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 Fred 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 24 November 2015.
  2. "Clearing Customs". Intakt Records. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  3. "Fred Frith". Mills College. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  4. Kager, Reinhard. Clearing Customs liner notes.
  5. "Clearing Customs". Discogs. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
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