Clearing Customs

2011 release from the British guitarist. Clearing Customs is based on an approximately 75 minute long, graphic structural model by which the most diverse types of musical events are linked together along a time line. A notated instrumental loop which can be heard in different versions in the course of the piece, serves as a thematic filler between these heterogeneous passages. Fred Frith's choice of instruments was in accordance with the classic Jazz criteria: strings, skins, breath and, additionally, circuitry, meaning electronics. Frith follows the lead taken by the concept of the British theatre maker Peter Brook, who tries to integrate artists with completely different cultural experiences into an ensemble. Intakt.