Fred Frith appears on over 600 recordings. This is a selection from bands he was/is a member of, collaborations with other bands and musicians, and his solo recordings. The year indicates when the album was first released. For a comprehensive discography, see the Discography of Fred Frith by Michel Ramond, Patrice Roussel and Stephane Vuilleumier.
Studio albums Guitar Solos (1974, LP, Caroline, UK) Gravity (1980, LP, Ralph, US) Speechless (1981, LP, Ralph, US) Cheap at Half the Price (1983, LP, Ralph, US) Quartets (1994, CD, RecRec, Switzerland) Clearing (2001, CD, Tzadik, US) Prints: Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures, 1987–2001 (2002, CD, Fred, UK) Eleventh Hour (2005, 2xCD, Winter & Winter, Germany) To Sail, to Sail (2008, CD, Tzadik, US) Clearing Customs (2011, CD, Intakt, Switzerland) Guitar Solos / Fifty (2024, 2xLP, Week-End Records, Germany)
Music for Dance The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) (1988, 2xLP, RecRec, Switzerland) Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) (1996, CD, RecRec, Switzerland) The Previous Evening (Music for Dance Volume 4) (1997, CD, Recommended, UK) Accidental (Music for Dance Volume 3) (2002, CD, Fred, UK) The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance Volume 5) (2006, CD, Fred, UK) Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (Music for Dance Volume 6) (2009, CD, Fred, UK) Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (2015, CD, Fred, UK) Propaganda (2015, CD, Fred, UK)
Music for Film The Top of His Head (1989, LP, Crammed, Belgium) – original soundtrack to the film The Top of His Head by Peter Mettler Step Across the Border (1990, 2xLP, RecRec, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Step Across the Border by and Middle of the Moment (1995, CD, RecRec, Switzerland) – original soundtrack to the film Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel Eye to Ear (1997, CD, Tzadik, US) – collection of film and theatre music Rivers and Tides (2003, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany) – original soundtrack to the film Rivers and Tides by Eye to Ear II (2004, CD, Tzadik, US) – music from Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler, Returning Home by Andy Abrahams Wilson, Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen by Petra Mäussnest, and Sideshow by Kristin Varner Eye to Ear III (2010, CD, Tzadik, US) – music from Drei Gegen Troja by Hussi Kutulcan, and Thirst by Deborah Kauffman and Alan Snitow
Composer only Pacifica (1998, CD, Tzadik, US) Freedom in Fragments (2002, CD, Tzadik, US) Back to Life (2008, CD, Tzadik, US)
Live albums Live in Japan (1982, 2xLP, Recommended, Japan) Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986–1996) (1999, CD, I Dischi di Angelica, Italy) Impur II (2009, CD, Fred, UK) Storytelling (2017, CD, Intuition, Germany) All Is Always Now – Live at The Stone (2019, 3xCD, Intakt, Switzerland) Woodwork (2019, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
Composer only Impur (2006, CD, Fred, UK)
Singles "Dancing in the Street" / "What a Dilemma" (1980, 7", Ralph, US) – from Gravity
Box sets Fred and Ralph (1991, 3xCD, RecRec, Switzerland) – Fred Frith releases by Ralph Records Gravity (1980, CD, Ralph) Speechless (1981, CD, Ralph) Cheap at Half the Price (1983, CD, Ralph) The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 1: Rocking the Boat (2021, 9xCD, Fred, UK) Guitar Solos (2002, CD, Fred) Gravity (2002, CD, Fred) Cheap at Half the Price (2004, CD, Fred) Killing Time (2005, CD, Fred) Impur (2006, CD, Fred) Middle of the Moment (2004, CD, Fred) That House We Lived In (2003, 2xCD, Fred) Dropera (1991, CD, RecRec) – bonus CD The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 2: Crossing Borders (2021, 9xCD, Fred, UK) Live in Japan (2010, CD, Fred) Speechless (2003, CD, Fred) Prints (2002, CD, Fred) Step Across the Border (2003, CD, Fred) Impur II (2009, CD, Fred) The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred) Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds (2005, 2xCD, Fred) Helter Skelter (1992, CD, RecRec) – bonus CD (remastered) The Fred Records Story 2001–2020 Volume 3: Stepping Out (2021, 10xCD, Fred, UK) The Technology of Tears (2008, CD, Fred) Propaganda (2015, CD, Fred) Allies (2004, CD, Fred) Accidental (2002, CD, Fred) The Previous Evening (1997, CD, Recommended) The Happy End Problem (2006, CD, Fred) Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air (2009, CD, Fred) Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (2015, CD, Fred) Inimitable – Debates for Ganden [with Amanda Miller] (2020, CD, Fred) – bonus CD (previously unreleased) Live in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers [with Tom Cora and Chris Cutler] (2020, CD, Fred) – bonus CD (previously unreleased)
