Editing Fred Frith (section)

===Post-Henry Cow===
While recording Henry Cow's last album, differences emerged between the group members over the album's content. Frith and [[Chris Cutler]] favoured song-oriented material, while Hodgkinson and [[Lindsay Cooper]] wanted purely instrumental compositions. As a compromise, Frith and Cutler agreed, early in 1978, to release the songs already created on their own album, ''[[Hopes and Fears (Art Bears album)|Hopes and Fears]]'', under the name [[Art Bears]] (with [[Dagmar Krause]]). The instrumental material was recorded by Henry Cow on ''[[Western Culture (album)|Western Culture]]'' later that year, after which the band split. The Art Bears trio continued purely as a studio group until 1981, releasing two more albums, ''[[Winter Songs (Art Bears album)|Winter Songs]]'' in 1979 and ''[[The World as It Is Today]]'' in 1981.

During this time Frith also released ''[[Gravity (Fred Frith album)|Gravity]]'' (1980), his second solo album, recorded at Norrgården Nyvla in [[Uppsala]], Sweden with Swedish group [[Samla Mammas Manna]], and at the Catch-a-Buzz studio in [[Rockville, Maryland]] with United States band [[The Muffins]]. It showed Frith breaking free from the highly structured and orchestrated music of Henry Cow and experimenting with folk and dance music. "Norrgården Nyvla" was also the title of one of the tracks on the album and is considered one of Frith's most recognisable tunes.