Fred Frith - Guitar Solos [ESD]

If one had to pick a single truly essential album of Fred Frith's solo guitar work, it would probably have to be the Live in Japan box set. That box being long out of print, however, the runner-up for that honor -- and a very close runner-up it is -- would be this CD compilation of studio work from the 1970s and 1980s. It consists of the entirety of Frith's Guitar Solos album from 1974, along with his contributions to the various-artist collections Guitar Solos 2 and Guitar Solos 3 and five newer tracks taken from his performance at the Noise New York festival in 1988. Read More