Clearing Customs

Clearing Customs is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith.[2] It is based on a week of recordings and performances in November and December 2007 at a New Jazz Meeting at SWR, a radio station in southwest Germany. Two hour-long national broadcasts were made.[3] The album was released by Intakt Records in February 2011.

Clearing Customs
Studio album by
Fred Frith
ReleasedFebruary 2011 (2011-02)
RecordedNovember–December 2007
StudioSWR studio 1, Baden-Baden and Saarbrücken, Germany
Genre
Length67:50
LabelIntakt
Fred Frith chronology
Eye to Ear III
(2010)		 Clearing Customs
(2011)		 Angels on the Edge of Time
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[1]
External image
SWR New Jazz Meeting featuring Fred Frith – Clearing Customs, November 2007 by Walter Layher

The music is based on a 75-minute composition by Frith, and improvised by all the performers.[2] It uses a "graphic structural model" that links "diverse types of musical events" on a time line.[4] Traditional jazz instruments were used, plus Asian guzheng and tablas, and electronics. Frith drew on English theatre maker Peter Brook's approach of bringing together performers from completely different cultural backgrounds.[4]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Frith.

  1. "Clearing Customs" – 67:50

Source: Discogs[5]

Personnel
  • Fred Frith – guitar, home-made instruments
  • Wu Fei – guzheng
  • Anantha Krishnan – mridangam, tablas
  • Marque Gilmore – drums, electronics
  • Tilman Müller – trumpet
  • Patrice Scanlon – electronics
  • Daniela Cattivelli – electronics

Source: Intakt Records[2]

Sound and artwork

Recorded at SWR studio 1 in Baden-Baden, Germany on November 29, 2007, and in Saarbrücken, Germany on December 1, 2007.

  • Wolfgang Bachner – recording engineer
  • Alfred Habelitz – sound engineer
  • Fred Frith – mixing, liner notes
  • Manfred Seiler – mixing
  • Manfred Seiler – mastering
  • Reinhard Kager – liner notes
  • Heike Liss – cover art
  • Jonas Schoder – graphic design

Source: Intakt Records[2]

References
  1. Jones, Nic. "Clearing Customs". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  2. "Clearing Customs". Intakt Records. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
  3. "Fred Frith". Mills College. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
  4. Kager, Reinhard. Clearing Customs liner notes.
  5. "Clearing Customs". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
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