Traffic Continues

by Fred Frith

Traffic Continues cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Winter & Winter
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:04:11
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The avant-garde guitarist and composer collaborates with the Ensemble Modern to deliver a sprawling, highly ambitious suite dedicated to the memory of Tom Cora. 'Traffic Continues' navigates the complex intersection between conducted orchestral music and unpredictable free improvisation. Frith's jagged guitar interventions continuously disrupt and reshape the ensemble's sophisticated chamber-jazz structures.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, avant-garde, improvisation, ensemble, complex, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Traffic Continues: Inadvertent Introduction (0:53)
  2. Traffic Continues: First Riddle (2:30)
  3. Traffic Continues: Traffic II (4:25)
  4. Traffic Continues: Third Riddle (2:13)
  5. Traffic Continues: Lourdement Gai (1:06)
  6. Traffic Continues: Traffic III / Traffic I (2:17)
  7. Traffic Continues: Freeway / Shadow of a Tree on Sand (5:28)
  8. Traffic Continues: Fragile Finale (9:55)
  9. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Introduction: Limbo (1:55)
  10. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Adage a / At Your Earliest Hesitation (4:45)
  11. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Gyrate / Adage B (3:25)
  12. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Not If I See You First (1:17)
  13. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Any Other World (1:27)
  14. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): A Good Top Tongue (0:16)
  15. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Nose at Nose (0:56)
  16. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Will Cast Some Light On (1:32)
  17. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Adage D / Neither Fire nor Place (0:46)
  18. Tr: Monkey Lens Dipthong String (3:33)
  19. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): Howdywhoola (0:17)
  20. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): No Convenient Time (3:30)
  21. Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora): One Never Knows Do One? / Adage Coda / Long Fade (11:34)

Credits

  • Ensemble Modern - primary artist
  • Ikue Mori - primary artist, drum machine [drum machines]
  • Zeena Parkins - primary artist, harp, electric harp
  • Heinz Huber - accordion
  • Noriko Shimada - bassoon, contrabassoon
  • Michael Kasper - cello
  • Roland Diry - clarinet
  • Franck Ollu - conductor, horns

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