Stockholm & Göteborg

Infobox Album | Name = Stockholm & Göteborg
Type = Live album
Artist = Henry Cow


Released = September 2008
Recorded = Gothenburg, May 1975 Stockholm, May 1977
Genre = Avant-progressive rock
Length = 01:03:23
Label = Recommended (UK)
Producer = Henry Cow
Reviews =
Last album = "Henry Cow Box" (2006)
This album = "Stockholm & Göteborg" (2008)
Next album = "The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set" (2008)

"Stockholm & Göteborg" is a live CD by English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, released by Recommended Records in September 2008. The album consists of over an hour of previously unreleased recordings made by Swedish Radio of concerts performed by the group in May 1975 in Gothenburg and May 1977 in Stockholm. The concerts were later broadcast by Sveriges Radio in July 1975 and June 1977 respectfully. The original 8 track and stereo 2 track master tapes were used and non-invasively remixed and remastered for this album by Bob Drake.

This is Henry Cow's first new release in 30 years and the first to include Georgie Born, the band's bassist and celloist from 1976 to 1978.

"Stockholm & Göteborg" is included in Volume 2 of the upcoming "The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set", scheduled for release by Recommended Records in December 2008.

Content

The album consists of three improvised pieces, "Stockholm 1", "Stockholm 2" and "Göteborg 1", and five composed pieces.

Featured on the album is "Erk Gah", a working title of a 17-minute composition by Tim Hodgkinson that was performed live regularly by the band between 1976 and 1978, [ cite web |url=http://calyx.club.fr/bands/chrono/henrycow.html |title=Henry Cow chronology |work=The Canterbury Music Website |accessdate=2008-07-09 ] but never recorded in the studio. [ cite web |url=http://www.ccutler.com/ccutler/bands/group03.shtml#artbears |title=Art Bears |work=Chris Cutler homepage |first=Chris, |last=Cutler |accessdate=2008-07-09 ] (Hodgkinson later recorded it in 1993 as "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" with some of the former Henry Cow members and others, and released it in 1994 on his solo album, "Each in Our Own Thoughts".) Also featured is a never before released Fred Frith composition, "The March", and a cover of Phil Ochs's "No More Songs", one of only two covers ever performed by Henry Cow (the other being "Gloria Gloom" by Matching Mole).

Track listing

#"Stockholm 1" (Born, Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Hodgkinson, Krause) – 6:38
#"Erk Gah" (aka "Hold to the Zero Burn") (Hodgkinson)
#*part 1 – 3:28
#*part 2 – 2:55
#*part 3 – 2:27
#*part 4 – 6:17
#*part 5 – 1:59
#"A Bridge to Ruins" (Hodgkinson) – 5:08
#"Ottawa Song" (Cutler, Frith) – 3:27
#"Göteborg 1" (Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Greaves, Hodgkinson, Krause)
#*part 1 – 6:06
#*part 2 – 8:20
#*part 3 – 2:27
#"No More Songs" (Ochs) – 3:35
#"Stockholm 2" (Born, Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Hodgkinson, Krause) – 6:13
#"The March" (Frith) – 4:15

Recording and broadcast dates

*Tracks 1-3 and 6-8 were recorded for "Tonkraft" by Sveriges Radio at a concert in Stockholm on 9 May 1977 and broadcast on 8 June and 11 June 1977; the programme producer was S. Vermalin.
*Tracks 4-5 were recorded for "Tonkraft" by Sveriges Radio at a concert in Gothenburg on 28 May 1975 and broadcast on 14 July and 17 July 1975; the programme producer was C. Eklund.

Personnel

*Georgie Born – fretless bass guitar, cello (1-3, 6-8)
*Lindsay Cooper – bassoon, flute, recorder, sopranino saxophone, piano (1-2), tapes (7)
*Chris Cutler – drums, electrification (7), piano (5.2)
*Fred Frith – guitar, xylophone, piano (8)
*John Greaves – bass guitar (4-5), voice (4)
*Tim Hodgkinson – organ, alto saxophone, tapes (7)
*Dagmar Krause – voice

Production

*All recordings were edited by Chris Cutler.
*Tracks 1, 2.1, 2.4, 3 and 6-8 were remixed from the original 8-track recording.
*Tracks 2.2, 2.3 and 4-5 were remastered from the original stereo radio tape.
*All remixing and remastering was done by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, 2007/2008.

ee also

*"The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set" (2008)

References

* [http://www.somnius.com/amn/2008/07/08/henry-cow-40th-anniversary-boxed-set/ Avant Music News]
* [http://www.rermegacorp.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RM&Product_Code=RERHCBOXALL&Category_Code=CU Recommended Records]

External links

*amg | id = 10:0xfixzlkldke | label = Stockholm and Goteborg .
* [http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=10621 Stockholm & Göteborg] at SquidCo.