Title: Step Across the Border (soundtrack)
Content:  Step Across the Border is a soundtrack double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1990 avant-garde documentary film on Frith, Step Across the Border. The album features music from the film performed by Frith and other musicians, and covers ten years of Frith's musical career from 1979 to 1989.
Title: Step Across the Border
Content:  England, the United States and Switzerland, and shows Frith rehearsing, performing, giving interviews and relaxing. Other musicians featured include René Lussier, Iva Bittová, Tom Cora, Tim Hodgkinson, Bob Ostertag and John Zorn. The film won a "Special Mention" at the European Film Award for Best Documentary in 1990. A companion soundtrack album, Step Across the Border was also released by RecRec Music in 1990. In January 2020 Cut Up the Border was released on CD by RogueArt. It is a sound collage created by Humbert and French sound designer, Marc Parisotto from over thirty hours of audio tape that were not used in the film.
Title: Step Across the Border
Content:  Step Across the Border is a 1990 avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel and released in Germany and Switzerland. The film was screened in cinemas in North America, South America, Europe and Japan, and on television in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. It was also released on VHS by RecRec Music (Switzerland) in 1990, and was later released on DVD by Winter & Winter Records (Germany) in 2003. Shot in black and white, the 35mm documentary was filmed between 1988 and 1990 in Japan, Italy, France, 
Title: Step Across the Border
Content: Fred Frith ; René Lussier ; Jean Derome ; Kevin Norton ; Bob Ostertag ; Haco ; Iva Bittová ; Pavel Fajt ; Tom Cora ; Tim Hodgkinson ; John Zorn ; Eitetsu Hayashi ; Joey Baron ; Cyro Baptista ; Arto Lindsay Musicians appearing in the film include:
Title: Step Across the Border (soundtrack)
Content:  All tracks composed by Fred Frith except where stated.
Title: Step Across the Border
Content: Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, Step Across the Border (VHS, RecRec Music, 1990) ; Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, Step Across the Border (DVD, Winter & Winter Records, 2003) 
Title: Step Across the Border
Content:  as accompaniment to many of the "movement" sequences in the film. The recording of the film coincided with the formation and activity of Frith's review band Keep the Dog (1989–1991), and many of the participants of the band appear in the film. There are even a few rare glimpses of the band rehearsing. René Lussier in particular, features prominently and "interviews" Frith about his musical upbringing and approach to music. The title of the film comes from the lyrics of the song "The Border", recorded by Skeleton Crew on their album, The Country of Blinds (1986). A brief "video" of this song also appears in the film.
Title: Step Across the Border (soundtrack)
Content:  Step Across the Border is more than a just a soundtrack. It includes additional tracks, for example, "Drum Factory" and "Candy Machine", that were written for the album by Frith from ambient sounds in the film. Discussing the album, Frith said: It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a CD and put it out as a soundtrack. Apart from anything else, the function, when you listen with the image and when you listen without the image, is very, very different. One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go 
Title: Step Across the Border (soundtrack)
Content: Track 1 – from Skeleton Crew's contribution to the Island of Sanity compilation (1986) ; Tracks 2a, 24 – from Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton's LP Voice of America (1982) ; Track 2b – from Massacre's LP Killing Time (1981) ; Track 10 – from Skeleton Crew's LP The Country of Blinds (1986) ; Track 13 – from Fred Frith's LP Gravity (1980) ; Tracks 17a, 21, 25 – from Fred Frith's LP Cheap at Half the Price (1983) 
Title: Step Across the Border (soundtrack)
Content: In 1991 East Side Digital Records and RecRec Music re-issued Step Across the Border on CD. ; In 2003 Fred Records released a remastered version of Step Across the Border on CD. 

Question: Who was the composer of Step Across the Border?
Answer: Fred Frith.
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Jeremy Webster Frith.