Traffic Continues

Traffic Continues is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith featuring the Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, which was released on the Winter & Winter label.[1] The album features a suite dedicated to cellist Tom Cora built around samples of his playing from Etymology (Rarefaction, 1997).

Traffic Continues
Studio album by
Fred Frith and the Ensemble Modern
ReleasedMarch 14, 2000 (2000-03-14)
RecordedDecember 14–17, 1998
Das TAT, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt
GenreContemporary classical music, Jazz
Length64:00
LabelWinter & Winter 910 044
ProducerStefan Winter
Fred Frith chronology
Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire
(1999)		 Traffic Continues
(2000)		 2 Gentlemen in Verona
(2000)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
All About Jazz[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Dave Lynch called the album "one of the strongest statements of Frith's career, a finely balanced work that contains concert hall and street sensibilities in equal measure".[2] PopMatters observed "this is adventurous and often heady music that is not for all tastes. But then, it’s not really meant to be either since this is music that sets out to challenge what is accepted as much as what is acceptable".[4] The All About Jazz review noted "Traffic Continues is a fine and noteworthy edition to Fred Frith’s extensive catalog and ongoing legacy. Besides possessing a remarkably individualistic voice as a powerful and quite influential technician, Frith’s perceptive intellect shines forth on this multifaceted and curiously interesting recording".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Fred Frith

Traffic Continues

  1. "Inadvertent Introduction" – 0:53
  2. "First Riddle" – 2:30
  3. "Traffic II" – 4:25
  4. "Third Riddle" – 2:13
  5. "Lourdement Gai" – 1:06
  6. "Traffic III/Traffic I" – 2:17
  7. "Freeway/Shadow of a Tree on Sand" – 5:28
  8. "Fragile Finale" – 9:55

Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora)

  1. "Introduction/Limbo" – 1:55
  2. Adage A/At Your Earliest" – 4:45
  3. "Gyrate/Adage B" – 3:25
  4. "Not If I See You First" – 1:17
  5. "Any Other World" – 1:27
  6. "A Good Top Tongue" – 0:16
  7. "Nose at Nose" – 0:56
  8. "Will Cast Some Light On" – 1:32
  9. "Adage D/Neither Fire Nor Place" – 0:45
  10. "Monkey Lens Dipthong String" – 3:33
  11. "Howdywhoola" – 0:17
  12. "No Convenient Time" – 3:30
  13. "One Never Knows Do One?/Adage Coda/Long Fade" – 11:34

Personnel

Ensemble Modern

References
  1. Ramond, Michel; Roussel, Patrice; Vuilleumier, Stephane. "Discography of Fred Frith". New York Downtown Scene and Other Miscellaneous Discographies. Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. Lynch, Dave. Fred Frith and Ensemble Modern – Traffic Continues > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  3. Astarita, G., All About Jazz Review, June 1, 2000
  4. Johnson, A., PopMatters Review, accessed December 17, 2014
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