dearness, by Fred Frith Anne Bourne John Oswald

dearness

by Fred Frith Anne Bourne John Oswald

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1.	A walk is an adventure 38:40	info
2.	Three hundred ears and an ocean 02:00	info
3.	Lower flower 05:10	info
4.	'5' with guests Owen Pallett and Wilbert De Joode 17:28	info	buy track

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"...While Frith taps and scrapes his strings and Oswald swerves between textures, Bourne sings, sighs and bows to incite an initial calm. Frith responds with spectral slide work and Oswald with otherworldly cries and whispers. For the remainder, it is Bourne, with gambits ranging from an agitated arco motif to plaintive vocalisations, who triggers transitions in this sprawling soundscape.

Still, Frith and Oswald merit equal credit for moving the music along with carefully accumulated and overlaid details. Both occasionally relegate themselves to the background, letting a timbre serve as a momentary template. When they step to the foreground, it is done cleanly, with a clear bead on the open space they seek to fill, if only partially. To her credit, Bourne doesn't flinch when Frith and/or Oswald unleash their furries, but also dives into the breach. All three musicians come across as keen to blend with each other throughout the performance, even at its rawest, noisiest moments. Subsequently, the main event is as well rounded as its structure is elusive. ."

—Bill Shoemaker, The Wire

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released August 4, 1998

Rivoli 1998: Fred Frith guitars Anne Bourne cello /voice John Oswald sax

recorded by Phil Strong
mastered by Myles Boisen Headless Buddha Mastering Labs Oakland CA

Distribution Daniel Kernohan Spool

Bonus Track with download '5'
Music Gallery 2002: trio with guests Owen Pallett and Wilbert de Joode
Archive recording by John Gzowski (not yet mastered)
AD David Dacks

Producers Ron Gaskin and Anne Bourne

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Anne Bourne

Artist composer improvises emergent streams of sonics, field recordings and text, for spatial installation in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and all living beings. Anne explores themes of equanimity, translation, microtonal sound, listening, walking as embodied sonic archiving, collective creative expression, and composes in attunement to the wave patterns of water. ... more

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