Ragged Atlas

by Cosa Brava

Ragged Atlas cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 March 2010
  • Label: Intakt
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:02:26
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Founded by experimental composer Fred Frith, the eclectic ensemble bridges avant-garde jazz improvisation with Eastern European folk melodies. The acoustic instrumentation is pushed into chaotic, progressive rock structures that frequently defy conventional time signatures.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, progressive, melodic, avant-garde, experimental, genre-blending, guitars, female-vocals, diverse, theatrical, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Snake Eating Its Tail (2:13)
  2. Round Dance (3:26)
  3. Pour Albert (4:37)
  4. R. D. Burman (4:20)
  5. Falling Up (for Amanda) (5:39)
  6. Out on the Town with Rusty, 1967 (5:12)
  7. Lucky Thirteen (6:58)
  8. Blimey, Einstein (4:13)
  9. The New World (3:57)
  10. Tall Story (3:50)
  11. For Tom Z茅 (4:49)
  12. A Song About Love (6:24)
  13. Market Day (6:42)

Credits

  • Fred Frith - composer, bass guitar, vocal
  • Matthias Bossi - membranophone percussion, vocal
  • Carla Kihlstedt - harmonica nyckelharpa violin, vocal
  • The Norman Conquest - sampler
  • Zeena Parkins - accordion keyboard others instrument, vocal

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