Nice one. I'm not all that familiar with Henry Cow or Fred Frith, but
am most interested now. I would guess that "Life on Venus" be the
hommage though.

Robbie

--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "altmark47" <robin_ward@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Maybe some of you have come across the guitarist (and violinist,
> keyboardist, etc, etc) Fred Frith over the years. I suppose for want
> of a better term that he could be called avant garde, experimental
> .... He's probably best known, at least in the UK, for his work with
> Henry Cow, but he also made a number of "solo" albums (two classics
> from the late 1970s and early 1980s are "Gravity" and "Speechless")
> and many other albums in collaboration with other musicians. It's
> sometimes pretty difficult and elusive stuff to get accustomed to (as
> he writes in the notes to "Speechless", the theme of the album is
> "remaining always on the edge of being understood"), but if one does
> manage it it's well worth the reward....
>
> Anyway, out of curiosity I looked up his official website the other day:
>
> http://www.fredfrith.com/
>
> and found out to my surprise that he's recently put out an
> all-acoustic CD called "To Sail, To Sail", which evidently includes a
> hommage to Robbie Basho. I've not been able to get hold of a copy yet,
> but have found out that the track listing is as follows:
>
> Because Your Mama Wants You Home
> Weather Gauge
> Reconstructed
> Life on Venus
> Mondays
> Life-Enhancing Interior
> First Light
> Jeratch Orchestra
> Wrong Door
> Circuit Breakers and Fuses
> Slightest Shiver
> Sheep's Head, 1963
> Life by Another Name
> Dog Watch
> Hopscotch Horizon
> King Dawn
>
> I don't recognise any of these as being a Basho title, so I wonder
> which of them is the actual hommage ....
>
> Anyone else come across the CD, I wonder?
>
> - Robin
>