Collaborations With Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser and Aram Shelton Unexpected Twins (2019, CD, Relative Pitch Records, US)
With Noël Akchoté Réel (1996, 10" LP, Rectangle, France) With Núria Andorrà Dancing Like Dust (2023, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Lotte Anker Edge of the Light (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With ARTE Quartett Still Urban (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland) The Big Picture (2009, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Derek Bailey and Antoine Berthiaume Soshin (2003, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Improvised Music 1981 (1992, CD, MuWorks, US)
With Anne Bourne and John Oswald Dearness (2002, CD, Spool, Canada)
With Anthony Braxton Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 (2006, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Chris Brown Cutter Heads (2007, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Shelley Burgon The Life and Behavior (2025, CD, Relative Pitch Records, US)
With John Butcher The Natural Order (2014, CD, Northern Spy, US)
With John Butcher and Theresa Wong Quintillions Green (2016, FLAC, Otoroku, UK)
With Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer and Angels on the Edge of Time (2015, CD, I Dischi di Angelica, Italy)
With Lol Coxhill French Gigs (1983, LP, AAA, France)
With Chris Cutler Live in Prague and Washington (1983, LP, Recommended, UK) – 1990 CD release retitled Live in Moscow, Prague & Washington Live in Trondheim, Berlin & Limoges, Vol. 2 (1994, CD, Recommended, UK) 2 Gentlemen in Verona (2000, CD, Recommended, UK) The Stone: Issue Two (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
With Chris Cutler and Tom Cora Live in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers (2021, CD, Fred, UK)
With Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio Golden State (2010, LP, Recommended, UK)
With , Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt (2003, CD, Accretions, US)
With Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81 (1982, CT, Floor, Japan)
With Jean Derome, and Myles Boisen All Is Bright, But It Is Not Day (2002, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Fred Frith Michel Doneda (2014, CD, Vand'OEuvre, France)
With Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori Later... (2000, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (1997, CD, Transes Europeennes, France)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis I Dream of You Jumping (2001, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada) Contretemps etc... (2011, CD, In Situ, France)
With Ensemble Modern Traffic Continues (2000, CD, Winter & Winter, Germany)
With Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles Something About This Landscape for Ensemble (2023, LP, Sub Rosa, Belgium)
With , Tom Malmendier and Clara Weil There or Here and That (2020, CD, Eux Sæm, France)
With Janet Feder Ironic Universe (2006, CD+DVD, Recommended, US)
With Hardy Fox A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth (2018, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Evelyn Glennie The Sugar Factory (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
With the Gravity Band Fred Frith and the Gravity Band (2025, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Barry Guy Backscatter Bright Blue (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Tim Hodgkinson Live Improvisations (1992, CD, Woof, UK)
With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill Laswell Meridiem (1998, CD, Materiali Sonori, Italy)
With and Marc Parisotto Cut Up the Border (2020, CD, RogueArt, France)
With Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (2016, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)
With Darren Johnston Devin Hoff, Larry Ochs and Ches Smith Reasons for Moving (2007, CD, Not Two, US)
With Henry Kaiser With Friends Like These (1979, LP, Metalanguage, US) Who Needs Enemies? (1983, LP, Metalanguage, US) With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? (1987, CD, SST, US) Friends & Enemies (1999, 2xCD, Cuneiform, US)
