"For the past quarter century the varied recordings of peripatetic musical renegade Fred Frith have provided a far-flung tour of the worldwide avant-garde fringe. On Traffic Continues, he composes for and plays guitar with Ensemble Modern, the venerable 21-piece new music assemblage based in Frankfort, Germany. This handsomely packaged Winter & Winter CD is one of the strongest statements of Frith's career, a finely balanced work that contains concert hall and street sensibilities in equal measure, preserving the full vitality of the composer's idiosyncratic musical personality. There are two lengthy pieces on the recording, the 29-minute 'Traffic Continues' written in 1996 and the 35-minute 'Traffic Continues II: Gusto (for Tom Cora)' written in 1998 as an homage to the late Tom Cora, the phenomenal cellist who was a member of the avant rock band Skeleton Crew with Frith and harpist Zeena Parkins. ..."
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YouTube: Traffic Continues: First Riddle, Traffic Continues-Ensemble Modern-Traffic III / Traffic I, One Never Knows Do One? Adage Coda, Long Fade, II "Gusto": XII. No Convenient Time
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