Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Fred Frith, Lotte Anker and Samuel Duhsler, Cafe Oto London
Weird and wonderful sounds from improvisatory trio
FORMER Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith presents an unusual musical spectacle. He plays guitar flat on his lap, either patting and rubbing its strings with what looks like a clothes brush and an empty tuna tin or with a bow or a towel laid along its length.
He’s accompanied by Lotte Anker from Copenhagen, who plays caustic notes on a rasping soprano saxophone, and drummer Samuel Duhsler. He creates tinny sounds on his cymbals or what resembles the griddle of a barbecue and drums a long chain that he has dropped onto his snares.
The sounds seethe in front of Heike Liss’s fluid, improvised visuals of daybreak, dissolving mists and snowstorms at sea.
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