Fred Frith & Núria Andorrà — Dancing Like Dust

Dancing Like Dust brings together highly respected & inventive British guitarist Fred Frith, with contemporary percussionist/ improviser Núria Andorrà. It’s an eleven-track CD album, which sees the pair creating a wonderfully varied selection of avant to atmospheric soundscapes.

The CD appears on Vienna’s Klanggalerie. It’s presented in a simple, yet effective four-panel glossy digipack- on its front cover we have a landscape picture covered in grey boxes, and inside a picture of the pair doing their thing.
 
 
The tracks here have runtimes between just over two and just over eight minutes. With the whole album moving by in an eventful, creative, at times daring & surprising manner. You’ll certainly have to enjoy taut improv/ and or edgy modern composition- but if you do, you’ll have a hell of a time here.
 
We go from the haunting reverb plucks, pick glitching, percussive tone fork ‘n’ fiddle of “Cinclidae”. Onto the sliding metallic saw ‘n’ swoon meets jagged & rapid guitar neck darting of “The Working Week”. We have fading in pitch sweep unease, distant strum, reduced thunder & cascading ball tone atmospherics of “Secret Ground”. With the album playing out the bedded rattle meets backward guitar tone hover and warp of “Return To Tomorrow”.
 
Dancing Like Dust really is an excellent collaboration with both Frith & Andorrà showing both flare and atmospheric depth in their playing. I do hope this is not just a one-off collab, as I’d love to hear these two work together again. To buy a copy of this CD drop by just here