Fred Frith has been a pioneer of the extended electric guitar for nearly 60 years, greatly expanding the possibilities of musical instruments and art forms, and continues to have a great influence on musicians and guitarists around the world to this day. He will be performing in Japan for the first time in about 8 and a half years, since 2016. On this visit, he will perform a solo performance with a screening of the video work "rereading forest" by photographer and filmmaker Ayako Mogi at the "SOLO" performance on January 18th, and a "DUO" performance on January 17th with Seiichi Yamamoto, who has been active in many bands and units such as "Omoide Hatoba", "Rashinban", "MOST", "ROVO", and "BOREDOMS", and has also worked on film music and writing as a solo artist, and is attracting many people as a solitary artist.

"If you've never seen Fred perform a solo improvisation, you should. You should do whatever it takes to see it live, because it's one of the wonders of the world."
-Marc Ribot

FRUE presents
Fred Frith Live 2025

DAY 1 "DUO"

Friday, 17th January at BAROOM, Tokyo
Fred Frith / Seiichi Yamamoto
Open: 18:30 Start 19:30 Adv. 6,500yen
*All seats reserved / 1 drink included
*Please pay a separate drink fee (￥1,000) at the reception.

BAROOM
6-10-12 1F, Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
https://baroom.tokyo/

*1 Drinks will not be available after the show has finished, so please arrive early.
*Seats will be assigned in advance on a purchase basis, and reserved seats will be handed out at the reception desk from the time the doors open on the day of the event.
*If you are late for the start of the show, you will be asked to wait in the lobby until between songs and may be seated in a different seat than the one assigned to you or have to stand.
*There is no cloakroom inside the venue.
*If advance tickets are sold out, tickets will not be available for sale on the day of the event.
*We do not accept refunds or cancellations due to customer reasons. Thank you for your understanding.

Frith
Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar, a style of electric guitar playing that employs unconventional and original techniques.
He learned songwriting with Henry Cow, honed his songwriting skills with Art Bears, developed his talents as a multi-instrumentalist with Skeleton Crew and wowed audiences with Massacre, and has been in one or more bands since 1964, and continues to do all of them today.
During that time his works have been performed by a wide variety of groups and artists, including baroque and contemporary ensembles, string quartets, chamber orchestras and the ever-expanding field of semi-popular, if not popular, music.
Fred has also composed extensively for film and dance, and has taught improvisation for many years at Mills College in Oakland, California, and at the Conservatory of Music in Basel, Switzerland.
His lifelong passion for improvisation has led him to collaborate with artists who wouldn't necessarily call themselves improvisers, such as Brazilian drummer Maria Portugal, cellist Paula Sanches and bricochet extraordinaire Sudhu Tewari.
Fred is also the subject of the multi-award winning film "Step across the Border" by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.