Guitar Solos

by Fred Frith

Guitar Solos cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1974
  • Label: Caroline
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:52
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Henry Cow guitarist completely redefined the possibilities of the instrument with this staggering, terrifyingly inventive avant-garde solo record. 'Guitar Solos' is an incredibly technical, fiercely experimental masterclass in free improvisation, utilizing prepared guitars to conjure wonderfully complex, deeply dissonant drones and a profoundly ominous, apocalyptic instrumental atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation, instrumental, dissonant, complex, technical, experimental, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Hello Music (1:31)
  2. Glass c/w Steel (5:35)
  3. Ghosts (3:11)
  4. Out of Their Heads (on Locoweed) (8:31)
  5. Not Forgotten (1:55)
  6. Hollow Music (2:43)
  7. Heat c/w Moment (1:42)
  8. No Birds (12:41)

Credits

  • Fred Frith - primary artist, guitar, guitar [prepared], composed by, lacquer cut by
  • David Vorhaus - engineer
  • Pete Norman - lacquer cut by
  • Jack Balchin - liner notes [cryptic comments]
  • Ray Smith - photography by [sleeve photos], design

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