A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall

by FRED FRITH - IKUE MORI

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1.	Bodaishin 01:07	info	buy track
2.	The Biggest Lie 00:57	info	buy track
3.	Stirred by Wind and Waves 01:23	info	buy track
4.	Nothing to It 05:11	info	buy track
5.	Fushiryō 01:42	info	buy track
6.	The Biggest Idiots 02:11	info	buy track
7.	Nothing at All 03:16	info	buy track
8.	Shōdōka 03:02	info	buy track
9.	Good for What? 02:39	info	buy track
10.	The Same Moon Sometimes Seems to Smile 02:12	info	buy track
11.	Things as They Are 01:56	info	buy track
12.	Hishiryō 03:50	info	buy track
13.	A Thief Breaks into an Empty House 02:17	info	buy track
14.	Now Here 05:17	info	buy track
15.	Samadhi 05:27	info	buy track

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Intakt CD 352

A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall. The title reflects the mood of this duo record of Fred Frith and Ikue Mori – playful, poetic, mysterious and open. The guitarist and the sound-artist have been working together for forty years. Live excerpts from their work are documented on Fred Frith's 3 CD box set Live at the Stone (Intakt CD 320). In January 2015, Frith and Mori met in Germany to record the music for a radio play for Werner Penzel, the filmmaker and longtime friend of Fred Frith, for his film Zen for Nothing. After finishing their work, they used the free studio day to record their first duo album together. Influenced by the film music and inspired by the long friendship 15 pieces were created that are both wonderful sound sculptures and fascinating dialogues. Fred Frith writes: “Air moving through ears and hair and lungs and pores, through songs,and scrapes, and scraps of this, that and the other.” And Ikue Mori writes: “… it was about playing with the everyday noises that arise when cooking, playing ping-pong, and especially when laughing. There is a lot of joy in working with these recordings, interacting with them and making music.”

Reviews: www.intaktrec.ch/rev352.htm

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released February 12, 2021

Fred Frith: Home-made instruments, various toys and objects, electric guitar (on “Nothing to It” and “Now Here”)
Ikue Mori: Laptop electronics

Recorded January 24th, 2015 by Peter Hardt at Jankowski Sound Fabrik, Esslingen. Mixed on August 20th, 2020 by Peter Hardt at Sound Fabrik, except Now Here on March 2nd, 2018 by Peter Hardt at Sound Fabrik. Mastered September 2020 by Myles Boisen at Headless Buddha, Oakland. Cover art: Heike Liss. Cover and graphic design: Fiona Ryan. Photo: Ayako Mogi. Produced by Fred Frith and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller. Published by Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland.

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Fred Frith Oakland, California

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for almost 50 years.
Fred is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater.

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