Frith, Fred - Technology of Tears
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RERFRO11
This was originally released in the early 1990s on SST Records as a double album and when it made the original transfer to CD, they lopped off side 4 to make it all fit onto a CD. I always liked this album and it's been unavailable for a long time, so I am very happy to see it again here, but side 4 is STILL missing.... - wait! I have just been informed that side 4 (Propaganda) will be issued in COMPLETE form on a future album! It's a beautiful world...
"Much of Frith's work in the late '80s was oriented towards film and theater scores. The Technology of Tears offers not one but three of Frith's dance-company commissions. Two sides of the double album contain the titular piece, created in 1986 with John Zorn, an occasional scat vocalist and fake-art turntable manipulator Christian Marclay. Although largely a flighty and disjointedly arhythmic effort, parts do coalesce with the arcane logic of Frith's structuralism. The high-strung and disturbing "Jigsaw" (also from '86, with trombonist Jim Staley) ...fill(s) a side."-Trouser Press