| Ayaya Moses | ||||
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | July and November 1996 | |||
| Studio | Studio 12, Maison Radio-Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||
| Genre | • Contemporary classical music • Experimental music • Free improvisation | |||
| Length | 54:29 | |||
| Label | Ambiances Magnétiques (Canada) | |||
| Producer | Hélène Prévost | |||
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Ayaya Moses is a 1997 studio album by the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, an American-based contemporary classical and experimental music guitar quartet comprising Fred Frith, René Lussier, Nick Didkovsky and Mark Stewart. It is their debut album and was recorded in Radio-Canada's Studio 12 at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, seven years after the ensemble was formed in 1989. It was released by Canadian record label, Ambiances Magnétiques.
The fourteen-track album comprises three pieces by external composers and arranged by the quartet, a piece composed by each of the four members of the quartet, and seven short pieces improvised by the group. Lussier's piece includes music he composed for La Manière des Blancs, a film by Bernard Hémond. Frith's track "Freedom Is Your Friends II" is taken from Freedom in Fragments, an album composed by Frith and performed by the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Didkovsky's piece "She Closes Her Sister With Heavy Bones" comes from Their Eyes Bulged With Sparkling Pockets, a larger work he composed for chamber orchestra.[1][2]