Speechless (Fred Frith album)
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| Studio album by Fred Frith | ||||
| Released | 1981 | |||
| Recorded | April 1980, United States July–August 1980, France and Switzerland |
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| Genre | Avant-rock, experimental | |||
| Length | 43:47 | |||
| Label | Ralph | |||
| Producer | Fred Frith, Tina Curran, Etienne Conod, Robert Vogel and Francois Riether | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| BBC Online | favourable |
| Jazz Review | highly recommended |
Speechless is a 1981 solo album by English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith of the group Henry Cow. It was Frith's third solo album, and was originally released in the United States on LP record on The Residents' Ralph record label. It was the second of three solo albums Frith made for the label.
Speechless was recorded in France, Switzerland and the United States, and featured Frith with French Rock in Opposition group Etron Fou Leloublan on the first side of the LP, and Frith's New York City band Massacre on the second. It is mostly a studio album with extracts from a Massacre concert mixed into four of the tracks on side two of the LP.
Speechless has been described as a mixture of folk music, free improvisation, avant-rock and noise. AllMusic said that it is often regarded as one of Frith's best solo albums.
Speechless was the second of a series of three solo albums Frith made for The Residents's record label Ralph Records, the first being Gravity (1980), an avant-garde "dance" record that drew on rhythm and dance from folk music across the world, and the third being Cheap at Half the Price (1983). He had recorded with The Residents in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and appeared on several of their albums.Gravity was well received by music critics.
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