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This page currently lists ALL fretless CDs
we can find along with links to our reviews
and external reviews as well.

Any help, additions / corrections / reviews
are, as always, most gratefully accepted.
e-mail us here!


Our album review pages are:
Fretless Tracks / Fretless Jazz Albums / Fretless Compilations
Darby Slick / Ed Degenaro / Erkan Ogur / Evett - Vigroux
Farheed Haque / Fuze / Jazz / Jon Szenics / Luca Formentini
Mahavira / Michael Vick / Ned Evett / Ratko Zjaca / Ron Thal
Tellef Řgrim / Tim Donahue / Timucin Sahin / Tom Baker / Village comments



Compilations :
- Fretless Guitar Masters (2001)

- Village of the Unfretted (2005) comments
offsite reviews at:
www.laguitare.com
Department of Virtuosity

- The Unravelling Begins - GtrOblq.com
fretless tracks from:
Michael Vick / Tom Baker / Pantha & Newbie Brad / Pawel Janowski / Jahloon

- Unplugged and Unfretted (2008) Acoustic Fretless Guitarists

Tim Donahue :
- The Fifth Season (1986, 2006)
- Still Dreaming (1994)
- Marks Mountain (1995, Soundtrack CD)
- Voices In The Wind (1996)
- Into The Light (2000)
- Madmen & Sinners (2004) offsite review at www.rockdetector.com
- EarlyWorks (2006)

Ned Evett :
- Introduction to fretless guitar (1999)
- Circus Liquor (2002)
- iStole (2004)
- Live in Paris, with Jerome Curry, recorded Dec 8, 2001 (Out Soon 2006)
- Live at the Jacksonville Theater (Out Soon 2006)
- Shine Like a Diamond (Promo DVD)
- Middle of the Middle

Franck Vigroux :
~ Les 13 Cicatrices (2002)
~ Lilas Triste (2003)
~ Looking for Lilase (2004)
~ Push the Triangle (2005)
~ Triste Lilas (2005)
~ Fretless Guitar Secrets (Instructional DVD, not yet released)

Evett / Vigroux :
- Evett / Vigroux (2002, 2004)

The Michael Vick Trip :
- Smell La Mitten (2004)
- Hectic-Eclectic (2004) - offsite review at www.guitar9.com
- Free-Master Bass-tion (2003)
~ Dynamic-Intentions with Marginal-Sleep
~ Floating On A Time-Scale Inbetween
- Soft Side Hard Live + (2002)
- Dangerous Demos of an Unfretted Heart (2006)

Michael Vick :
- Inciting-Freedom
- UnFret My Heart (Out Soon 2006)

VVV :
- Fretless Guitar and Bass (2004)
- Fretless Shadows (DVD) (2004, 2005)

WIT'S END :
~ Interjections Parts 1 and 2
- W.E. = MUSIC (1996)


Ed DeGenaro & Friends :
- NAMM bash 2006 (DVD & CD)

Ed DeGenaro & The Powers OF 10 Band :
- Remembering Shawn Lane - Live on Beale St (DVD & CD)

Ed DeGenaro :
- Nude Guitars, Live at the Knit (DVD)
- Live at the Knit (CD)
- Nylon and Steel (CD)
- Dog House (CD 2007 Unfretted Records)
- Less Is Seldom More (CD 2009 Unfretted Records)

BumbleFoot :
~ 9.11

Ron Thal :
~ Uncool (French version)
~ Anthology

Actoon :
- Cemetryland (1999)
- Fretlessguitarland (2007)

Adrian Romero :
- Shirts Against Skins (2003) fretless tracks - Crave, Wake Up!

Albert Dambeck :
- Ver Kompositionen (1995-1999) (fretless upright bass)
- Calligraphy (Fretless Electric Guitar)

Andreas Wahl :
- Experimentle Band

Matthias Muller :
- Bhavan (Andreas Wahl plays fretless guitar)

Andy Summers (The Police) :
~ Driven to Tears (several versions exist, solo is fretless on one of them)

Ataman Quartet :
- Wintersun (2007) Ataman Quintet - Track 4: I Saw Your Face (Fretless)

Barbera T Paras :
- Turn to Run (1987) Single, fretless guitarist Steve ??

