• FREEDOM IS YOUR FRIENDS/SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED (3:42)
• ADVERTISING (0:17)
• SONG AND DANCE (4:05)
• VOID WHERE PROHIBITED/THE UP AND UP (4:50)
• BOYAN'S PROBLEM (3:26)
• IKUE'S SONG (1:00)
• T SQUARE PARK LARK for Frank Zappa (9:15)
• HEY RENÉ (0:17)
• CHAINED TO THE SKYWAY (5:51)
• BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED/NOSTALGIA (3:16)
• WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE for Jimmy Giuffre (5:05)
• FREEDOM IS YOUR FRIENDS II (6:00)
All tracks by Fred Frith
2002, Tzadik, TZ7076 Bruce Ackley: soprano saxophone
Larry Ochs: tenor saxophone, sopranino on track 8
Jon Raskin: baritone saxophone
Steve Adams: alto saxophone
This series of suite-like compositions was written by Fred Frith in the Fall of
1994 while he was living in Big Sur, commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet.
"The determining factor," writes Frith, "was the understanding that Rova wanted
material which they could transform through improvisation. Most of the 'stories,'
therefore, involve some question about what might constitute musical freedom..."
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