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He primarily performs on Guitar , producing an innovative series of experimental '' Guitar Solos '' albums during the 1970s . He also plays Bass Guitar , Violin and Xylophone . He was a founder member of British Avant-garde Progressive Rock bands Henry Cow and Art Bears . While living in New York City he formed two Improvising groups in the early 1980s , Massacre and Skeleton Crew . He has collaborated with Robert Wyatt , Brian Eno , Lars Hollmer , The Residents , Lol Coxhill , John Zorn , Bill Laswell , Derek Bailey , Rova , Attwenger and others. Frith has also made two records with experimental group French Frith Kaiser Thompson (consisting of John French , Frith, Henry Kaiser , and Richard Thompson ).

In 1990, German film makers , Cyro Baptista , Iva Bittova , René Lussier and Tom Cora , to name a few.

He is a professor of the Music Department at Mills College , Oakland, California .


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