With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart The Compass, Log and Lead (2006, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Hans Koch You are Here (2017, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With and Pink Neon (2026, 2xCD and 2xLP, Galileo Music Communication, Germany/Spain)
With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel Tempted to Smile (2003, CD, Spool, Canada)
With Annie Lewandowski Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (2011, CD, Ninth World)
With René Lussier Nous Autres (1987, LP, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Amanda Miller Inimitable – Debates for Ganden (2021, CD, Fred, UK)
With Helen Mirra Kwangsi Quail (2015, LP, Shhpuma, Portugal)
With Works for Me Should Be the Title (2023, LP, Don't Sit On My Vinyl! / Muzyka z Mózgu, Poland)
With Ikue Mori A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall (2021, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Mózg Injectors Sylvan Trail (2019, 12" LP and CD, Mózg, Poland)
With Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton Voice of America (1982, LP, Rift, US)
With Bob Ostertag and John Zorn Attention Span (1990, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Evan Parker Hello, I Must Be Going (2015, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Francois-Michel Pesenti Helter Skelter (1992, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Matter (2025, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Marc Ribot Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode (1994, CD, Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)
With Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd) Dropera (1991, LP, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Danielle Roger Pas de Deux (2008, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Rusconi Live In Europe (2016, CD, Qilin, Germany)
With Susana Santos Silva Laying Demons to Rest (2023, CD, RogueArt, France)
With Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Lucas N. Niggli, Hans Koch and Peter Kowald Nil (1995, CD, Unit Records, Switzerland)
With Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community) Drift (2008, CD, Poise, Germany)
With Karen Stackpole Nature (2026, CD, Sub Rosa)
With Studio Dan Rocket Science #1 #5 #8 (2021, CD, ROS, Germany)
With Sudhu Tewari and Cenk Ergün Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down (2020, Digital, Carrier Records, US)
With Sudhu Tewari (as Normal) Moving Parts (2023, CD, Fo'c'sle Records, US)
With Toychestra What Leave Behind (2004, CD, S.K., France)
With Benjamin Vergara Fanfarrisimo (2019, LP, Tour De Bras, Canada)
With and Fredy Studer It Rolls (2015, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Michel Wintsch, Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin Whisperings (2002, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With John Zorn The Art of Memory (1994, CD, Incus, UK) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Five (2004, CD, Tzadik, US) The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred, UK) Late Works (2010, CD, Tzadik, US)
With John Zorn, Onnyk and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo Ars Longa Dens Brevis (2000, CD, Allelopathy, Japan)
Bands Henry Cow Legend (1973, LP, Virgin, UK) Unrest (1974, LP, Virgin, UK) Concerts (1976, 2xLP, Caroline, UK) Western Culture (1979, LP, Broadcast, UK) The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box (1991, 3xCD, East Side Digital, US) Henry Cow Box (2006, 7xCD, Recommended, UK) Stockholm & Göteborg (2008, CD, Recommended, UK) The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (2009, 9xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK) The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (2019, 17xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK)
Henry Cow / Slapp Happy Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin, UK) In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin, UK)
Art Bears Hopes and Fears (1978, LP, Recommended, UK) Winter Songs (1979, LP, Recommended, UK) The World as It Is Today (1981, LP, Recommended, UK) The Art Box (2004, 6xCD, Recommended, UK)
Aksak Maboul Un Peu de l'Âme des Bandits (1980, LP, Crammed, Belgium)
Material Memory Serves (1981, LP, Celluloid, France) One Down (1982, LP, Celluloid, France)