John French's intelligent but unexpectedly conventional-sounding pop tunes (most notably "To the Rain" and "The Evening News"), and the contributions from Kaiser and Frith stand out more dramatically as their own work on this album, rather than melding into a collective whole (if Live, Love, Larf & Loaf didn't always achieve a stylistic unity, it was a good bit more cohesive than this session). Invisible Means was the second oddball masterpiece from four of the world's finest experimental master musicians, originally released in 1990.
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Live Love Larf & Loaf CD (2008) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
$17.35
2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of this collaboration album featuring four previously unreleased live bonus tracks. The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class
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Frith albums Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Frith CD discography Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Richard Thompson | Richard Thompson, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Richard & Linda Thompson, Sandy Denny, Bonnie Raitt, John Martyn, Judith Owen, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson | | John French | French, Kaiser, Thompson, Fapardokly, French / Frith / Kaiser / Thompson, Richard Thompson |
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