03 Ahead In The Sand

Track listing

All tracks composed by Fred Frith except where noted.
Side one

01    "Kick the Can (part 1)" – 2:19
02    "Carnival on Wall Street" – 2:51
03    "Ahead in the Sand" – 3:16
04    "Laughing Matter" / "Esperanza" – 7:47
05    "Women Speak to Men; Men Speak to Women" (Frith, Curran) – 5:39

Side two

06    "Spit in the Ocean" – 2:17
07    "Navajo" – 3:05
08    "Balance" – 5:04
09    "Saving Grace" – 1:57
10    "Speechless" – 3:05
11    "Conversations With White Arc" (Frith, Laswell) – 1:14
12    "Domaine de Planousset" – 2:59
13    "Kick the Can (part 2)" – 2:14

Bonus tracks on 1991 CD re-issue

14    "The Entire Works of Henry Cow" – 1:00
15    "So Schnell Ich" (Frith, Laswell, Maher) – 3:25
16    "I'm Still Here and I Know What Time It Is" (Frith, Curran) – 1:06
17    "No More War" (Frith, Gore) – 4:46
18    "Typical American Family" – 1:01
19    "Dig" – 3:07

Personnel
Side One

    Fred Frith – guitar, violin, mellotron, organ and bass guitar (track 1), voice (track 3)
    Etron Fou Leloublan:
        Guigou Chenevier – drums, tenor saxophone and voice (track 3)
        Bernard Mathieu[16] – soprano and tenor saxophones, voice (track 3)
        Ferdinand Richard – bass, guimbarde, voice
        Jo Thirion – organ, harmonium

Guests

    Tina Curran – recorders, unusual edits
    Roger Kent Parsons – bagpipes (track 4)
    Bob Ostertag – field tape recordings

Production

Recorded at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August 1980.

    Francois Riether – engineer (France)
    Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland)
    Robert Vogel – engineer (Switzerland)

Side Two

    Fred Frith – guitar, violin, keyboards, bass guitar (tracks 3,5,8), drums (tracks 2,3), voice
    Massacre:
        Bill Laswell – bass guitar
        Fred Maher – drums

Guests

    Steve Buchanan – snake saxophone (track 2)
    George Cartwright – alto saxophone (tracks 1,2,4)
    Mars Williams – baritone saxophone (tracks 1,2,4)
    Tina Curran – recorders, bass guitar (tracks 2,7)

Production

Recorded at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August, 1980. Tracks 1, 4 and the end of track 2 were recorded live at a Massacre concert at CBGB in New York City, April 1980, and were later altered and added to in Switzerland; track 6 is an unaltered improvised piece from the same concert.[9]

    Charlie Martin – engineer (USA)
    Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland)
    Robert Vogel – engineer (Switzerland)

Bonus tracks on 1991 CD re-issue

    Fred Frith – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, tapes (tracks 14,17), drums (track 16), noise (track 16), voice (track 17,18), homemades (track 18), effects (track 19)
    Bill Laswell – bass guitar (track 15)
    Fred Maher – drums (track 15)
    Tina Curran – voice (track 16)
    Steve Kretzmer – drums (track 17)
    Tetsuto Koyama – bass guitar (track 19)
    Miyamoto – drums (track 19)
    Masami Shinoda – alto saxophone (track 19)
    Chie Mukai – kokyu (track 19)
    Kenichi Takeda – taisho koto (track 19)
    Keiji Haino – voice (track 19)
    Tenko Ueno – voice (track 19)