Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser - With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?

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Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser
With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?

Album US 1987 on SST Records label
Jazz and Rock (Avant-garde, Free Improvisation)

This maximum-length CD-only release consists of selections from an unreleased live album by Frith and Kaiser (1984) combined with "greatest hits" from their two out-of-print duo albums: "With Friends Like These" (1979) and "Who Needs Enemies?" (1983). Most all of this music was improvised by one method or another. Tracks 3,4,5,7,8,12,14,15,16 were recorded without overdubbing. Frith and Kaiser give very special thanks to our engineer, Oliver DiCicco who recorded this music with us in an especially collaborative and creative way. Thanks also to Larry Ochs and Metalanguage Records who originally issued the previously released materials on this CD. Thanks to Greg, Rich and Ray at SST for making this CD possible.

Musicians

	Fred Frith g, *1949 US music by, producer, guitar, bass, violin, keyboards, voice, marimba, drums, linn, album by
	Henry Kaiser g, eg, *1952 US music by, producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, linn, album by
	Ed Rogers artwork by, drawings
	Michelle Phillips voc, key, *1944 US artwork by, typography

Producers

David Greenberger artwork by, cover art & layout

Oliver DiCicco engineer

Phil Brown mastered by

Michael Conen photography

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	The Trace	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	2:52
2	Three Languages	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	9:27
3	Love In Hell	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	5:34
4	Twisted Memories Give Way To The Angry Pleasant	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	3:46
5	One Of Nature's Mistakes	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	2:07
6	Roy Rogers	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	5:01
7	It Sings	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	5:39
8	Drowsy Maggie	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	4:33
9	The Kirghiz Light	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	4:55
10	The Golden Eighties	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	5:46
11	Objects Everyday	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	3:06
12	The Changing Of Names	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	5:44
13	It Moves...	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	2:01
14	One-Eyed Theater	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	4:35
15	Dog Puppet Born Out Of A Sock	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	2:07
16	Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues	Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser	3:33

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