2xLP UK ORIG HENRY COW CONCERTS Prog Psych WYATT

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MID 70's SCARCE UK ORIGINAL 2xLP PROG CLASSIC 

                    HENRY COW

CONCERTS

                      ...UK - Compendium Records - FIDAR 001 

SCARCE mid 70's ORIGINAL in nice gatefold cover...British progressive pioneers HENRY COW were the leading group of the Rock In Opposition* (R.I.O. for short) movement, initiated by their drummer Chris CUTLER. All members of HENRY COW have been involved in collaborations with Canterbury groups and artists at one point or another, and most of them still are. Their music aged amazingly well over the last 35 years due to diverse influences: some of its roots in the Canterbury school, most notably early SOFT MACHINE, other influences (FRANK ZAPPA).

Side 1 of the vinyl is a 23 minute medley recorded in 1975 for legendary DJ John Peel's show. It was winning Peel's 'Rockertunity Knocks' contest that helped Henry Cow secure a record deal in the first place, so it's fitting that this session was included. Rather than simply rattle through a few tracks off their latest album, they arranged a continuous medley with new bridging passages. They start with 'Beautiful As The Moon...' from In Praise Of Learning, here played with even more clarity and intensity than the album version. This leads into a new, different version of 'Nirvana For Mice', the opening track from their first LP. The substitution of Lindsay Cooper's bassoon for Geoff Leigh's sax gives the piece a rather different, less overtly jazzy feel. Then we're into 'Ottawa Song', a version of a song known to some from Matching Mole's Little Red Record. This again was a fitting choice, as Matching Mole were the only other UK prog act of the time to make explicit political statements. Dagmar's interpretation of the lyrics is clearer than Wyatt's, and the arrangement almost makes it into a new song altogether. 'Gloria Gloom' is an otherwise unreleased Cutler/Frith composition, and a reprise of 'Beautiful As The Moon...' brings the whole thing to a close. Clear and concentrated, this was Henry Cow at their most accessible.

Side 2 was tracks 2 and 3, recorded on stage with ex-Soft Machine ex-Matching Mole Robert Wyatt. This segment opens with 'Bad Alchemy' from Desperate Straits, featuring Wyatt and Dagmar duetting to great effect, before a segue into a manically uptempo reading of Wyatt's 'Little red Riding Hood Hit The Road'. Following this is a live version of 'Ruins', probably the most complex of their composed pieces. This version is nothing short of amazing, but the real revelation comes in the closing section of the piece where Dagmar sings Fred Frith's violin part from the studio original.

If record 1 gives a good overview of Henry Cow's skills as composers, record 2 plunges into the altogether more challenging waters of their group improvisations. 'Groningen', Groningen Reprise' and 'Udine' all come  from a Dutch tour where they played as a quartet without Dagmar or Lindsay Cooper. In parts of these pieces you can hear fragments of what would become 'Living In The Heart Of The Beast' on In Praise of Learning. The interplay is often stunning on these tracks. 'Oslo' features the full 6 piece line up in almost half an hours worth of extremely free improvisation, including Dagmar apparently speaking in tongues about half way through. On all the concert recordings Frith's guitar is superb, and he also manages to work in some manic xylophone passages.

Side one – 22:50

1. "Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler)
2. "Nirvana for Mice" (Frith)
3. "Ottawa Song" (Frith, Cutler)
4. "Gloria Gloom" (Wyatt, MacCormick)
5. "Beautiful as the Moon (Reprise)" (Frith, Cutler)

Side two – 25:36

1. "Bad Alchemy" (Greaves, Blegvad)
2. "Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road" (Wyatt)
3. "Ruins" (Frith)

Side three – 29:02

1. "Oslo" (Henry Cow)

Side four – 26:15

1. "Groningen" (Hodgkinson, Henry Cow)
2. "Udine" (Henry Cow)
3. "Groningen Again" (Henry Cow)

CONDITION: The cover gatefold cover is clean, solid "EX" (excellent) wioth no problems anywhere (tight, clean, no seam splitsa, no bends, no writing) highly collectible.

The vinyl all collectible M- top level clean and shiny = playing outstanding...

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