Lol Coxhill
Frog Dance (2LP)
LabelImpetus RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Gatefold sleeve. Insert included.
Two tracks on this double album last half a second each. Clapperboard opens side one, Edited Half Handclap opens side two, and the same set also makes room for a twenty-eight-minute improvisation. Lol Coxhill assembled it from music he wrote for Frog Dance, a film by Richard White funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain, and added recordings he had made between 1980 and 1985; Impetus issued the result in 1986.
His soprano saxophone keeps very different company from track to track. The Johnny Rondo Trio, with David Holland on piano and Colin Wood on cello, plays the title piece; a small string group conducted by Charles Barber backs Confidential Report (Including Personal Statement); the residents of the London Zoo birdhouse get twelve seconds of their own. Steve Miller of Delivery plays piano on the twenty-five-minute Chance Including Chocolate Field, and the fourth side belongs to The Recedents, Coxhill's trio with Mike Cooper on guitar and Roger Turner on percussion.
Release notes
The album is a compilation of material made for the film "Frog Dance", directed by Richard White and funded by The Arts Council of Great Britain. In making the compilation, Lol Coxhill added further music recorded between 1980 and 1985. The trio of Coxhill, Holland and Wood is credited as The Johnny Rondo Trio. The trio of Coxhill, Turner and Cooper is credited as The Recedents. Tracks A1 and B1 are both half a second in duration.
| A1 | Clapperboard | 0:00 | |
| A2 | Liquid Reflections | 2:49 | |
| A3 | Scottish Eagle And Other Sounds | 0:08 | |
| A4 | Doodlesop | 5:40 | |
| A5 | Sea Lions | 0:04 | |
| A6 | Pedestrian Infiltrations | 2:20 | |
| A7 | Confidential Report (Including Personal Statement) | 3:37 | |
| A8 | Distant Slumbers | 2:17 | |
| A9 | Hardly Dawn | 1:26 | |
| A10 | Alto Funerale | 2:24 | |
| A11 | Fidget | 4:58 | |
| A12 | Caucasian Splinter Mystery | 1:48 | |
| A13 | Frog Dance | 2:03 | |
| B1 | Edited Half Handclap | 0:00 | |
| B2 | Apres | 4:38 | |
| B3 | Zoo Collective | 0:12 | |
| B4 | Chance Including Chocolate Field | 24:59 | |
| C1 | Archive Projections | 17:45 | |
| C2 | Deja Vu | 11:34 | |
| D1 | Deja Vu Tu | 28:07 | |
| D2 | End Of Play | 0:28 |
- John Watkiss
- Artwork [Front Cover]
- Lol Coxhill
- Electronics (B4, C2), Soprano Saxophone, Design, Liner Notes, Voice (C2)
- Ray Staff
- Lacquer Cut By
- Tim Hodgkinson
- Mastered By