Ben Burdick :
- An Eclectic Acoustic Electric Fretless Christmas (2004)
- Fretless Jazz Standards (2007) Ben Burdick Trio

Ben Miller :
- True Son

Charlélie Couture :
~ Double Vue (2004 Wagram) fretless track - Flying Message (mainly rhythm parts)

Chet Atkins :
- Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed at the Bottom Line in NYC (1992, DVD) Nylon fretless track - Summertime


Darby Slick :
~ SandOland (1995) - King of the Fretless Guitar (1998)


Edward Powell :
~ Friedsitar (2000)
- Bluesand (2004)
- Spiritdance (2007)


Erkan Ogur :
- Fretless (1993)
~ Gulun Kokusu Vardi (1998) with Ismail Hakki Demircioglu
~ Hic (1999) with Okan Murat Ozturk
~ Anadolu Besik with Ismail hakki demircioglu
~ Eskiya (2000) solo album
- Fuad (2001) with Djivan Gasparyan
- Yazi Tura OST (2005)

Telvin (Erkan Ogur) :
- Bir Kereye Mahsus


David "Fuze" Fiuczynski & Rufus Cappadocia :
- KiF
~ KiF Express (2008)
- Time Control (2007) Hiromi's Sonicbloom (Fuze plays fretted and fretless tracks)

Fiuczynski / Chambers / Berlin / Lavitz :
~ Boston Tea Party


Fareed Haque :
- The 3 of us

Frank Zappa :
- One Size Fits All (1975) fretless tracks "San Ber'dino" and "Can't Afford No Shoes"
~ Zoot Allures (1976) fretless track "The Torture Never Stops"


Gary Moore :
~ A Different Beat (199?) fretless track "Go On Home" offsite review at CIAO!


Greg Segal :
- A Man Who Was Here (1985) fretless track - King of Illusion
- Darkland Express, pt.2 (1993) fretless track - L.A.River Rafting
- An Awareness Of Frameworks (2004) fretless track - The Place of Three Roads
- Standard (2004) fretless track - Neal Smith's Invisible Trike, pt. 2
- The Old Familiar Place (2003) fretless track - Processes Unknown
- Asleep or Somewhere Else (2003 with Eric Wallack) fretless tracks - Zap'n the Cap'n / Faro Inspects the Borders
- The Eye That Shines In Darkness (2003)
- In Search Of The Fantastic (2002)

Greg Segal / Jugalbandi :
- Bid For Legitimacy (2003) - fretless track - Mona Greets Everyone With Chest Pain

Gregsky :
~ Pulse (2004 Cristal records) fretless tracks - Afrodizyack, Yvonne Princesse de Bourgogne, Danish Jungle, In a Noisy way
~ Villa Mystique (2005 Cristal records) fretless tracks -Panamanathan en Chelie's, Sat A Lite Skye

Gunnar Backman :
A list of recordings where Gunnar has played fretless guitar:

~ Christy O'Leary & Bert Deivert - SONG'S SWEET CARESS
~ Paban Das Baul / Jonny Wartel more info
~ The "LITTLE NOISES" CD by Marcia Pelletiere produced by Margaret Dorn
~ David Härenstam Band - "What happened in Fremantle?"
~ Tors Hammare - "Art Species and Other Creatures"
~ Tors Hammare -"THE SAMI OUT TAPES"
~ Brak(E)man -Yeah Guitar!
~ Tinnitus Therapi Trip "You've Lost Your Audience"
~ Tinnitus Therapi Trip "Tarekt"
~ Brak(E)man-Unbelievabilly


Itsek Shetrit :
- Don't Fret (Fretless Mood) (2002)


Jahloon :
- The Vicar's Whistle (Out 2010)


Jim Goodin :
~ Found (2007)
~ Chinapainting - "Trick of Amethyst" (2007)
- Skipping the Light (2008)


Jim Kimsey :
- Don't Fret
- PerXactly


Jon Szenics :
- Fretless Days Gone By (2006)


John Cale :
- Stainless Gamelan: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume III (1965 fretless track - Stainless Steel Gamelan) - offsite review of this compilation
Unfretted's review of Stainless Steel Gamelan


John Etheridge :
~ Ash (1994, re-released 2006?)
~ I Didn't Know (2004 - Dyad024) available at his website www.johnetheridge.com
- Secret Island - Theo Travis (1996 - 33 records) John plays on 5 of Saxophonist Theo's tracks and fretless on Full Moon Rising.


