Fred Frith Trio
The Fred Frith Trio is a San Francisco Bay Area based experimental music and free improvising group featuring Fred Frith, Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn. They were formed in Oakland, California in 2013, have released two studio albums and a live album on Intakt Records, and have toured widely across Europe in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. The trio has also performed with guest musicians Susana Santos Silva and Lotte Anker, and visual artist Heike Liss.
Canadian music critic Raul da Gama described the Fred Frith Trio as "[t]hree extravagantly creative musicians employed in making music like we’ve never heard before". DownBeat magazine critic Peter Margasak said they are "a scrappy improvising trio" who deftly revisit many of Frith's musical endeavors in "a gritty, unified attack". Andy Robson wrote in the British monthly, Jazzwise that they "conjure improvised soundscapes that defy definition". Comparisons have been made to Massacre, but Robson said the Fred Frith Trio have a sound that is "beguilingly, more delicately sharing, more teasing and 'thinner'" than that of the New York City trio. Musician and educator Kevin Coultas wrote that the trio is one of Frith's "most superlative" bands since Henry Cow.
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