FRENCH FIRTH KAISER THOMPSON Love Larf Loaf CD FRED FRITH HENRY KAISER RICHARD T

Description: Live, Love, Larf & Loaf is a studio album by the English/American experimental rock quartet French Frith Kaiser Thompson, to stretch it out into full form, Fred Frith (Henry Cow, etc), Henry Kaiser, John French (Captain Beefheart, etc) and Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention, much more after). It was the group's first album and was recorded at Mobius Music in San Francisco in March 1987. small review This is an oddball supergroup. You have amazing avant-garde players like Henry Kaiser (guitar) and Fred Frith (here playing bass, like he did with John Zorn's Naked City, though much of his reputation is built on guitar work). You have Richard Thompson, a fantastic singer-songwriter. French I can't comment on, except to say that he can keep up with the others musically and he has a screwball sense of humor. The album veers all over the place, a mixture of (mostly) obscure covers and original songs. There's some jerky, rhythmically complex progressive rock songs, there's a post-punk type song, there's a very silly cover of surfin' usa, there are some very nice instrumental tracks, there's a japanese folk song, there are some great Thompson-style songs, it finishes out with a pretty standard blues track. Thompson does most of the singing, although I think French sings some of the songs. Eclectic and quirky. However, don't buy it if you're hoping to hear Kaiser and Frith play completely freaky oddball stuff. Although the playing is twisted and unusual, it doesn't veer too far from standard rock-and-roll styles. It's more about them just having fun and relaxing.

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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

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