SLAP HAPPY/HENRY COW Desperate Straights LP VIRGIN 1975 UK V-2024 foc FRED FRITH

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DAGMAR KRAUSE, PETER BLEGVAD, ANTHONY MOORE, JOHN GREAVES

CHRIS CUTLER, TIM HODGKINSON, FRED FRITH

plus GEOFF LEIGH, PIERRE MORLEN, LINDSAY COOPER

MUCHSIN CAMPBELL, MONGEZI FEZA, NICK EVANS

Avant-pop cult favorites Slapp Happy formed in Hamburg, Germany in 1972; 

there vocalist Dagmar Krause first met British experimental composer Anthony Moore, 

who had previously issued a pair of solo LPs, Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom 

and Secrets of the Blue Bag, on Polydor. When the label rejected a third Moore record, 

he instead proposed a pop project, recruiting Krause and New York-born guitarist Peter Blegvad 

to form Slapp Happy; recorded with input from members 

of the famed Krautrock band Faust, the trio issued their debut.....

.....The progressive rock genre spawned many groups that became top-grossing arena acts

-- Pink Floyd and Genesis are two -- as well as many who progressed right into obscurity. 

Henry Cow were one of the best known and most widely traveled English bands 

of the progressive era (though only a cult favorite in the U.S. and actually more popular 

in Continental Europe than in their home country), and their music has aged amazingly 

well over the ensuing decades due to the group's diverse influences 

(Oliver Messiaen, Kurt Weill, Frank Zappa, and Soft Machine were a few) and uncompromising creativity 

"DESPERATE STRAIGHTS"

Produced by Henry Cow and Slap Happy with Simon Heyworth

1975     LP     VIRGIN RECORDS      V-2024

MADE IN ENGLAND    

SECOND PRESSING on VIRGIN "Green/Red" LABELS + CIRCULAR "2 Virgins" LOGO

GATEFOLD COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  VIRGIN -  GREEN (Side A) & RED (Side B) LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine only) V-2024 

Catalog on labels: V2024 (V2024A / V2024B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): V-2024-A4

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): V 2024 B-1U     (Etched): PN /3

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights........Made in England"

(on Side A): Anthony Moore is published by Blackhill Music Ltd.

Peter Blegvad & John Greaves are published by Virgin Music (publishers) Ltd.

(on Side B): Anthony Moore & Dagmar are published by Blackhill Music Ltd.

Peter Blegvad & Chris Cutler are published by Virgin Music (publishers) Ltd.

 (on both sides): Produced by Henry Cow & Slap Happy with Simon Heyworth

? Virgin Music Ltd. A.D.1975

On Inside Sleeve: Album arranged & produced by Slap Happy & Henry Cow with Simon Heyworth

at the Manor & Nova Sound studios

On Back Sleeve: ? 1975 Virgin Records Ltd.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HATS - THE OWL - A WORM IS AT WORK

BAD ALCHEMY - EUROPA - DESPERATE - RIDING

Side B: APES IN CAPES - STRAYED - GIANTS

EXCERPT FROM THE MESSIAH - IN THE SICKBAY - CAUCASIAN LULLABY

  grading

RECORD NEAR MINT (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR EX (please, see pictures and read above description)

A surprising team up at the time of its release (1975), Desperate Straights is a surprisingly melodic album, 

light on the art school angst and heavy on the playfulness, which one would hardly 

expect from such determined socialists as these. But here it is: "Some Questions About Hats" 

sounds like a Kurt Weill outtake, "A Worm Is at Work" gallops along with a sweet tune. 

Dagmar Krause remains restrained and not given to flights of horrible fancy. 

"Strayed" is reminiscient of Kevin Ayers's brand of art rock, and most of the songs clock 

in under two minutes. But never fear: the album ends on the eight minute "Caucasian Lullaby," 

a minimal woodwind piece that suddenly bursts into one last jab of Krausian despair....(AllMusic)