| Traffic Continues | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Fred Frith and the Ensemble Modern |
| Cover: | Traffic Continues.jpg |
| Recorded: | 14–17 December 1998 Das TAT, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt |
| Genre: | Contemporary classical music, Jazz |
| Length: | 64:00 |
| Label: | Winter & Winter 910 044 |
| Producer: | Stefan Winter |
| Chronology: | Fred Frith |
| Prev Title: | Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | 2 Gentlemen in Verona |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Traffic Continues is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith featuring the Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, which was released on the Winter & Winter label.[1] The album features a suite dedicated to cellist Tom Cora built around samples of his playing from Etymology (Rarefaction, 1997).
In his review for AllMusic, Dave Lynch called the album "one of the strongest statements of Frith's career, a finely balanced work that contains concert hall and street sensibilities in equal measure". PopMatters observed "this is adventurous and often heady music that is not for all tastes. But then, it’s not really meant to be either since this is music that sets out to challenge what is accepted as much as what is acceptable".[2] The All About Jazz review noted "Traffic Continues is a fine and noteworthy edition to Fred Frith’s extensive catalog and ongoing legacy. Besides possessing a remarkably individualistic voice as a powerful and quite influential technician, Frith’s perceptive intellect shines forth on this multifaceted and curiously interesting recording".[3]
All compositions by Fred Frith
Traffic Continues
Traffic Continues II: Gusto (For Tom Cora)
Ensemble Modern