„In brief interviews, Mr. Frith recalls being inspired as a teenager by the rhythm guitar playing on the Beatles‘ records. He rejects self-expression as an artistic ideal and talks interestingly about performing for small audiences and waking them up to the possibilities of what music can be. Mr. Frith is also shown to be a musician whose esthetics, like Mr. Cage’s, are related to environmental concerns. In one scene, he is shown standing on a rocky coastline serenading flocks of seagulls that seem drawn to the birdlike sounds he is creating. Make no mistake: Mr. Frith is no dreamy, new-age nature boy. The black-and-white movie, which was filmed on three continents, also has extended sequences of decaying urban sprawl accompanied by appropriately abrasive sounds.“
(James Holden, NYT, 1992)
Step across the border / Das Porträt des englischen Musikers Fred Frith
ARD-alpha / 24.02.2019, 21:55 Uhr