# Fred Frith discography

Fred Frith appears on over 400 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the Discography of Fred Frith by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier.

## Studio albums

* Guitar Solos (1974, LP, Caroline, UK)
* Gravity (1980, LP, Ralph, US)
* Speechless (1981, LP, Ralph, US)
* Cheap at Half the Price (1983, LP, Ralph, US)
* Quartets (1994, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
* Clearing (2001, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001 (2002, CD, Fred, UK)
* Eleventh Hour (2005, 2xCD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
* To Sail, to Sail (2008, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Clearing Customs (2011, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* Guitar Solos / Fifty (2024, 2xLP, Week-End Records, Germany)

### Music for Dance

* The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) (1988, 2xLP, RecRec, Switzerland)
* Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) (1996, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
* The Previous Evening (Music for Dance Volume 4) (1997, CD, Recommended, UK)
* Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3) (2002, CD, Fred, UK)
* The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance Volume 5) (2006, CD, Fred, UK)
* Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) (2009, CD, Fred, UK)
* Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (2015, CD, Fred, UK)
* Propaganda (2015, CD, Fred, UK)

### Music for Film

* The Top of His Head (1989, LP, Crammed, Belgium) – original soundtrack to the film The Top of His Head by Peter Mettler
* Step Across the Border (1990, 2xLP, RecRec, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Step Across the Border by Nicolas Humbert [fr] and Werner Penzel [fr]
* Middle of the Moment (1995, CD, RecRec, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
* Eye to Ear (1997, CD, Tzadik, US) – collection of film and theatre music
* Rivers and Tides (2003, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany) – original soundtrack to the film Rivers and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer [de]
* Eye to Ear II (2004, CD, Tzadik, US) – music from Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler, Returning Home by Andy Abrahams Wilson, Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen by Petra Mäussnest, and Sideshow by Kristin Varner
* Eye to Ear III (2010, CD, Tzadik, US) – music from Drei Gegen Troja by Hussi Kutulcan, and Thirst by Deborah Kauffman and Alan Snitow

### Composer only

* Pacifica (1998, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Freedom in Fragments (2002, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Back to Life (2008, CD, Tzadik, US)

## Live albums

* Live in Japan (1982, 2xLP, Recommended, Japan)
* Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986–1996) (1999, CD, I Dischi di Angelica, Italy)
* Impur II (2009, CD, Fred, UK)
* Storytelling (2017, CD, Intuition, Germany)
* All Is Always Now – Live at The Stone (2019, 3xCD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* Woodwork (2019, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)

### Composer only

* Impur (2006, CD, Fred, UK)

## Singles

* "Dancing in the Street" / "What a Dilemma" (1980, 7", Ralph, US) – from Gravity

## Box sets

* Fred and Ralph (1991, 3xCD, RecRec, Switzerland) – Fred Frith releases by Ralph Records
** Gravity (1980, CD, Ralph)
** Speechless (1981, CD, Ralph)
** Cheap at Half the Price (1983, CD, Ralph)
* The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 1: Rocking the Boat (2021, 9xCD, Fred, UK)
** Guitar Solos (2002, CD, Fred)
** Gravity (2002, CD, Fred)
** Cheap at Half the Price (2004, CD, Fred)
** Killing Time (2005, CD, Fred)
** Impur (2006, CD, Fred)
** Middle of the Moment (2004, CD, Fred)
** That House We Lived In (2003, 2xCD, Fred)
** Dropera (1991, CD, RecRec) – bonus CD
* The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 2: Crossing Borders (2021, 9xCD, Fred, UK)
** Live in Japan (2010, CD, Fred)
** Speechless (2003, CD, Fred)
** Prints (2002, CD, Fred)
** Step Across the Border (2003, CD, Fred)
** Impur II (2009, CD, Fred)
** The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred)
** Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds (2005, 2xCD, Fred)
** Helter Skelter (1992, CD, RecRec) – bonus CD (remastered)
* The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 3: Stepping Out (2021, 10xCD, Fred, UK)
** The Technology of Tears (2008, CD, Fred)
** Propaganda (2015, CD, Fred)
** Allies (2004, CD, Fred)
** Accidental (2002, CD, Fred)
** The Previous Evening (1997, CD, Recommended)
** The Happy End Problem (2006, CD, Fred)
** Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (2009, CD, Fred)
** Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (2015, CD, Fred)
** Inimitable – Debates for Ganden [with Amanda Miller] (2020, CD, Fred) – bonus CD (previously unreleased)
** Live in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers [with Tom Cora and Chris Cutler] (2020, CD, Fred) – bonus CD (previously unreleased)