John Frusciante :
~ Blood Sugar Sex Magik - (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - fretless track; Mellowship Slinky in B Major


John McLaughlin :
- Industrial Zen (2006) - fretless track; Mother Nature

Jurica Jelic :
- Impressions

KastningSiegfried :
- Scalar Fields


King Crimson :
- Three Of A Perfect Pair (reissue 2005) Adrian Belew plays fretless guitar on most tracks.

Kittyhawk :
~ Kittyhawk (1980) Guitarist Daniel Bortz used a fretless on this album

Kraft Quartet :
- Nervous Boogie (2008)

Loren Claypool :
- One Feather Shy (2008)


Luca Formentini :
- Subterraneans
- Tacet (2007)


Mahavira :
- Halflight (2010)


Meantone :
- Original Graveyard Blues

Giusto :
- Fretless Resonator


Michelle Webb :
~ Prepaired Guitar Works (1997)
~ Dotsavant (2000)
~ Screams from the Ceiling (2000)
~ Michelle Webb Live (2005)
~ Figures at the base of a Crucifixion (2006)
- This One Goes to Eleven - 2007 Norcal Noisefest. Track 9: MIchelle Webb - Shelby's Lung Collapses


Morgan Kraft :
~ Don't Fade Away (2006)


Neil Haverstick :
- The Gate (1993)
- Other Worlds (1999) Fretless track - Digeridon't
- If The Earth Was a Woman (2003)
- Iraq (2006, Single)
- Stick Man (2005) No fretless but a great microtonal album.
- Mysterious Female (2007) Track 2 Iraq & Track 10 Silver Woman - Fretless


Newbie Brad and Pantha :
- Pantha and Newbie Brad

Newbie Brad :
- Echolalia, Echolelia
- Uptown, Downtown, Outside The International 9-11-05
- Sherbet
- Preoccupation
- Dorothy Brought The Watchtower
~ Greenwood Suite (Tiny amount of fretless guitar, software orchestral)
~ Katrina and Rita, The Death Of Jazz And Blues (Software orchestral, no fretless)
~ Feast Of All Holy Martyrs (Software orchestral, no fretless)


Nguyęn Lę :
- Purple


Paul Livingstone :
- Turbans

Pat Metheny :
~ Imaginary Day - offsite review by George Graham
~ Trio Live - (2000 double CD) fretless 12 string track; Counting Texas

Randy Roos :
~ Mistral (1978)


Ratko Zjaca & Stanislav Mitrovic :
- Shades of Spirit


Sándor Szabó / Balázs Major Duo :
- Amusing (2006)

Sándor Szabó :
- Földközelség - Nearness Of Earth
- Acoustic Poetry (2005) offsite review at www.momus.hu


Sanjay Mishra :
- Chateau Benares (2006) offsite review (Washington Post) at www.mishra.net/CB_WP.gif


Scott Sandvik :
~ Open Field (2000) - fretless and slide acoustic guitars


Simone Massaron :
- Breaking News


Tellef Řgrim :
- Some Dodos Never Die
- Wagon 8 (2007)


Tim Mirth :
~ (Out Soon 2006)


Timucin Sahin & the Rare Falcons :
- Slick Road (2003) offsite review at www.allaboutjazz.com

Timucin Sahin Trio :
- Window for my Breath (2006)


Tom Baker :
- Sounding The Curve (2003)
- What Remains... (2005)

Tom Baker Quartet :
- Look What I Found (2007) CD Baby Fretless tracks: 2 (waiting room), 4 (through a glass abstractly), 8 (free steps), 9 (metamorphosis happens) are on the fernandes glass, the rest are on a fretted telecaster.
Offsite review (Earshot Jazz Magazine) at www.tombakerquartet.com


Wonka :
- A Collaboration
- Wonka Live at Eyedrum Atlanta


Yannick Robert :
~ Dix cordes de nuit
- Vaci Utca


Yan Vagh :
- U & Eye


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NOTES

We only review what we have heard / used / seen.
CDs preceded with a "-" are in the Unfretted library,
those preceded with a "~" we have yet to aquire.

We always indicate the place we purchased the item, if not you can
presume it was kindly donated. All reviews should have the initials or
name of the reviewer, once again this is a personal viewpoint and we like
to think unbiased. We will gratefully accept reviews and credit the
reviewer and happily, gratefully, receive any donated content.

Reviews are split into sections; CDs (this page) and Gear Reviews (instruments).

We welcome to our review board Ogami Musashi, who lives in France. Reviews marked OM are from Ogami and reviews marked JB are from the webmaster.



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