Lol Coxhill and Fred Frith FRENCH GIGS 1983 LP/Vinyl FRENCH IMPORT/Henry Cow
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$ 30
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Aug 25, 2021
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May 23, 2021
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NOTE: Also Up For Sale LOL COXHILL Instant Replay 2-LP (1983 - Nato 25/32) - FRENCH IMPORT
LOL COXHILL and FRED FRITH
French Gigs (LP, 1983) A.A.A. A02 Original French Import. Outstanding Condition... And I Can Tell You Why.
The original 1983 French Import LP from Lol Coxhill and Fred Frith (ex-Henry Cow). Excellent package. This has been sitting on my shelf for nearly 40 years and is in outstanding shape. There's a reason for that. While I enjoy difficult improvisation, it's not my "go-to" music when pulling records off the shelf. This album got less attention than most back when I had 6,000 albums. So this album just sat... largely untouched. My indifference is your gain, because this album looks GREAT. As you can see by the pic (on the right front) there IS a minor vinyl dent on front and back, and there's a distributor's "IMPORT" sticker on the back, bottom left corner. The front bottom right corner is only slightly nubbed, but is not worn. There's a close up pic of the cover's white section because there's some minor discoloring, a form of oxidation that belies its age. THE VINYL is VERY clean, shiny, scratch-free and near perfect. But I DID notice a small blemish on side 2 that looks like dust, but doesn't wipe off. Considering how little this LP was ever played (my guess... once/twice), I'm not sure what it could be. Any problem.. just return it. I'm confident you'll be pleased with this one despite these minor byproducts of storage. This is the album's first, original issue.
Side A Reims (25:59)
Side B Limoges 1 (9:13) Poitiers (9:52) Limoges 2 (3:28)
Guitar – Fred Frith Soprano Saxophone – Lol Coxhill
A: Recorded during the "Musiques de Traverses" Festival 1981, at the Maison de la Culture André Malraux, in Reims. B1 & B3: Recorded 26th October 1978, at M.J.C. Aliénor D'Aquitaine in Limoges. B2: Recorded 25th October 1978, at the auditorium Sainte Croix, in Poitiers.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE 4-Star REVIEW Portions of this set come from a short 1978 tour in the period shortly after Fred Frith's longtime progressive rock combo Henry Cow had run out of milk, and talented multi-instrumentalist/composer Frith was stressing out about the insecurities of undertaking a solo career. The entire first side of the album originates a few years later, when the duo reconvened for a surprise gig in Reims. In between, Frith had relocated to New York City and was well under way along the aforementioned path as freelance solo artist. In both cases the playing is superb, the time gap between the performances becoming the type of reality that fades away magically when improvisers of this quality take the stage. Coxhill's tone is like no other soprano saxophonist, other than Sidney Bechet. Both men have the ability to use the small horn as a kind of conjuring wand, bringing to mind an apple tart with one note and a truck scraping the side of the wall with another. Unlike Bechet, Coxhill is comfortable playing in contexts far removed from traditional jazz, although he brings in stylistic assets from this genre such as humor, sentimentality, and swing. Using his tabletop guitar setup, Frith provides a magnificent sort of orchestral accompaniment. He also does well producing the collection, avoiding the temptation to chop up the flowing improvisations in order to come up with an album of meaningless highlights.
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