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Recorded to 24 track analog at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco between December 17th and 21st, 2008.
Cosa Brava is a quintet formed in March 2008 in Oakland, California by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog). Fred Frith's career began as a folk and later rock musician – he co-founded Henry Cow in 1968 – but has since diversified into a number of different genres, from avant-jazz to contemporary classical music. He has written scores for film and dance, and music for orchestras and string quartets. But, like a lot of musicians, the idea of "genre" is not really very interesting to him anyway!
The motivation behind the formation of Cosa Brava arose out of Frith's love of rock music in general and songs in particular. He said, "Over the years I’ve done a lot of improvising, and composed a lot of music on paper. I’ve written for orchestras and string quartets, directed ensembles of improvisers of all descriptions, produced scores for dance and film. I even somehow became a Professor of Composition! But I really miss what you can do with a rock band. I miss developing material through the push and pull of cooperative rehearsals, I miss what happens when you move away from “the parts” and start formulating things with a collective ear, I miss the single-minded commitment to a group identity. The musicians in Cosa Brava can improvise, read scores, AND rock the house. … Like I say, if you pick the right players, chances are the music will take care of itself.”
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ARTISTS
Cosa Brava: Fred Frith (guitar, bass, voice); Carla Kihlstedt (violin, nyckelharpa, bass harmonica, voice); Zeena Parkins (accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice); Matthias Bossi (drums, percussion, sruti box, voice); The Norman Conquest (sound manipulation); Anantha Krishnan (mridangam, tabla) |
TRACKS
1. Snake Eating
Its Tail 2:13
2. Round Dance 3:25
3. Pour Albert 4:36
4. R. D. Burman 4:18
5. Falling Up (for Amanda) 5:38
6. Out on the Town with Rusty, 1967 5:11
7. Lucky Thirteen * 6:58
8. Blimey, Einstein 4:11
9. The New World 3:57
10. Tall Story 3:49
11. For Tom Zé 4:49
12. A Song About Love 6:24
13. Market Day 6:42
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