1991 studio album by Fred Frith and Ferdinand Richard
Dropera
Studio album by
Fred Frith and Ferdinand Richard
Released
1991 (1991)
Recorded
August 1989
Studio
Sound and Vision Studio, Zürich, Switzerland
Genre
Avant-rock
Length
46:03
Language
French
Label
RecRec (Switzerland)
Producer
Raymund van Santen
Fred Frith chronology
Attention Span (1990)
Dropera (1991)
Live Improvisations (1992)
Dropera is a concept album by Fred Frith and Ferdinand Richard, credited as "Fred & Ferd". It was their first collaborative album as a duo and was recorded in Zürich, Switzerland in August 1989. It was released on both LP and CD by RecRec Music in Switzerland in 1991. The album's songs were sung in French and a booklet of the song lyrics in French, German and English accompanied the album.
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