thinking person's guitar hero-from Henry Cow to John Zorn's Naked City, Fred became a key component of the 80s NYC scene

Written for theatre in 1987 using a host of avian and mammalian voices, snippets of unidentified musical material and electroacoustic noise-sculpting - as well as invented and real instruments, all played by Fred. This was a hard time and the mood is intense, lean and not cheerful, though there are some gruesomely cheery inserts. No fat but a lot of meat. It is the 'missing' fourth side of the original double LP Technology of Tears, released in 1986. It was composed for a theatre production, created and directed by Matthew Maguire and Creation Company, which premiered at La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York. The play was described as 'political satire filtered through science fiction and John Webster's Jacobean revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, and coincided with the US interventions in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Track Listing

• Shelter For Them All
• A Deeper Understanding of Conflict
• The Hounds of Democracy
• The Turning of an Hourglass
• Birth of a Rebel
• I am in control
• Your Beautiful Corpse
• The Excellent Hyena
• Nuns don't run roadblocks
• The Old Man Moves a Mountain
• The Wolf Demon (part 1)
• Known knowns and unknowns
• Meditation Upon Propaganda
• Liberty
• Weakness is provocative
• Saracene and Antonio
• The Relentless Landscape
• The Gaze That Sings
• Stopping short of torture
• The Wolf Demon (part 2)
• Rashomon

Additional Details

Label: Fred Records / ReR Megacorp

Genre: Progressive Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 48 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/15/16

UPC: 752725902427