Closer to the Ground

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Closer to the Ground
An aerial photograph of a country side, with the letters "Fred Frith Trio" at the center top, "Fred Frith Jason Hoopes Jordan Glenn" at the center bottom, and "Closer to the Ground" at the center right
Studio album by
Fred Frith Trio
ReleasedSeptember 15, 2018 (2018-09-15)
RecordedJanuary 13–15, 2018
StudioSharkbite Studios, Oakland, California
Genre
Length50:56
LabelIntakt (Switzerland)
ProducerFred Frith, Intakt Records
Fred Frith Trio chronology
Another Day in Fucking Paradise
(2016) 		Closer to the Ground
(2018) 		Road
(2021)

Closer to the Ground is a 2018 studio album by the Fred Frith Trio, a San Francisco Bay Area based experimental music and free improvising group featuring Fred Frith, Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn. It is their second album and was recorded in Oakland, California in January 2018, and released in September 2018 by Intakt Records in Switzerland. It follows on from their first album, Another Day in Fucking Paradise that was released in June 2016.