A Place, Like Any Other
Scott Fraser & Bruce Friedman
Analog Arts, 2024
Scott Fraser, guitar
Bruce Friedman, trumpet
A Place, Like Any Other is an atmospheric collection of music by master improvisers Scott Fraser & Bruce Friedman. Each piece is a world of its own where Fraser makes his guitar sound like a symphony. Like Virgil, Friedman’s trumpet guides the listener through the sonic landscape. It’s a trip well worth taking.
Recorded, mixed & masterd by Scott Fraser
All tracks improvised live in concert & in studio
Artwork by Warren Casey
TRACK LISTING
1. Every Day You’re Gone (8:09)
2. With Dust and Leaves (6:05)
3. Everything Was Golden (7:55)
4. Not Falling, Receding (5:43)
5. A Day of Serpents (4:45)
6. The God of Numbers (6:34)
7. Silver (4:01)
8. Theatre of Bones (5:57)
9. Like a Lantern (7:14)
10 Sorrow is the River (10:04)
2. With Dust and Leaves (6:05)
3. Everything Was Golden (7:55)
4. Not Falling, Receding (5:43)
5. A Day of Serpents (4:45)
6. The God of Numbers (6:34)
7. Silver (4:01)
8. Theatre of Bones (5:57)
9. Like a Lantern (7:14)
10 Sorrow is the River (10:04)
BIOS
Scott Fraser began his musical life in rock bands during the 1960s, and has been creating electro-acoustic music since the 1970s, utilizing musique concréte techniques as well as acoustic instruments and synthesis. In recent years he has concentrated primarily on extending the vocabulary of the electric guitar within the format of free improvisation. His recordings have been released on the Fun Music, Artifact, TrancePort, Hypnos, AnalogArts and pfMentum labels. He is also a Grammy-winning recording, mastering and concert sound engineer/producer & has toured world wide since the early 1990’s as sound designer for the Kronos Quartet.
Bruce Friedman is a trumpeter in the Los Angeles area. He has played music in many genres, including Symphonic, Jazz, Free Improvisation, Contemporary Composition (often with graphic notation scores), and pop music. He has studied at the Stockhausen Courses in Kürten with trumpeter Marco Blaauw, Germany; at the VCMI (Vancouver Creative Music Institute, a free improv workshop), as well as with trumpeters Uan Racey and James Stamp. His prior CD releases include “O.P.T.I.O.N.S.” (an improv project for graphic notation symbols, self-organized and interpreted), Notations21, the recently published work on graphic notation in music composition.
He currently is pursuing trumpet projects in the Southern California area which include improvisational elements. He also participates in another improvised music ensemble, Decisive Instant. Additionally he participates in a variety of jazz and free improv projects as they occur or develop. His previous releases on Analog Arts include Edge Study with Motoko Honda on synthesizer, Axes of Symmetry with Base 4, and Live at the Battery Books and Music with the Coldwater Trio.
Bruce Friedman is a trumpeter in the Los Angeles area. He has played music in many genres, including Symphonic, Jazz, Free Improvisation, Contemporary Composition (often with graphic notation scores), and pop music. He has studied at the Stockhausen Courses in Kürten with trumpeter Marco Blaauw, Germany; at the VCMI (Vancouver Creative Music Institute, a free improv workshop), as well as with trumpeters Uan Racey and James Stamp. His prior CD releases include “O.P.T.I.O.N.S.” (an improv project for graphic notation symbols, self-organized and interpreted), Notations21, the recently published work on graphic notation in music composition.
He currently is pursuing trumpet projects in the Southern California area which include improvisational elements. He also participates in another improvised music ensemble, Decisive Instant. Additionally he participates in a variety of jazz and free improv projects as they occur or develop. His previous releases on Analog Arts include Edge Study with Motoko Honda on synthesizer, Axes of Symmetry with Base 4, and Live at the Battery Books and Music with the Coldwater Trio.
