Middle of the Moment (soundtrack)

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Middle of the Moment
Middle of the Moment cover
Soundtrack by Fred Frith
Released 1995
Recorded North Africa and Europe, early 1990s
Genre Experimental rock, Electronic music
Length 1:00:40
Label RecRec Music (Switzerland)
Producer(s) Fred Frith
Professional reviews
Fred Frith chronology
Quartets
(1994)		 Middle of the Moment
(1995)		 Allies
(1996)


Re-issues
Fred Records re-issue (2004).
Fred Records re-issue (2004).

Middle of the Moment is a soundtrack by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1995 documentary film, Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.

The film was made over a period of three years in the early 1990s, following the tuareg in North Africa and an avant garde circus troupe, Cirque O in Europe. The music comprises Frith compositions and sound collages drawn from field recordings of ambient sounds, conversations and indigenous music.

Frith describes how he created the soundtrack: [1]

“ I 'travelled' through this material, formed my impressions, and created a 'sound-movie' from them, using a process analogous to that of editing a film. [...] My idea is more to create a parallel narrative, free to draw on music that wasn't in the film but was part of the process of making it. ”

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Le Jour Se Leve" Frith – 6:26
  2. "Moving" Frith – 3:55
  3. "Digging For Water" Frith – 2:34
  4. "Portrait I" / "Tam-Tam in Timia" Frith – 3:28
  5. "Le Cirque" Frith – 7:10
  6. "Robert Lax Is" Frith – 0:58
  7. "Gnawa Express Tanger" Frith – 3:01
  8. "Bell Song" Frith – 2:37
  9. "Portrait II" Frith – 1:44
  10. "Ghost Stories" Frith – 6:50
  11. "Portes Ouvertes" Frith – 3:43
  12. "Le Cirque-Oh!" / "Ghost Dance" / "Portrait III" Frith – 10:43
  13. "Le Jour S'Arrache" Frith – 2:59
  14. "Middle of the Moment (title theme)" Frith – 4:32

[edit] Personnel

  • Fred Frith – guitar, bass, violin, keyboards, percussion
  • Fabrizio Appelius – accordion
  • Mikaela Dietl – accordion
  • Tim Hodgkinson – clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Robert Lax – voice
  • Sandra M'Bow – voice

[edit] Tuareg

  • Idaman walat Akhmudan – voice
  • Tshanak ag Abalbal – voice
  • women from the Kel Iforas tribe – vocals, drumming

[edit] Cirque O

  • Josefina Lehmann – violin
  • Johann le Guillerm – accordion, voice
  • Bertrand Duva – Tibetan rattles
  • Attila Zombori – drums, percussion, guimbarde

[edit] Production

  • Peter Hardt – engineer

[edit] Re-issues

  • In 2004 Fred Records issued a remastered version of the soundtrack.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Middle of the Moment. ReR USA. Retrieved on 2007-01-29.

[edit] External links


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Solo discography
Guitar Solos (1974)  •  Gravity (1980)  •  Speechless (1981)  •  Live in Japan (1982)  •  Cheap at Half the Price (1983)  •  Quartets (1994)  •  Eye to Ear (1997)  •  Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (1999)  •  Clearing (2001)  •  Prints (2002)  •  Eye to Ear II (2004)  •  Eleventh Hour (2005)
Music for Dance:  The Technology of Tears (1988)  •  Allies (1996)  •  The Previous Evening (1997)  •  Accidental (2002)  •  The Happy End Problem (2006)
Soundtracks:  The Top of His Head (1989)  •  Step Across the Border (1990)  •  Middle of the Moment (1995)  •  Rivers and Tides (2003)
Composer only:  Pacifica (1998)  •  Freedom in Fragments (2002)  •  Impur (2006)
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Fred Frith discography  •  Fred Records
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