Middle of the Moment (soundtrack)

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Middle of the Moment
Soundtrack by Fred Frith
Released	1995
Recorded	North Africa and Europe, early 1990s
Genre	Experimental rock, Electronic music
Length	1:00:40
Label	RecRec (Switzerland)
Producer	Fred Frith
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Piero Scaruffi (4/10) link
Fred Frith chronology
Quartets (1994) Middle of the Moment (1995) Allies (1996)
Fred Records chronology
Speechless (2003) Fred Frith (ReR/FRO 04) Middle of the Moment (2004) Fred Frith (ReR/FRO 05) Cheap at Half the Price (2004) Fred Frith (RēR/FRO 06)
Re-issues
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]

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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.

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Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Tuareg 2.2 Cirque O 3 Production 4 Re-issues 5 References 6 External links

[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

[edit] External links

• Middle of the Moment at Allmusic
• Fred Frith discography
• artfilm.ch. Middle of the Moment

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