## Collaborations

With Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser and Aram Shelton
* Unexpected Twins (2019, CD, Relative Pitch Records, US)
With Noël Akchoté
* Réel (1996, 10" LP, Rectangle, France)
With Núria Andorrà
* Dancing Like Dust (2023, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Lotte Anker
* Edge of the Light (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With ARTE Quartett
* Still Urban (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* The Big Picture (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Derek Bailey and Antoine Berthiaume
* Soshin (2003, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Charles K. Noyes
* Improvised Music 1981 (1992, CD, MuWorks, US)
With Anne Bourne and John Oswald
* Dearness (2002, CD, Spool, Canada)
With Anthony Braxton
* Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 (2006, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Chris Brown
* Cutter Heads (2007, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Shelley Burgon
* The Life and Behavior (2024, CD, Relative Pitch Records, US)
With John Butcher
* The Natural Order (2014, CD, Northern Spy, US)
With John Butcher and Theresa Wong
* Quintillions Green (2016, FLAC, Otoroku, UK)
With Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer and Gianni Gebbia
* Angels on the Edge of Time (2015, CD, I Dischi di Angelica, Italy)
With Lol Coxhill
* French Gigs (1983, LP, AAA, France)
With Chris Cutler
* Live in Prague and Washington (1983, LP, Recommended, UK) – 1990 CD release retitled Live in Moscow, Prague & Washington
* Live in Trondheim, Berlin & Limoges, Vol. 2 (1994, CD, Recommended, UK)
* 2 Gentlemen in Verona (2000, CD, Recommended, UK)
* The Stone: Issue Two (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
With Chris Cutler and Tom Cora
* Live in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers (2021, CD, Fred, UK)
With Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio
* Golden State (2010, LP, Recommended, UK)
With Lesli Dalaba, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt
* Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt (2003, CD, Accretions, US)
With Totsuzen Danball
* Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81 (1982, CT, Floor, Japan)
With Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen
* All is Bright, But it is Not Day (2002, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Michel Doneda
* Fred Frith Michel Doneda (2014, CD, Vand'OEuvre, France)
With Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori
* Later... (2000, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet
* En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (1997, CD, Transes Europeennes, France)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis
* I Dream of You Jumping (2001, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
* Contretemps etc... (2011, CD, In Situ, France)
With Ensemble Modern
* Traffic Continues (2000, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
With Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
* Something About This Landscape for Ensemble (2023, LP, Sub Rosa, Belgium)
With Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Clara Weil
* There or Here and That (2020, CD, Eux Sæm, France)
With Janet Feder
* Ironic Universe (2006, CD+DVD, Recommended, US)
With Hardy Fox
* A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth (2018, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Evelyn Glennie
* The Sugar Factory (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
With Barry Guy
* Backscatter Bright Blue (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Tim Hodgkinson
* Live Improvisations (1992, CD, Woof, UK)
With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill Laswell
* Meridiem (1998, CD, Materiali Sonori, Italy)
With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto
* Cut Up the Border (2020, CD, RogueArt, France)
With Darren Johnston
* Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (2016, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)
With Darren Johnston Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches Smith
* Reasons for Moving (2007, CD, Not Two, US)
With Henry Kaiser
* With Friends Like These (1979, LP, Metalanguage, US)
* Who Needs Enemies? (1983, LP, Metalanguage, US)
* With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? (1987, CD, SST, US)
* Friends & Enemies (1999, 2xCD, Cuneiform, US)
With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart
* The Compass, Log and Lead (2006, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Hans Koch
* You are Here (2017, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel
* Tempted to Smile (2003, CD, Spool, Canada)
With Annie Lewandowski
* Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (2011, CD, Ninth World)
With René Lussier
* Nous Autres (1987, LP, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Amanda Miller
* Inimitable – Debates for Ganden (2021, CD, Fred, UK)
With Helen Mirra
* Kwangsi Quail (2015, LP, Shhpuma, Portugal)
With Macio Moretti
* Works for Me Should Be the Title (2023, LP, Don't Sit On My Vinyl! / Muzyka z Mózgu, Poland)
With Ikue Mori
* A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall (2021, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Mózg Injectors
* Sylvan Trail (2019, 12" LP and CD, Mózg, Poland)
With Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton
* Voice of America (1982, LP, Rift, US)
With Bob Ostertag and John Zorn
* Attention Span (1990, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Evan Parker
* Hello, I Must Be Going (2015, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Francois-Michel Pesenti
* Helter Skelter (1992, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Marc Ribot
* Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode (1994, CD, Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)
With Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd)
* Dropera (1991, LP, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Danielle Roger
* Pas de Deux (2008, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Rusconi
* Live In Europe (2016, CD, Qilin, Germany)
With Susana Santos Silva
* Laying Demons to Rest (2023, CD, RogueArt, France)
With Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Lucas N. Niggli, Hans Koch and Peter Kowald
* Nil (1995, CD, Unit Records, Switzerland)
With Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community)
* Drift (2008, CD, Poise, Germany)
With Studio Dan
* Rocket Science #1 #5 #8 (2021, CD, ROS, Germany)
With Sudhu Tewari and Cenk Ergün
* Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down (2020, Digital, Carrier Records, US)
With Sudhu Tewari (as Normal)
* Moving Parts (2023, CD, Fo'c'sle Records, US)
With Toychestra
* What Leave Behind (2004, CD, S.K., France)
With Benjamin Vergara
* Fanfarrisimo (2019, LP, Tour De Bras, Canada)
With Katharina Weber and Fredy Studer
* It Rolls (2015, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Michel Wintsch, Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin
* Whisperings (2002, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With John Zorn
* The Art of Memory (1994, CD, Incus, UK)
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 (2004, CD, Tzadik, US)
* The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred, UK)
* Late Works (2010, CD, Tzadik, US)
With John Zorn, Onnyk and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo
* Ars Longa Dens Brevis (2000, CD, Allelopathy, Japan)

## Bands

Henry Cow
* Legend (1973, LP, Virgin, UK)
* Unrest (1974, LP, Virgin, UK)
* Concerts (1976, 2xLP, Caroline, UK)
* Western Culture (1979, LP, Broadcast, UK)
* The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box (1991, 3xCD, East Side Digital, US)
* Henry Cow Box (2006, 7xCD, Recommended, UK)
* Stockholm & Göteborg (2008, CD, Recommended, UK)
* The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (2009, 9xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK)
* The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (2019, 17xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK)
Henry Cow / Slapp Happy
* Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin, UK)
* In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin, UK)
Art Bears
* Hopes and Fears (1978, LP, Recommended, UK)
* Winter Songs (1979, LP, Recommended, UK)
* The World as It Is Today (1981, LP, Recommended, UK)
* The Art Box (2004, 6xCD, Recommended, UK)
Aksak Maboul
* Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits (1980, LP, Crammed, Belgium)
Material
* Memory Serves (1981, LP, Celluloid, France)
* One Down (1982, LP, Celluloid, France)
* Live from Soundscape (1994, CD, DIW, Japan)
Massacre
* Killing Time (1981, LP, Celluloid, France)
* Funny Valentine (1998, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Meltdown (2001, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Lonely Heart (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Love Me Tender (2013, CD, Tzadik, US)
Skeleton Crew
* Learn to Talk (1984, LP, Rift, US / Recommended, Europe)
* The Country of Blinds (1986, LP, Rift, US / Recommended, Europe)
* Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds (1990, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
* Etymology (1997, CD-ROM, Rarefaction, US)
* Free Dirt (Live) (2021, 2xCD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
Duck and Cover
* Rē Records Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1985, LP, Recommended, UK)
French Frith Kaiser Thompson
* Live, Love, Larf & Loaf (1987, LP, Rhino, US)
* Invisible Means (1990, LP, Demon, UK, Windham Hill, US)
Naked City
* Naked City (1990, LP, Elektra/Nonesuch, US)
* Torture Garden (1990, LP, Elektra/Nonesuch, US)
* Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles (1992, CD, Avant, Japan)
* Grand Guignol (1992, CD, Avant, Japan)
* Leng Tch'e (1992, CD, Toy's Factory, Japan)
* Radio (1993, CD, Avant, Japan)
* Absinthe (1993, CD, Avant, Japan)
* Naked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 (2002, CD, Tzadik, US)
Death Ambient
* Death Ambient (1995, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Synaesthesia (1999, CD, Tzadik, US)
* Drunken Forest (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
* Ayaya Moses (1997, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
* Upbeat (1999, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
Maybe Monday
* Saturn's Finger (1999, CD, Buzz, Netherlands)
* Digital Wildlife (2002, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
* Unsquare (2008, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
Keep the Dog
* That House We Lived In (2003, 2xCD, Fred, UK)
The Orckestra
* "Unreleased Orckestra Extract" (3" CD single, 2006, Recommended, UK)
Cosa Brava
* Ragged Atlas (2010, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* The Letter (2012, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* Z Sides (2024, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
MMM Quartet
* Live at the Metz' Arsenal (2012, CD, Leo, UK)
* Oakland/Lisboa (2015, CD, RogueArt, France)
Fred Frith Trio
* Another Day in Fucking Paradise (2016, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* Closer to the Ground (2018, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
* Road (2021, 2xCD, Intakt Records, Switzerland)
Lantskap Logic
* Lantskap Logic (2018, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)
* Hidden Danger Lets Me In (2023, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)

## Footnotes

* ↑ The Previous Evening was designated "Music for Dance Volume 4" after Accidental was released.
* 1 2 A limited edition bonus CD included in the Fred Records Story box set.
* ↑ Golden State is an LP-only release; "a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically." – Chris Cutler.
* ↑ MMM stands for "MillsMusicMafia", with reference to Mills College where Leandre, Frith and Curran teach music.